The 12 near-perfect songs on “Germfree Adolescents,” the 1978 debut album by X-Ray Spex, clock in at just over a half hour, but the shock waves they detonated keep rippling out 44 years later. One of ...

In 2016, five years after the death of Poly Styrene—the punk legend and trailblazing frontwoman of the short-lived but fiercely beloved band X-Ray Spex—her daughter, Celeste Bell, finally received the ...

Although the face of punk rock is often represented by white males and their rage and nihilistic attitudes, it was actually a black woman at the forefront of shaping punk’s political consciousness—and ...

WHITEWATER TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WXIX) - Styrene, a toxic flammable chemical leaking from a railyard in western Hamilton County is widely used to make plastics and rubber. Those products are used to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How do you make a documentary about your own mother? And how do you tell that story when you grew up in an unstable environment, ...

Poly Styrene performing with X-Ray Spex at England’s Roxy Club in 1977. Photo: Gus Stewart/Redferns The first eleven seconds of X-Ray Spex’s debut single, from 1977, rank among the most memorable punk ...

UPDATE 9/25/2024: The evacuation notice was lifted just before 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Some residents in Whitewater Township were asked to evacuate due to a leak of styrene in the ...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a critical public health issue, with its prevalence expected to rise sharply worldwide. Recent evidence points to environmental pollution, specifically exposure to ...

“Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard/But I think "oh bondage, up yours!” Those are the opening lyrics to the 1977 song “Oh Bondage Up Yours!” by the British punk rock group ...

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. sales firm Utopia has picked up world rights excluding the UK to biographical doc Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché, narrated by Ruth Negga (Loving). The doc, which will unspool at the ...