Amid the concurrent punk explosions in New York and London, two respective bands engaged in a rivalrous tussle with a diss track each.

The FT’s list spanned some of the world’s biggest music cities, from New York and Paris to Sydney. Several places in the UK, ...

Punk Britannia Punk Britannia is a three-part series that explores the British musical landscape of the mid to late Seventies, from early pub rock and the first stirrings of a new immediacy on the ...

But never fear. That absence is about to be corrected. The Slits came out of London in the burgeoning days of early punk rock with a sound that was different from what most of the boys were doing.

London's first live punk rock venue), Llygod Ffyrnig (their NCB single was the first Welsh punk record), The Tunnelrunners, Victimise and the Screen Gemz. None of these released more than a couple ...