PETE Shelley – the singer and guitarist with the Buzzcocks – has died of at the age of 63 of a suspected heart attack. Here’s what you need to know about the musician and the band that had such and ...

Among the slew of punk-rock revivalist nostalgia that's been re-packaged, re-mastered and realigned on CD racks across the land over the past few years, one band has been mysteriously airbrushed out.

LET’S start with the Simple Minds story. It comes in the middle of Barry Adamson’s new memoir Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars. It’s 1979 and Adamson is playing bass with Magazine, the ...

Howard Devoto fled The Buzzcocks just in time to miss their success, though his work with Magazine suggests his ambitions were never commercial. This remastered two-disc compilation includes all ...

A wag in the music press once commented that Howard Devoto - formerly of the Buzzcocks and Magazine - was the only person to emerge from the British punk scene who would ever have used the word ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I am angry, I am ill and I’m as ugly as sin” is one of the greatest opening lines in rock music. The rest of “A ...

Magazine, who I last saw on the opening night of the Secondhand Daylight tour in Brighton, when they played as far as I know for the first time the truly scary “Permafrost”, a song Howard Devoto spent ...

THERE'S famous for 15 minutes and there's being offered 15-minute chats with Kajagoogoo, relentlessly all summer, a PR onslaught intensified by the e-mails now appearing in bold red print. Meanwhile, ...

It’s 40 years since the Manchester band’s first release reshaped pop music. With no industry support, they pressed and sold the EP themselves, and kickstarted a revolution In January 1977 a young punk ...

No one expected the influential post-punk British band Magazine to reunite, but their triumphant 2009 return proved Morrissey and Radiohead had been right all along. Now they have released their first ...

The influential musician has died at the age of 63 following a suspected heart attack PETE Shelley – the singer and guitarist with the Buzzcocks – has died of at the age of 63 of a suspected heart ...

Post-punk trailblazers Magazine have shed some light on why the long-disbanded group have decided to reunite for a series of UK shows next year. Put simply, the band were made an offer they couldn't ...