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, with a fractured relationship? That’s the challenge that Celeste Bell ...

New documentary Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché looks and the life of the late singer of iconic UK punk band X-Ray Spex. Here’s the synopsis: Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour in the UK to front ...

If you’re not familiar with Poly Styrene, otherwise known as Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, then now is a good time to get to know one of punk's most radical women. The frontwoman of seminal band X-Ray ...

You still have a few days left of the MKE Film Festival to catch "Poly Styrene: I am a Cliche" about a trailblazing, black, female punk icon in the 1970s. Here are a few of our thoughts about the film ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the beginning of the documentary Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, Celeste Bell, the daughter of former X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene, says: “My mother was a punk rock icon. People often asked me if ...

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 ...

Former X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene has passed away aged 53. Poly – real name Marian Joan Elliott-Said – was diagnosed with cancer in February, but still released the solo album Generation Indigo in ...

I have a hunch. It’s the same reason Styrene wasn’t part of my punk starter kit when I was a pre-teen. Pop-punk was my gateway, and I memorized every Blink 182 album and the words to Green Day’s ...

Poly Styrene, born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, died Monday after recent surgery failed to slow the progress of breast cancer that had spread to her lungs and spine. Her planned comeback album, ...

The Quietus is deeply saddened to learn that Poly Styrene, singer with the X-Ray Spex, has been diagnosed with cancer. A statement has been issued, which says: "It comes as a huge shock to all those ...