• Inside the Go-Go’s vicious, drug-fueled ride to fame

    Inside the Go-Go’s vicious, drug-fueled ride to fame

    The Spice Girls and the Pussycat Dolls would be nothing without the Go-Go’s. Formed in Los Angeles in 1978, they were an all-women band that, over just seven years, wrote and performed some of the best remembered songs of the 1980s: “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed” and “Vacation.” All unforgettable. No all-girl …
  • Green Day frontman’s son issues statement on sexual misconduct allegations

    Green Day frontman’s son issues statement on sexual misconduct allegations

    Joey Armstrong, the son of Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, has addressed accusations of sexual misconduct by a fellow musician. Armstrong, 25, drummer for punk rock band SWMRS, was accused of emotional abuse and sexual misconduct by Lydia Night of LA band The Regrettes in a statement posted to Instagram Monday. “What I actually …
  • Motörhead to release massive ‘Ace of Spades’ 40th anniversary box set

    Motörhead to release massive ‘Ace of Spades’ 40th anniversary box set

    Motörhead’s commercial breakthrough, “Ace of Spades,” will be the subject of a massive reissue this fall with two previously unreleased live albums and a clutch of alternate versions of the album’s songs. The group is previewing the collection with a previously unheard, gritty live version of the ripping title track recorded at Belfast’s Whitla Hall …
  • Iconic punk label Dischord Records makes entire catalog free online

    Iconic punk label Dischord Records makes entire catalog free online

    Record stores may be closed right now, but one legendary punk purveyor just made its entire discography free to stream. Washington, DC-based indie music label Dischord Records, founded in 1980, has made its full catalog available for free on Bandcamp in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. And while streaming is free on Bandcamp, higher …
  • The punk-rock style legacy of Trash and Vaudeville’s Jimmy Webb

    The punk-rock style legacy of Trash and Vaudeville’s Jimmy Webb

    Iggy Pop borrowed his pants. Beyoncé’s mom bought a studded jacket off him for her daughter’s tour. And when Debbie Harry needed someone to zip her into thigh-high boots, he was the man for the job. Jimmy Webb, who died this week at 62 from cancer, made his name outfitting rock royalty. An eccentric scenester …
  • Jimmy Webb, beloved eccentric of NYC’s Trash and Vaudeville shop, dead at 62

    Jimmy Webb, beloved eccentric of NYC’s Trash and Vaudeville shop, dead at 62

    Jimmy Webb, a downtown fixture and enthusiastic salesman and buyer at iconic East Village rocker fashion haven Trash and Vaudeville, has died, his longtime friends confirm. He was 62. “We are all going to miss our wonderful friend Jimmy Webb,” Debbie Harry, legendary Blondie frontwoman and Webb muse, 74, told The Post. “There goes a …