Ashley, as terms and phrases change over time, and since I’m old and decrepit, I thought your headline was urging Warren to bang this nerd. Read more

Jesus, these two guys side by side on split screen - it’s like staring into a douchebag sun. So painful. Read more

I know he’s a trash bag but I can’t help it, I think Travis is hot.  I have had these shameful thoughts since high school, people.   Read more

Looking for someone who wears size 12 to split a pair of the Satan shoes and holy water shoes, so we can wear one of each on each foot. Read more

I legitimately would’ve bought a pair had they not sold out. I think its awesome and hilarious when something as “blasphemous” as this gets under peoples skin so easily. People were up in arms with Nike overnight, even though Nike didn’t even produce these (they’re customs). Read more

“You’re too big!” Read more

I needed this today. thank you!
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Sometimes, at my lowest points in life, a bunch of horny people come along and write erotic fanfiction about beached container ships, and my hope is restored. Read more

Sure online banking is nice, but this is the kind of shit that the internet was made for. Read more

Check out Death.

This is a wonderful write up, thank you, Ashley! I discovered X-Ray Spex in my early teens by way of riot girl and, more specifically, Kim Gordon’s “other” band Free Kitten. I grew up in a small town with not much access to interesting music, and I relied on mail order catalogs and bugging my parents to find record… Read more

There is a movie from 1981 about the Sex Pistols tour in the US but has a small piece with X-Ray Spex in it. Also has a very young Billy Idol with Generation X before he broke big on his own.

I am an old and I was probably made aware and loving X-Ray Spex by 1981, the year I graduated high school. Poly’s voice and the lyrics and the production of Germ-Free Adolescents was so much BIGGER and BETTER than just dude punk.

(If I don’t link it correctly just an old episode of the BBC show Arena called ‘Who Is Poly Styrene’.)

Did you do it for fame? Read more

I have always been huge into punk female bands, and riot Greek music and absolutely love the x-ray specs. I had no idea poly styrene was black. Thank you for this story. Read more

One thing I’ll say - I knew the bad brains were important, but as a young punk in the late 80s, the only thing in print by them were there later metal albums, which I wasn’t interested in. I only heard their debut in the 2000s when it became more widely available. Same with Germ Free Adolescents. It wasn’t readily… Read more

I came to X-Ray Spex as a teen punk myself in the mid 80s, and Germfree Adolescents has been my favorite early punk album for a long time. Even back then, she was being whitewashed. Read more

WHEN CAN I SEE THIS STATE SIDE! Read more

See also: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the black woman who invented Rock and Roll. Read more