On a quiet block just west of Halsted Street in Bridgeport, a former funeral home now houses a collection of memories — both physical and emotional — so niche, so random, it almost shouldn’t exist.

Young Marble Giants wasn’t around for long, but they did leave their mark on post-punk music history. Colossal Youth is a minimalist approach to the genre, without losing any of the elements that make ...

Thirty years ago this week, The Smiths released their self-titled debut. It arrived at a time when every bass groove, dissonant guitar and echo-ey drum machine rhythm that would become identified with ...

“Left all alone, I’m with the one I most fear,” Adrian Borland sang on “I Can’t Escape Myself,” the first and best song on The Sound‘s 1980 debut album Jeopardy, and as conveyed in the 2016 Adrian ...

Scene changes in rock ’n’ roll are reactionary. In the early 2000s, nü-metal bands like Limp Bizkit and Korn dominated American radio stations. Across the pond, the end of Britpop had birthed safer ...

Three or four decades after its peak, post-punk means a lot of different things. What denotes “post-punk” now? Is it the pointed guitars? The chugging rock rhythms? The sarcastic speak-sing? The arty ...

The post-punk conference hosted by Leeds’ Performance and Cultural Industries Unit took place over a day in early September, with Paul Morley, pioneer and proud rehabiliator of the first person ...

Ari Up, leader of the pioneering post-punk band The Slits, would have turned 49 on Jan. 17. She died of cancer last October (read All Songs Considered contributor Carrie Brownstein's remembrance here) ...

Strange Passion consists of tracks from Irish post-punk, DIY, and electronic musicians circa 1980-83. Lovingly pulled from rare vinyl and cassette releases by Dublin DJ Darren McCreesh, the collection ...