Sci-fi stories paired with Pasternak’s drawings Twilight of Echelon Twilight of Echelon book launch McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park location (1120 Grant Ave.) Saturday, 7 p.m. Free ...

FORTY years after it started darkening the nation’s mood, the weight of EastEnders’ misery finally got to a suicidal Phil Mitchell last week, when he started talking to a pile of clothes. Whether ...

With Mick Jones and Topper Headon in their ranks, The Clash were an exceptional force in UK punk. Without them, they became nothing more than imitators.

It stands to reason then that the Wallflowers have covered songs by a number of rock 'n' roll greats over the years, both ...

ECHO Chris Beesley reflects on David Moyes' pre-match press conference for Goodison Park's final Merseyside Derby ...

In all of the interminable books, memoirs, articles and TV documentaries contemplating punk rock, there’s one thing they all seem to agree upon: that punk killed progressive rock. “Almost overnight, ...

The award to the late Prince was accepted by his niece. Also speaking on his behalf were four of Prince’s bandmates, and his ...

According to Kim Gordon, women are "natural anarchists" because they are hard-wired to fight from the off, which filters into many musicians' art.

We all know that Prince was a musical genius, but at the Recording Academy ’s Special Merit Awards on Saturday (Feb. 1), Jimmy Jam, formerly of The Time, told of other keys to Prince’s success – he ...

Last week he announced plans to sell G-A-Y Bar; the area’s strict licensing, Nimby residents and Soho ‘losing its queer identity’ among the reasons why. The bar’s sister club, G-A-Y Late, shuttered in ...

The Clash's Joe Strummer went to art college in Newport before he made it big. And one of the houses he lived in, on Pentonville near the railway station, has a plaque commemorating this.

(Lead singer Joe Strummer died in 2002 at the age of 50.) In the place of the three surviving members, Public Enemy rapper Chuck D. accepted the honor. After noting some of the group’s career ...