Looking back, it all seems awfully po-faced. It was not inapprop-riate in some ways, but these days I try not to look desperately earnest and solemn in photos." Howard Devoto, punk pioneer, post-punk ...

PETE Shelley – the singer and guitarist with the Buzzcocks – has died of at the age of 63 of a suspected heart attack. Here’s what you need to know about the musician and the band that had such and ...

Among the slew of punk-rock revivalist nostalgia that's been re-packaged, re-mastered and realigned on CD racks across the land over the past few years, one band has been mysteriously airbrushed out.

It's the punk reunion that a lot of people have been waiting a quarter-century for. This week, the founder members of seminal Manchester band the Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto, under the ...

One of the most important – and underrated – English post-punk bands will reunite for two gigs next year. Magazine, the group led by Buzzcocks co-founder Howard Devoto, will play in London and ...

LET’S start with the Simple Minds story. It comes in the middle of Barry Adamson’s new memoir Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars. It’s 1979 and Adamson is playing bass with Magazine, the ...

A wag in the music press once commented that Howard Devoto - formerly of the Buzzcocks and Magazine - was the only person to emerge from the British punk scene who would ever have used the word ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I am angry, I am ill and I’m as ugly as sin” is one of the greatest opening lines in rock music. The rest of “A ...

No one expected the influential post-punk British band Magazine to reunite, but their triumphant 2009 return proved Morrissey and Radiohead had been right all along. Now they have released their first ...

The influential musician has died at the age of 63 following a suspected heart attack PETE Shelley – the singer and guitarist with the Buzzcocks – has died of at the age of 63 of a suspected heart ...

Post-punk trailblazers Magazine have shed some light on why the long-disbanded group have decided to reunite for a series of UK shows next year. Put simply, the band were made an offer they couldn't ...