Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How do you make a documentary about your own mother? And how do you tell that story when you grew up in an unstable environment, ...
In 2016, five years after the death of Poly Styrene—the punk legend and trailblazing frontwoman of the short-lived but fiercely beloved band X-Ray Spex—her daughter, Celeste Bell, finally received the ...
You still have a few days left of the MKE Film Festival to catch "Poly Styrene: I am a Cliche" about a trailblazing, black, female punk icon in the 1970s. Here are a few of our thoughts about the film ...
New documentary Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché looks and the life of the late singer of iconic UK punk band X-Ray Spex. Here’s the synopsis: Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour in the UK to front ...
Although the face of punk rock is often represented by white males and their rage and nihilistic attitudes, it was actually a black woman at the forefront of shaping punk’s political consciousness—and ...
“Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard/But I think "oh bondage, up yours!” Those are the opening lyrics to the 1977 song “Oh Bondage Up Yours!” by the British punk rock group ...
Celebrating 25 Years of J Dilla's 'Welcome 2 Detroit' On 'Welcome 2 Detroit,' the legendary rapper/producer did more than just announce himself, he painted a picture of his city using a palette from ...
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. sales firm Utopia has picked up world rights excluding the UK to biographical doc Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché, narrated by Ruth Negga (Loving). The doc, which will unspool at the ...
Celeste Bell, the daughter of X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene, opens her documentary “Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliche” with a simple question: Was her punk rock icon mother a good parent? It comes as no ...
At the beginning of the documentary Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, Celeste Bell, the daughter of former X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene, says: “My mother was a punk rock icon. People often asked me if ...
The 12 near-perfect songs on “Germfree Adolescents,” the 1978 debut album by X-Ray Spex, clock in at just over a half hour, but the shock waves they detonated keep rippling out 44 years later. One of ...
This is not a banal or mundane fake-objective music history doc: it's an almost real-time chronicle of a daughter coming to grips with a mother's legacy. Go to Full Review Tim Stegall Austin Chronicle ...