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  • New Release Round-up: Forge Your Own Slits

    This week, we feature a batch of reissues and new albums that hone in on the groove, hearty listenin

  • THE SLITS ALBUM ‘TRAPPED ANIMAL’ OUT NOW – PLAYING LA, SAN FRANCISCO + NYC IN DECEMBER

    THE SLITS ALBUM 'TRAPPED ANIMAL' OUT NOW - PLAYING LA, SAN FRANCISCO + NYC IN DECEMBER The Slits wil

  • "Typical Girls? The Story of the Slits" by Zoe Street Howe

    I've loved the Slits for a few years now, not as many as I should have, because I was a late come

  • free music friday: the slits

    The Slits 'Ask Ma' In 1979 The Slits released their legendary album Cut, a bracing assault of raw an

  • Photograph of the day

    Envelope please Explanation? No band ever was more squarely at the intersection of punk and reggae t

    • Biography The Slits

    The Slits
    The Slits are a punk rock band. The quartet was formed in 1976 by members of the bands The Flowers of Romance and The Castrators. The members were Ari Up (Arianna Forster) and Palmolive (Paloma Romera, who later left to join The Raincoats), with Viv Albertine and Tessa Pollitt replacing founding members Kate Korus and Suzy Gutsy. Palmolive was replaced by male drummer Budgie (aka Pete Clarke), formerly of The Spitfire Boys and later to join Siouxsie & the Banshees. Career At their outset, the Slits played a brand of brash, fun, snotty, catchy punk rock naturally suited to supporting The Clash on their 1977 White Riot tour along with the Buzzcocks and the Subway Sect (documented both on- and offstage by Don Letts in The Punk Rock Movie). As also captured on a legendary Peel Session, the Slits' originally extremely raw and raucous live sound was subsequently cleaned up and considerably polished by the time

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