"The EDM phenomenon-- not the genre, but rather the mass events born of it-- is the sad expression of a generation for whom music is no longer culture or art, but just another consumer good...
"I view anger not as an outrageously violent act but actually as a tool of discovery."
At nearly 60, John Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten is no less acerbic than he was as the 21-year-old from North London shout-singing his caustic anti-sermons as the vocalist for the Sex Pistols...
Public Image Ltd have a new album on the way, What The World Needs Now..., which will be out September 4 via PiL Official. The band made the album at Steve Winwood's Wincraft studio in the Cotswolds' and you can stream opening cut "Double Trouble" right now...
With so much trash talking, it's hard to know when to take Lydon seriously (could his theory be true that one of Sid Vicious's drug debtors planted a knife on him and framed him for the killing of Nancy Spungen...
John Lydon's second memoir, Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored was released last year in the UK and will get a North American release on April 28 via Dey Street Books...
John Lydon w/ PiL at Hammerstein in 2012 (more by Greg Cristman)
Jesus Christ Superstar, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's famous rock opera that's been around for over four decades, is returning to the road for a 50+ tour of the US and Canada in June, July and August...
Since we last spoke, official word came back regarding Ari Up's untimely passing: it was cancer. In her memory and the memory of the tunes she left behind, Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg is hosting a show on January 16th called "Ari Up Punky Reggae Birthday Party" featuring appearances from members of The Slits, The Slackers, PiL, as well as Neneh Cherry and many others...