Tag: Zoe Howe

Watch: Trailer for 'Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché' — crowdfunded doc on X-Ray Spex singer

Watch: Trailer for ‘Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché’ — crowdfunded doc on X-Ray Spex singer

The makers of a planned documentary about the late X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene today launched a crowdfunding campaign to help pay for the film, and debuted a (very early) trailer for the project, which they hope will hit theaters in November 2018. Watch the trailer here.

'Barbed Wire Kisses': Zoe Howe's Jesus and Mary Chain biography due out in May

‘Barbed Wire Kisses’: Zoe Howe’s Jesus and Mary Chain biography due out in May

Originally due out last October, “Barbed Wire Kisses” — a 272-page biography of The Jesus and Mary Chain by music journalist and author Zoë Howe — is now set to be published in the U.S. and U.K. on May 19, but the paperback will be available a full month early, on Record Store Day, in the U.K.

'Barbed Wire Kisses': New Jesus and Mary Chain biography due next year

‘Barbed Wire Kisses’: New Jesus and Mary Chain biography due next year

The story of The Jesus and Mary Chain — famous for 15-minute concerts and marrying squalling guitar noise with sweet ’60s pop on their iconic 1985 debut Psychocandy — will be told in “Barbed Wire Kisses: The Jesus and Mary Chain Story,” an biography due in October.