In 1979, Siouxsie & The Banshees came back from the dead. Abandoned mid-tour by disgruntled band members, they recruited innovative drummer Budgie and virtuoso guitarist John McGeoch – and recorded a ...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I'm reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1979, l-r: Steven Severin, John McKay, Siouxsie Sioux and Kenny Morris - Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty ...

A Banshees album celebrating all things witchy, macabre, and otherworldly in the autumn months may not have required the keenest imagination to dream up. This is, after all, the group who made their ...

The Banshees sounded stronger than ever, but in 1982 the band was a mess. Before the sessions for the new record even began, there was a shake-up. Manager Nils Stevenson, Sioux’s one-time lover, ...

Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Cure's Lol Tolhurst, Siouxsie and the Banshees' Budgie in the 1980s. (Illustration: Yahoo News / Photo: Getty Images) "Before ...

Siouxsie and the Banshees have always defied simple categorization. Of course, that doesn’t mean critics and audiences haven’t tried to pin them down. “We were always lumped in with groups that called ...

Back in 1987, Siouxsie & the Banshees released their version of Iggy Pop‘s “The Passenger” as a single from their covers album Through the Looking Glass. It was an alt-rock and college radio hit in ...

Siouxsie Sioux evolved out of Sex Pistols fanaticism to form seminal post-punk, art rock, gothic powerhouse Siouxsie and The Banshees, and their fourth record, Juju, is the point where it all hits ...

From the late ‘70s to the early ‘80s, singer Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees had gradually and gracefully evolved from an edgy U.K. post-punk outfit to an elegant gang of goth avatars. But after that, ...

Sheila Rock didn’t think she was going to create some of the most iconic images of the singer Siouxsie Sioux, but fate had other plans—and those images can now be seen in a new book: Siouxsie, ...