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 ...

CLEVES, Ohio — A rail car in the Cleves and Whitewater Township area began leaking styrene on Tuesday, prompting evacuations and the closure of roads and businesses in the area amid safety concerns.

Poly Styrene performing with X-Ray Spex at England’s Roxy Club in 1977. Photo: Gus Stewart/Redferns The first eleven seconds of X-Ray Spex’s debut single, from 1977, rank among the most memorable punk ...

"Possibly carcinogenic and should be investigated more closely." For forty years, this has been the conclusion of researchers who have been unsure of whether there is an increased risk of cancer ...

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 ...

WHITEWATER TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WXIX) - Styrene, a toxic flammable chemical leaking from a railyard in western Hamilton County is widely used to make plastics and rubber. Those products are used to ...

“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 ...

WHITEWATER TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WXIX) - More residents are filing lawsuits seeking class-action status against multiple companies after a railcar in their community leaked the toxic and highly flammable ...

As federal officials investigate the leak of styrene from a rail car near Cleves, one University of Cincinnati expert says such toxic chemical leaks are likely to happen more often. That's because oil ...

Her punk-rock self-examination bests hippie-style narcissism. Ahem, Neil and Joni. Poly Styrene’s voice — a siren of joy and alarm — reaches into the millennium with a lesson for us all in the ...

IT'S NOT EVERY DAY in the chemical industry that a potential new process for making a commodity chemical comes along and is called a breakthrough. But that's what some chemists are saying about a ...

In this new documentary, Poly Styrene’s daughter grapples tenderly with the legacy of her punk rock mother. By Lisa Kennedy When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our ...