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 ...

Do you ever just feel like you're tired of people dying? Your friends die and your heroes die and it's just a sh** reminder that one day we're all going to die. Last night we learned that Arianna ...

Ari Up, the front woman for the British band The Slits, has died at the age of 48. Stepfather John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols, broke the news on his official blog. “John ...

The Slits frontwoman Arianna 'Ari-Up' Forster has died at the age of 48. An announcement was made on the official website of John Lydon, whose wife Nora Forster was Ari-Up's mother. The statement read ...

Ari Up, leader of the pioneering post-punk band The Slits, would have turned 49 on Jan. 17. She died of cancer last October (read All Songs Considered contributor Carrie Brownstein's remembrance here) ...

The Slits reunited in 2006 and released Trapped Animal, their first album in 25 years, in 2009. “We had the privilege over the last couple of years getting to know Ari both professionally and as a ...

On Oct. 20, the music world was stunned when John Lydon posted on his website that Ari Up, singer of the legendary punk/post-punk/dub powerhouse the Slits and daughter of his partner, Nora Forster, ...

Ari Up, one of the most inimitable figures in music, passed away last night at the age of 48. In addition to being one of the founding members of The Slits, Up was an outspoken and entertaining ...

Additionally, there’s a new album of outtakes and rarities, Avant Gardening, featuring “version excursions and unreleased tracks from the vault 1980 – 1983,” including tracks from a thought-lost 1983 ...

Ari Up, the dreadlocked lead singer of the Slits, the first all-girl U.K. punk band, died Oct. 20 in England. She was 48. A posting on the website of Sex Pistols vocalist John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten ...