The prospect of experiencing Public Image Ltd.’s landmark 1979 post-punk album Metal Box (aka Second Edition) live was tantalizing, even if it were just PiL bassist Jah Wobble and a pick-up band, 45 ...

Former PiL bassist, post punk icon and general cool cat Jah Wobble is set to release Everything is Nothing, his new album with his ever-morphing, genre-enveloping combo Invaders of the Heart on August ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jah Wobble. Born in Stepney, London, in 1958 and coming of age in the ‘70s, John Joseph Wardle was born to play punk rock, most ...

Read tributes to Levene from Jah Wobble, Thurston Moore, Andy Bell, Anton Newcombe, Adrian Sherwood and more. Watch a trailer for post-punk doc ‘Rip it Up & Start Again’ ft Raincoats, PiL, Throbbing ...

In retrospect, the ’70s United Kingdom punk movement seems like a spontaneous flourishing of mass creativity. That’s partly accurate, but in truth something simpler helped provoke punk: boredom — with ...

“It’s not a band, it’s a company,” sneered John Lydon (the former lead singer of the Sex Pistols) to TV talk-show host Tom Snyder in 1980. The band/company in question was Public Image Limited; its ...

Jamaican reggae legend Horace Andy started recording in the late '60s, and he released the classic debut album Skylarking in 1972. For the past few decades, however, Andy has been best known as a ...

Jah Wobble started his career at the top of the postpunk heap, playing colossal reggae-influenced bass lines for Public Image Ltd. when he was just barely out of his teens. Things fizzled out fairly ...

PJ Higgins too has been around the block a few times. She blossomed from the same milieu that built Wobble’s post-PiL career, a less celebrated peer to Natacha Atlas on that happily nameless ...

Jah Wobble is back on stage with the Invaders Of The Heart after a 20-year hiatus but ever since his first bass playing in Public Image Limited in 1978, he has never really been away. Eclecticism was ...