Rock and roll has Sun Records. Indie has Stiff. Everything released prior to October 1976 -- your Ramones, Iggy and the Stooges -- can be considered proto-punk, much as everything prior to Elvis ...

Founded in 1976, STIFF RECORDS was at the heart of the new wave, bringing the world artists as diverse as Elvis Costello, Kirsty MacColl and Ian Dury and what is generally regarded as the first ever ...

At 82, Dave Robinson's lifelong commitment to music shows no sign of slowing down as he helps bring live music to war-torn ...

Stiff Records HQ, London, 1977. Piles of Pink Floyd and Roy Harper posters are dumped near the toilet. Beside a sink a designer toils away, cutting and pasting. In the basement, staff work in almost ...

"If it ain't Stiff, it ain't worth a fuck," declared the most notorious of Stiff Records' slogans. Be Stiff reminds that, at the pioneering UK label's zenith, that was likely true. The brainchild of ...

Next month’s How To Buy features Stiff Records, home to such immortal ‘70s hits as Nick Lowe’s So It Goes, Elvis Costello’s Watching The Detectives and Wreckless Eric’s (I’d Go The) Whole Wide World.

The Big Stiff Box Set anthologizes Stiff Records' legendary nine-year run, and includes more than its share of incredible tracks, both well-known and waiting to be discovered. Among the artists ...

Simply sign up to the UK companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The publishing catalogue of Stiff Records, the pioneering UK independent label behind acts including Elvis Costello ...

It was the quirky catchphrases leaping out of the pages of the weekly music press, the rude and irreverent slogans adorning T-shirts, badges, posters, sleeves and other types of merchandising that ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Adverts, a glorious mess of a punk band with a great pop sensibility but possessing limited musical capabilities, spat out a catchy rocker called ”One Chord Wonders” in 1977. Sang T.V. Smith: ”I ...

The story of inspirational independent Stiff Records has been MALCOLM WYATT’s music book of 2014. He spoke to author Richard Balls about this legendarily chaotic yet influential label. Did you know ...