Donna Matthews is in a bit of a rush. She had to dash to a drop-in centre for the homeless in King's Cross, London, where she volunteers once a week, to tell them that she can't make it this week. It ...

Fans of ’90s UK shoegaze and indie take note: Miki Berenyi of Lush has formed a new band called Piroshka which also features KJ McKillop of Moose, Justin Welch of Elastica, and Michael Conroy of ...

The UK band Elastica released one self-titled album of ridiculously catchy, close-to-perfect new wave in 1995. Then, they took five years to record The Menace, the pretty-good follow-up, and promptly ...

She accused Frischmann of being “inhuman” in driving Elastica ever on. I was in the front row at that final show, at which the band blazed through their album under 20 minutes. They were divine. They ...

How one era-defining classic—Elastica’s Britpop-bombing 1995 debut—spawned another: M.I.A.’s Arular, which turns 10 this year. Elastica died without incident—no dramatic onstage announcement, no ...