jordan retro 7 Punk Pioneer Ari Up Dies at 48

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While the apex of Up's career was shortlived, having released only two albums in the three years the Slits' were active, their 1979 album, Cut, was enough to resonate with future generations, inspiring monumental musical figures like Courtney Love, Bjork and the infamous riot grrrl movement of the 1990s.
In 2007 [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the band opened for Sonic Youth at New York's McCarren Park Pool and toured Australia and Japan. In 2009, the band finally released an LP called Trapped Animal and continued to tour. The band's final video for their song "Lazy Slam" will be posthumously released given Up's request.
After the band's 1981 release Return of the Giant Slits and their breakup in 1982, Up joined the New Age Steppers of English record label, On-U Sound [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], before putting out her first solo effort, Dread More Dan Dead and reuniting the Slits in 2005 with the band's bassist, Tessa Pillott. Upon releasing their 2006 EP Revenge of the Killer Slits, featuring former Sex Pistols' members Paul Cook and Marco Pirroni, the band played the States of Mind Tour, marking 25 years since their first public performance in the United States.
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Arianna "Ari Up" Forster, co-founder of the '70s British punk band The Slits, has died on October 20, 2010 of what her stepfather and PiL frontman John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon calls "a serious illness." She was 48 years old.
Upon teaming up with drummer Palmolive in 1976 at the tender age of 14, the Slits were born. Despite enduring a string of replaced bandmates, the Slits became one of the most influential bands in music. Nurtured by punk extraordinaires the Clash, the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols, the Slits revolutionized music with their racy, feminist attitude and experimental, avant-garde sound.
Their first and most reputable album [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Cut, garnered attention not only from their catchy reggae groove, but from their risque album cover, depicting the group half-naked muddied-up and robed in nothing but loinclothes. The album went on to make Observer Music Monthly's Top 100 British Albums list, ranking in at number 58.