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 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 ...

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 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, 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 ...

Vocalist Ari Up, of British all-girl punk band The Slits, has died aged 48 following a "serious illness", her stepfather John Lydon has announced. The death of the singer, real name Arianna Forster, ...

Ariane "Ari Up" Forster of The Slits has passed away at 48. Ari Up formed The Slits when she was 14, in 1976. After The Slits split in 1981, she moved with her husband and twin children to jungle ...

Tessa Pollit has confirmed that her Slits bandmate Arianna 'Ari-Up' Forster died of cancer. The bassist told NME that Ari-Up had not wanted the public to know of her illness before she passed away ...

John and Nora have asked us to let everyone know that Nora’s daughter Arianna (aka Ari-Up) died today (Wednesday, October 20th) after a serious illness. She will be sadly missed. Everyone at JohnLydon ...

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