Topic: Lydia Lunch
From the mid-'70s through the mid-'80, the New York's music scene enjoyed one of its periodic creative peaks. At the epicenter of this sonic maelstrom was Blank Tapes, the Chelsea studio founded by Bob Blank in 1975. From Milton ...
The Goth movement has taken on many forms over the past decade as different types of music, books and movies helped to inspire a merging of fashions. Victorian Goth Victorian Goths wear clothing inspired by the melancholy age of the 1800s when ...
From the mid-'70s through the mid-'80, the New York's music scene enjoyed one of its periodic creative peaks. At the epicenter of this sonic maelstrom was Blank Tapes, the Chelsea studio founded by Bob Blank in 1975. From Milton ...
Recent books on New York's No Wave movement of the late '70s have rekindled interest in that brief, brutal period, when skinny, art-damaged kids were the scariest gang in town. Lydia Lunch's Teenage Jesus and the Jerks (or a reasonable ...
An integral part of the freewheeling Native Tongues collective (along with De La Soul and the Jungle Brothers), the Queens trio-rappers Q-Tip and Phife Dawg and DJ-producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad-ushered in hip-hop's creative glory days in the late '80s and early ...
No Wave heroine and eternal teenage-vampire diarist Lydia Lunch once said " " If you believe that, then Major Stars will make for pretty boorish company. But in this case-well, it holds true here, but at least Major Stars are at the acme of ...
Is it weird that today's NYC doesn't have a band nearly as savage as Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, none that even approximate the group's icily antagonistic stance toward its audience and surroundings? Lydia Lunch formed Teenage Jesus in ...
After "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go"-the dorkiest pop debut of 1984, if not ever-Michael matured quickly, crafting a catalog of brilliant singles, handling much of the writing, arranging and producing himself. While Jordan has played alongside some giants of ...
In its salad days at the end of the '70s, the London art-punk band unleashed a classic triptych of albums-Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154-charting a swift and unforgiving progression that would be impossible in today's more rigid climate.. The band ...
As popular music moved toward rock and soul in the early 1970s, Bette Midler-who had come to New York from Hawaii in 1965-emerged from the steam of the gay Continental Baths on Broadway and 74th Street to remind us that there was ...
