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A Beginner’s Guide to no wave, New York’s middle finger to the world
More often than not, the official history of New York’s late ‘70s scene ends in the scuzzy confines of CBGBs, and the birth of American punk (or New Wave, to use its proper nomenclature). Equally...
View ArticleDoug Aitken’s travelling art experiment Station To Station comes to London...
LoneLady, Nozinja, Boredoms and more on the bill. The Barbican is set to stage the only international stop of Station to Station, US multimedia artist Doug Aitken’s ambitious experiment in spontaneous...
View ArticleThe month’s best reissues: Grace Jones’ tropical heat, Shinichi Atobe and...
Thanks to the graft of reissue labels and canny collectors, there’s an embarrassment of neglected, forgotten or misunderstood riches being unearthed week by week. The volume of new-old music doesn’t...
View ArticleSuicide frontman Alan Vega dies at 78
Alan Vega, frontman of electronic pioneers Suicide, has died in his sleep aged 78. Former Black Flag singer Henry Rollins, a friend of Vega’s, broke the news on his website with a statement from Vega’s...
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Suicide’s Alan Vega was the unwavering punk prophet of doom we deserved
Punk trailblazer, nostalgia refusenik, hard-boiled rebel, secret romantic. Mikey IQ Jones looks at the incomparable legacy of Suicide frontman Alan Vega, who died last week aged 78. “I used to tell...
View ArticlePeanut Butter Wolf pays tribute to musicians who died in 2016 with two mixes
Originally published by The Vinyl Factory Including some lesser-knowns. It feels like all we did was write about musicians dying last year but before we close the door on 2016, Stones Throw boss Peanut...
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Suicide’s Martin Rev announces new album Demolition 9
Hear two of the albums 34(!) tracks now. Suicide’s Martin Rev has announced his new solo album, Demolition 9, will be released this spring. It is his follow-up to 2009’s Stigmata and first release...
View ArticleMartin Rev on Suicide, Alan Vega and his autobiographical new album Demolition 9
Alongside late vocalist Alan Vega, Martin Rev comprised one of New York’s most provocative and game-changing acts. Beginning in the early ‘70s, Suicide’s pioneering no wave experiments laid the...
View ArticleWatch the video for Alan Vega’s new track ‘DTM’
Featuring previously unreleased live footage of the late Suicide member. The first video from Alan Vega’s posthumous album IT has landed. ‘DTM’ – which is an abbreviation of “Dead To Me” – features...
View ArticleAlan Vega IT review: The final sermon from Brooklyn’s late ‘Screamin’ Jesus’
Suicide frontman Alan Vega died in his sleep last July at age 78 and IT, his last solo effort (which is being touted as “his masterpiece and final statement”), has been released into the world. April...
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