We want to share with you this message from Ivan's dear friend, former bandmate Richard Hell, who will also play the sold out May 4 concert at City Winery NYC.
"I’ve known Ivan since he was 21, in spring 1976 (40 years ago), when Bob Quine and Marc Bell and I were auditioning people to become Quine’s Voidoid co-guitarist.
Bobby BeauSoleil shares a rare video from 1978 when he performed Lynrrd Skynrrd's "Simple Man" with the Freedom Orchestra at the state prison in Tracy, CA. Prison rock at its finest!
Bob Mehr, author of the new biography, “Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements,” was only 11 years old at the time, but the ‘Mats [the band’s nickname, short for Placemats] performance that night left quite an impression on his young mind.
To celebrate the the release of the 20th anniversary Edition of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil will be reading and signing books at the House of Independents in Asbury Park, NJ at on May 6th!
The 20th Anniversary Edition of Please Kill Me will be released in May 2016 with new chapters, photos and Afterword by the authors.
Listening to One Prayer One Sin erupts symbiotic visual reels of 70's city's streets and Travis Bickle wearing a bloody smile. Watching singer Johnny Scuotto flail his arms around hysterically while taunting the audience with a devilish grin pronounced by bare brows as he shouts and jerks around- can only properly be described as a "psychopathic Ian Curtis" dance. OPOS is a dynamic combination of the Birthday Party, the Pop Group, Brian Eno, and a distinct influence from Iggy Pop's albums of 1977, The Idiot and Lust For Life.
Jimmy was my first teacher, he had drummed for Blondie, gotten the musical approval of Lou Reed, and even had to stop Stiv Bators from hitting on his girlfriend.
It's been a devastating year for Nick Cave after son Arthur fell from a 60ft cliff and died during a bad acid trip in July of 2015. Fans were worried about him, yet instinctively knew if he pulled through he would transform his suffering into beautiful music. Not only has he done that with new album Skeleton Tree, but you can preview the new songs by purchasing tickets to his new movie One More Time With Feeling.
Brooklyn trio Big Cheese may have only begun in 2013, but they have resurrected the powerful and darkly introspective sound of '90s-era rock bands. Drummer Justin Iwinski cites Nirvana as a major influence ("Big Cheese" being a track off Nirvana's 1989 album Bleach), while songs off their second album, Supersonic Nothing, reflect the Stooges and the Melvins.
Music legend (and WFMU freeform pioneer) Danny Fields chats and programs music alongside filmmaker Brendan Toller, director of the documentary Danny Says. Gaylord Fields hosts.