Stan Ridgway

Stan Ridgway: A Wall of Voodoo-er Loses it at the Movies & Finds it at the Clubhouse

Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, February 1986

THE CLUBHOUSE is up on the fourth floor of an office building Raymond Chandler might have called "reasonably shabby" fifty years ago. It's on a ...

Stan Ridgway's Rock Noir: The Big Heat

Review by Don Snowden, The Boston Phoenix, 1 April 1986

IF YOU JUDGED him from his work as the mouthpiece of LA’s Wall of Voodoo, you’d be tempted to dismiss Stan Ridgway as an irredeemably ...

Stan Ridgway's Twisted Charm

Interview by Laura Fissinger, Spin, May 1986

POP MUSIC'S intelligentsia claims Stan Ridgway as one of its own — seeing that no one else has really tried, maybe they have that right. ...

Stan Ridgway: Drawing Mosquitos With An Eye For Detail

Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 20 October 1989

STAN RIDGWAY is a great painter of life. Rather than oil or water colors, however, his medium has always been the English language. He creates ...

Songwriting: Sex and Memory

Interview by Paul Zollo, Musician, April 1999

Janis Ian and Stan Ridgway discuss the changing role of gender in modern lyrics. ...