No Wave
Lydia Lunch, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks: Teenage Jesus and the Jerks: Out To Lunch
Interview by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, July 1978
A Dialogue between Roy Trakin and Lydia Lunch of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks ...
8-Eyed Spy, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Lydia Lunch: Way Out West With 8-Eyed Spy
Report by Byron Coley, New York Rocker, May 1980
IF LYDIA LUNCH'S Queen Of Siam hadn't come out when it did, I'd probably still be freezin' my butt off in Ketchum, Idaho, a town ...
James Chance: James White & the Contortions: Second Chance (PVC)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 1981
IT ALL depends how deranged you are to start with. James Chance – née White, née Black – makes impossibly futile, dead music, fit only ...
Material: When Is A Band Not A Band?
Interview by Richard Grabel, NME, April 1981
When it's Material, who are sort of several New York bands who are always sort of coming and going in all sorts of wonderful ways. ...
James Chance: Save The Last Chance For Me!
Interview by Ian Penman, NME, June 1981
Sax and drugs and contorted soul – Ian Penman meets his hero in another instalment of conversations with James Chance. London 1981. ...
Lydia Lunch, 8-Eyed Spy: Lydia Lunch: Out To Lydia
Interview by Richard Grabel, NME, August 1981
Richard Grabel lays on the red carpet treatment for his Lunch date ...
James Blood Ulmer: Blood in the Grooves
Interview by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, October 1981
1. A LOT OF different people are going to like Free-Lancing, the new album by James Blood Ulmer. ...
James White and The Blacks: Danceteria, New York NY
Live Review by Richard Grabel, NME, April 1982
FLINGING THE FUNK IN YOUR FACE ...
Kid Creole & The Coconuts: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Richard Cook, NME, October 1982
God's a Creole No Kidding! ...
Lydia Lunch, Sonic Youth: No Wave: Histories Along The Bowery
Interview by Olly Beck, Garageland, November 2008
The New York No Wave Movement: More Punk than Punk. Olly Beck talks to Thurston Moore ...
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