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Infinity Punk: A Career-Spanning Interview With Suicide's Alan Vega

Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 July 2016

Following the musical iconoclast's death at age 78 – an in-depth conversation from 2002 that includes tales of dangerous old New York, what it meant to be a radical artist in the Vietnam era, and that time someone threw an ax at him onstage.

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