Alan Vega
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Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 18 July 2016
Co-founder and frontman of the confrontational electronic band Suicide ...
Alan Vega: Collision Drive (Celluloid)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 1981
AS THE mercurial ‘Jukebox Babe’ starts to makes its steady impact as a 12-inch, here is an even grittier reinterpretation of The Great American Rock ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 10 September 1983
A VEGA PERSPECTIVE ON GHOST RIDERS, KUNG-FU COWBOYS, AYLER WAILERS AND LIFE AFTER SUICIDE. ...
Interview by Chris Campion, Dazed & Confused, July 2002
IT'S TAKEN 30 years for Alan Vega to make the transition from surly street punk and art world agitator to New York institution. Better known ...
Alan Vega: Deuce Avenue (Musidisc)
Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 9 June 1990
I PLAYED this when I was feeling flippant and swinging and it sounded boring. Then I played it while undergoing one of my Chiswick's-answer-to-Greta-Garbo phases ...
Alan Vega: Journey Through America 1985 — Part One
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 23 November 1985
During the '70s ALAN VEGA switched New York on to a different wavelength. Ten years on, and he's seemingly blown a fuse with a 'commercial' ...
Retrospective and Interview by Jeremy Gluck, unpublished, 1988
NOTE: Another unpublished piece for Bucketful of Brains from the prolific pen of Mr Jeremy Gluck, this time on Suicide's Alan Vega, written in 1988 ...
Interview by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 26 January 1983
A DIRTY white sofa is pushed away from the wall to make room for paint cans, brushes, and newspapers matted on the floor. The only ...
Alan Vega: Just a Million Dreams
Review by Lindsay Hutton, Sounds, 14 September 1985
OVER THE years, many lesser talents have taken chapter and verse out of the Vega book, and who can blame them? Not me. ...
Alan Vega: Power On To Zero Hour
Review by Mike Barnes, Select, October 1991
THROUGHOUT ALAN VEGA'S CAREER, from Suicide in the mid/late '70s to the present day, he has always had a strong, inherent grasp of the essence ...
Interview by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, 9 June 1990
Ralph Traitor talks to the legendary Alan Vega, and finds one of rock's true originals with his finest solo album in years, and a man ...
Alan Vega: Collision Drive (Celluloid)
Review by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, 23 January 1982
ALAN VEGA'S recent departure into ersatz neo-rockabilly will elicit a variety of responses from his admirers. Some will call it a sell-out, but that's a ...
Interview by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 13 March 1982
Still controversial, still reviled — and still unsuccessful, Alan Vega discusses life after Suicide, politics and rock. ...
Interview by Roy Trakin, Creem, February 1984
ONCE UPON A time, in the early '70s, long before currently voguish "new music" outfits like Soft Cell, Yaz and Human League, there was Suicide. ...
Infinity Punk: A Career-Spanning Interview With Suicide's Alan Vega
Interview by 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 ...
A King Has Passed: Alan Vega Remembered
Retrospective by Tim Cooper, The Quietus, 18 July 2016
BY THE SUMMER of 1978, punk rock had lost the power to shock. The revolution that had shot an amphetamine rush into a moribund music ...
see also Suicide
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