This is London Calling
NEW YORK, NY- “This is London Calling” — these words were the BBC World Service‘s opening for broadcasts to occupied countries during World War II. For those living abroad, the radio tagline must have felt like a beacon of light, providing a connection to…
“Gates of the West” in the East Village
August 25, NEW YORK, NY – There’s this story about Joe Strummer from the band’s 1980 show in San Francisco, right on the heels of a grueling UK tour for London Calling. This was The Clash’s breakthrough album for the U.S. market, and Joe, the…
Suicide Sally: A Concert Tribute to Electro-Punk Pioneer Alan Vega
NEW YORK, NY- New York is a city constantly destabilized, disrupted, and remade again. No music captures the roiling countercurrents of this creative destruction quite like Suicide’s self-titled album from 1977. The surreal starkness of Alan Vega’s vocal delivery — think of the narration of…
