Grinderman's Jim Sclavunos FasterLouder Besides briefly drumming for core New York art-rock bands Sonic Youth and The Cramps, he, alongside Lydia Lunch was directly involved in creating the No Wave movement – a kind of puritan punk scene, directly in opposition to how commercialised punk had ...
Martin Kippenberger as Music Lover GalleristNY Knowing only the vague outlines of the artist's time as a young man in Berlin, running the notorious SO 36 club, where bands like Wire, Iggy Pop and Lydia Lunch, played, we were thrilled to come across a section all about the artist's music listening ...
Aural Fixation: Sonic valentine Weekly Alibi Clint Ruin & Lydia Lunch • “Don't Fear the Reaper” No wave chanteuse Lunch and Clint Ruin (Foetus) do The Beatles. “I blew up your body, but you blew my mind.” The Sheffield industrial icon's distorted, melodic interpretation of The Seeds.
Thurston Moore Mixes Folk, Noise and No Wave Memories in New York Show RollingStone.com (blog) Ghosts of electricity ran through Moore's verse, with references to the cassette underground, No Wave lioness Lydia Lunch and Lou Reed watching a Ramones gig ("Best band in the world/He knows"). The music was also rife with spirits.
'Last Fast Ride': An illuminating punk rock doc USA TODAY As one of Anderson's band mates describes her, the singer had a "Siouxsie Sioux presence ... with a Lydia Lunch edge about her." Anderson survived an abusive childhood and struggled with mental illness and addiction throughout her life.
Florence & Machine Plot U.S. Tour, But Leave Theatrics Home TheImproper.com ... the Brit Awards. the UK equivalent of the Grammys. Some compare her to Kate Bush with touches of Tom Waits, Nick Cave and Bjork. but she's definitely an original. Her punk/new wave pro-forma nuances also recall Christina and Lydia Lunch. Remember them?
Halo-8 Entertainment Introduces Godkiller: Tomorrow's Ashes Digital Comics ... Dread Central ... Danielle Harris (Halloween), Nicki Clyne (Battlestar Galactica), Bill Moseley (The Devil's Rejects), Lydia Lunch (art-punk icon), Tiffany Shepis (Nightmare Man), and Justin Pierre (singer Motion City Soundtrack) with music by Atari Teenage Riot.
