Jerry Nolan’s Wild Ride by Curt Weiss A REVIEW by TOBE DAMIT The New York Dolls were born in a city in a total wreck, therefore a perfect ground for rock’n’roll to emerge. The Dolls grew out of it just like weeds in a crack of cement. The Dolls are of the rawest band in […]
Read More Stranded in the JungleWednesday, February 6, 2019 – Berls Poetry Book Shop – Brooklyn (Dumbo) NY Friday, March 1, 2019 – City Island, Bronx, NY April 2-5, 2019 – (Locations TBA) Buffalo, NY Tuesday, April 16, 2019 – Oblong Books & Music – Rhinebeck, NY
Read More GERARD MALANGA COOL & OTHER POEMS READING TOUR 2019Rocket Fan from Russia A Review by Julia Green, November 2018 “The American Dream is sustained by optimism, even when nihilism is trendy.” Donna Gaines Every book tells the story… Now, you have a lot more than this. ”Why the Ramones Matter” offers you lost pieces of a puzzle you’ve been probably collecting and searching for […]
Read More About “Why The Ramones Matter” by Donna GainesLast Days of the Suicide Kid Music by Helios Creed from CHROME
Read More Mockingbird Wish Me LuckGlam-Rock Royalty on Race Street As a co-founder of glam-rock pioneers the New York Dolls in the 1970s, Sylvain Sylvain helped make too-small girls’ clothing an acceptable part of male rockers’ wardrobes. The corkscrew-coiffed moppet played the natural foil to fellow guitarist Johnny Thunders’ haystack-haired bad boy, and their music –– equal parts early Rolling […]
Read More THE NEW YORK DOLLSInterviewed by Jimmy Martin (The Quietus 2014) Spawned unto the world in 1976 like a mutant beast from an unearthly morass of twisted steel on a splatter movie, San Franciscans freaks Chrome have loomed large ever since as a triumph for murky noise alchemy – borne of technology gone wrong, and thriving in a blizzard […]
Read More Helios Creed from Chrome(above) Richard Boch with Pete Farndon 1980© by Lynette Bean Questions to author Richard Boch by Tobe Damit NITRO by Damita! ”I really hope my words are worthy….When I woke up this morning the only thoughts in my mind were the realization that perhaps doggy spit held the unforseen properties of exfoliating the dead skin off […]
Read More In The MuddThe Decay Dance of Dr Mudd’s Club First of all I wanna make clear that the title isn’t about the decay of the people frequenting the Mudd Club but rather about the decaying of a society that was in full expansion, artists and musicians of all sorts and parts of them ended ”cleaned up”, being […]
Read More The Mudd ClubAs remembered by Richard Boch! All about the NYC’s notorious Mudd Club where art and music intersect with sex, drugs and the slumming glittering elite!! “I was a Long Island kid that graduated college in 1976 and moved to Greenwich Village. Two years later, I was working The Mudd Club door. Standing outside, staring at […]
Read More The Mudd ClubMOURNING SUN by Tobe Damit ”I always felt like some kinda extra-terrestrial, like an elephant in a glasshouse, and all I was saying was fucked up and dumb and clumsy, I had my head up in the sky and there was just no hope for it to come back down on my shoulders.” Woke up […]
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Loud Alien Noize 