alexrosas2023-03-29T14:26:33+00:00February 22nd, 2022|Music|
©2022 By Legs McNeil | In honor of Howie Pyro’s new liver and Jesse Malin’s benefit show for Howie’s medical expenses on Saturday, March 5th, I present Howie Pyro, the East Village Zelig, founding member of both the Blessed and D Generation.
alexrosas2022-02-18T03:36:05+00:00February 18th, 2022|Music|
©2022 by Amy Haben | "The X-Ray Spex singer’s daughter, Celeste Bell, has made an award-winning documentary on her mother’s inspiring yet dysfunctional life."
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:11:08+00:00February 18th, 2022|Music, Video Of The Month|
Director/Producer/Editor: Sam O'Leary -- DOP: Dann Cooper -- Set Design: Jan Siwilewicz -- Production Assistant & Make Up Artist: Roma Lucia Allenby
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:11:16+00:00February 13th, 2022|Music|
Already frustrated by growing tensions within the band, the group was less than excited about their arrival in Toledo. Later, tour manager David Libert would be quoted saying, "If the Lord ever wanted to give the world an enema, this is where he would stick the goddamn nozzle."
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:11:31+00:00February 11th, 2022|Music|
Johnny “Guitar” Watson was a hardcore guitar gunslinger with a sound described as “an icepick to the forehead.” He was the Gangster of Love, and he proved it in the way he played, the way he lived – and the way he died.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:08:30+00:00February 6th, 2022|Essays, Music|
©2022 By Amanda Sheppard | A glimpse into the Texas psychedelic rock & roll scene in the 1960s.
alexrosas2022-01-26T01:04:31+00:00January 26th, 2022|Essays, Music, TV & Film|
"At age 20, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged from the downtown scene with a budding sophistication equally rooted in abstract expressionism and the post-punk, no-wave, hip-hop, graffiti grit of the Mudd Club avant-garde." | ©2022 by Amanda Sheppard
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:08:54+00:00January 25th, 2022|Music|
Suicide was anything but boring. Far from it. This was dangerous, wildly unpredictable, chaotic performance art. They were really quite a spectacle and left anyone who stumbled into their concerts at CBGB or Max’s with their mouth open, thinking, What the hell is this?
alexrosas2022-01-16T19:57:14+00:00January 16th, 2022|Essays, Music|
"She was always doing new things, but she still stayed connected to her roots and wasn’t too cool to show up and play at a small downtown club with punk bands and her friends."
alexrosas2022-01-15T02:23:35+00:00January 15th, 2022|Music|
By Dee Dee Ramone, As Told To Legs McNeil
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:09:13+00:00January 10th, 2022|Music|
Keith laid out the entire history of the hardcore scene. It probably helped that I started off by saying, “Talk to me like I’m a moron and don’t know any of this stuff.”
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:09:25+00:00December 31st, 2021|Music|
By Tom Wynbrandt | “The rooster hair, the platform shoes, the quiet acceptance of all the adulation— I’d never seen anyone quite like him.”
alexrosas2022-01-16T19:35:50+00:00December 31st, 2021|Music, Podcast|
Assembled by the editors at Legsville
alexrosas2022-01-02T02:33:45+00:00December 29th, 2021|Music, TV & Film, Video Of The Month|
Assembled by the editors at Legsville
alexrosas2022-01-16T19:36:09+00:00December 28th, 2021|Music, TV & Film, Video Of The Month|
Director: Jimmy Fisco | Co-director: GAYLE | Producer: Kristina Russo
alexrosas2022-01-16T19:36:20+00:00December 25th, 2021|How I Survived The Pandemic, Music|
Billy gives us "Songs in a Time of Crisis" ... Check it out!
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:07:00+00:00December 25th, 2021|Music|
By Mike Katz and Crispin Kott | “The music on our records has nothing to do with us. It’s totally dishonest. We don’t record our own music. Tell the world we’re synthetic because, dammit, we are! We want to play our own.” - Mike Nesmith, the Monkees (TV Guide, September 23, 1967)
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:06:53+00:00December 25th, 2021|Music|
By Niagara
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:08:07+00:00December 25th, 2021|Music|
Here's 5 reasons why you should be paying attention to the New Wave Of Heavy Metal.
alexrosas2022-01-16T19:36:46+00:00December 25th, 2021|Literature, Music|
"RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME: THE LIFE OF A ROCK & ROLL PHOTOGRAPHER" BY BOB GRUEN From BobGruen.com: An [...]
