Film still from The Warriors, 1979
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Fare thee well to songwriter extraordinaire Burt Bacharach (covered here brilliantly by The Stranglers). May his memory be a blessing.
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Photograph by Lee Greenfeld © 2023
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Patti Smith and Tom Verlaine at a party for Frank Zappa in NYC, 1974. Photograph by Allan Tannenbaum
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"Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless Ame...
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TERRY HALL REST IN PEACE
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Photograph by Lee Greenfeld © 2022
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Chasing Trane is a must-watch documentary despite the clumsy beginning and the exclusion of Coltrane’s brilliant stretch playing with Eric Dolphy (their European live recordings are some o...
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Photograph by Lee Greenfeld ©2022
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Photograph by Lee Greenfeld © 2022
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“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” Photograph by Lee Greenfeld © 2022
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Photograph by Arthur Tress, 1972
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“ To tell sweet lies, one last time and say good night,”
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It’s truly awful to find out in the wake of their death that an artist you admired, and whose work you loved and learned from, held vile views. I am quite capable of separating the art from t...
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The Grateful Dead and Black Sabbath, not to mention Traffic, José Feliciano, Free, and Shagrat (which featured Steve Peregrin Took, Mick Farren and Larry Wallis), on the same bill in 1970. T...
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Even war cannot stop the creation of art: track from Ukrainian psychedelic band The Landscape’s just released album.
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Chris "Stane" Anthony's New York City Prose is a vivid and loving look back at very specific-era in True York City that will appeal to both those who were involved in graffiti and those inter...
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50 years ago today: John Wojtowicz looks through the window of the Chase Bank on Avenue P between East 3rd and 4th streets during the robbery that inspired Dog Day Afternoon. Photograph by C...
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“Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. An...
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"Democratic modernity replies to the universalist, linear progressivist and determinist methodology deployed by the modern nation-state to achieve the homogenization and herdification of socie...
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"What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters." Photograph: Lee Greenfeld © 2022. Mural: Zed1. Quot...
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The great Vin Scully calling his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 18th, 1950. (Peep the quart of Schaefer and the carton of Lucky Strike.)
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Fare thee well to the talented, tough, and funny James Caan.
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The Penis Envy album is just as uncompromising (and relevant) as it was when it was released in 1981. The entire album needs to be consumed whole as a piece of furious sonic political art, but th...
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