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Q&A: Proto-Punks Jack Ruby And No Wave Goddess Lydia Lunch On Finding The Lost Tapes And Remembering Boris Policeband And The Contortions' George Scott

This week in the Voice I spoke to the surviving members of the New York proto-punk outfit Jack Ruby—as well as Teenage Jesus and the Jerks/8-Eyed Spy no wave icon Lydia Lunch—and we sifted through the drug and alcohol haze of 1970s and '80s New York City to find a few killer memories. I ... More >>

Q & A: Noveller's Sarah Lipstate On Working Alone, Opening For The Jesus Lizard, Panic Attacks And Getting Kicked Out of Cold Cave

Louis Caldarola​Noveller is the nom de musique of Sarah Lipstate, whose precise compositions build on a cathartic repetition of righteous riff aktion colored with gorgeous loopingfuckdoodlery and noise gush. Live, it's just Lipstate, all by her lonesome, just the way she likes it, slinging her ... More >>

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz: Can You Name All Four Bands on No New York?

​A few weeks ago, James Murphy, reluctant voice to a generation of record-obsessed man-children, announced that LCD Soundsystem was going to call it quits, culminating in a fascinating pushing-and-shoving match for farewell concert tickets. Seriously, it was like Black Friday for doughy people ... More >>

Yes In My Backyard: The Video Premiere of Talk Normal's "In A Strangeland"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Now that Brooklyn loft-rock is leaning towards toward beach-y, garage-y, tape-damaged nostalgiasmush, we should thank the stars that Talk Normal have arrived to keep it ugly. The best thing to lurch out ... More >>

Live: Faust Bring Joyful Damage to the Music Hall of Williamsburg's WFMU Fest

Twitpic via Eardrumnyc​Faust WFMU Fest/Music Hall Of Williamsburg October 1 Dear American experimental underground, Faust has a message for you: You're no fun. Last night was a rollicking, all-smiles 90-minute set from a bunch of Germans who were making weird records when Mike Patton was sti ... More >>

Interview: WFMU Music Director Brian Turner on Programming the First Ever WFMU Fest

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Interview: WFMU's Tom Scharpling on His Twitter Novel, the New Scharpling and Wurster Album, and His Antipathy Towards Sleep.

"Fuel Dump is going to be like Magnolia. Or Crash. It's going to be like Magnolia meets Crash." Obligatory caption: "What I Do On The Weekends For Disposable Income." What Tom Scharpling, host of The Best Show On WFMU with Tom Scharpling, might lack in modesty, he makes up for with his impressive ... More >>

WFMU Announces WFMU Fest

​ In 2008, the pioneering Jersey City-based freeform radio outfit WFMU celebrated its 50th anniversary. One year later, the party evidently continues: WFMU will host a music festival over the first three days of October at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, and they're bringing out the heavy hitt ... More >>

Downtown's Lady Boswells: Lydia Lunch's Will Work for Drugs; Reverend Jen's Live Nude Elf

Bohos pause from their alternative lifestyles to type up two new memoirs

'Present Tense'/'No Wave'

Cancer and Karma

Jackie Farry and friends fuck cancer; filmmaker Scott Crary kills his idols

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