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Bayley was born in Pasadena, California [2] and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended San Francisco State University for three years before dropping out in 1971. [3][1] She moved to London where she lived for three years, before moving to New York in the spring of 1974. [4]
The origins of New York's punk rock scene can be traced back to such sources as late 1960s trash culture and an early 1970s underground rock movement centered on the Mercer Arts Center in Greenwich Village, where the New York Dolls performed. [1] In early 1974, this early punk scene began to develop around the CBGB club, also in lower Manhattan ...
No wave was an avant-garde music genre and visual art scene that emerged in the late 1970s in Downtown New York City. [ 4 ][ 5 ] The term was a pun based on the rejection of commercial new wave music. [ 6 ] Reacting against punk rock 's recycling of rock and roll clichés, no wave musicians instead experimented with noise, dissonance, and ...
Mudd Club plaque on building at 77 White Street, New York City. The Mudd Club was a nightclub located at 77 White Street in the TriBeCa neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It operated from 1978 to 1983 as a venue for post punk underground music and no wave counterculture events. It was opened by Steve Maas, Diego Cortez and Anya ...
Released: 1984. Run-D.M.C.is the debut studio albumby American hip hopgroup Run-D.M.C., released on March 27, 1984, by Profile Records, and re-issued by Arista Records. The album was primarily produced by Russell Simmonsand Larry Smith. The album was considered groundbreaking for its time, presenting a tougher, more hardcoreform of rap.
Many of these bands delved into punk history and paid tribute to the Voidoids and other New York bands, in particular New York-based noise rockers Sonic Youth, whose frontman Thurston Moore had seen the Voidoids live in the 1970s. [49] The Voidoids were a key influence on the Minutemen, whose D. Boon name-dropped Hell in "History Lesson ...
Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn, June 16, 1957) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. [2] Pettibon came to prominence in the early 1980s in the southern California punk rock scene, creating posters and album art mainly for groups on SST Records, owned and operated by his older brother, Greg Ginn. He has subsequently ...
Clayton Patterson (born October 9, 1948) is a Canadian-born artist, photographer, videographer and folk historian. [1] Since moving to New York City in 1979, his work has focused almost exclusively on documenting the art, life and times of the Lower East Side in Manhattan.