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Richard Hell only made two albums in his brief recording career, 1977’s confrontational landmark Blank Generation and 1982’s Destiny Street. In the informative and entertaining new liner notes for Destiny Street Complete, Hell describes the final mix of this less-successful sequel as a “morass of trebly multi-guitar blare.” Today, he’s seized the opportunity for a do-over, and then some. The two-disc Destiny Street Complete features four different takes on the album: the original ...

Ali Marpet and His Unique Super Bowl Origin Story The father who worked in the fashion world, the mother who fronted an avant-garde rock band and the football-star son who is both nothing and exactly like them. Author: Feb 2, 2021 The other day when Bill Marpet saw his son, Ali, he was taken aback when he noticed his boy dressed up in a black Polo shirt with a red emblem on the chest. This was far nicer than Ali usually dressed; for most of his life, he had revelled in the art of the hand-me-...

1. “ ” at Pace Gallery, New York If you, like me, have ever wanted to be able to articulate responses to Tara Donovan’s something-extraordinary-from-nothing-special installations that are fitter for intelligent company than, “WTF, how did she do this?!” then Wednesday afternoon presents a golden opportunity.  To provide the high-level context Donovan’s current solo show at Pace’s New York flagship (through March 6) deserves, the gallery will host an online panel discussion betwee...

Reissue CDs Weekly: Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Destiny Street Complete | reviews, news & interviews Reissue CDs Weekly: Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Destiny Street Complete Reissue CDs Weekly: Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Destiny Street Complete Thought-provoking revisitation of the New York punk pioneer’s second album by Kieron TylerSunday, 24 January 2021 Richard Hell ponders being lauded as comparable with Rimbaud and LautremontRoberta Bayley "Three plus versions of the s...

Destiny Street must have seemed like a dead end to Richard Hell & The Voidoids in 1982. Unsatisfied with the art punk originators’ second and final album, perhaps troubled by its rather thin, muffled sound or its flailing chaos, Hell wanted desperately to remix the wild and woolly successor to 1977’s seminal Blank Generation debut. Unfortunately, the original 24-track masters went missing, preventing Hell from performing the necessary operation. As luck would have it, in the early 2000s, H...

Cherry Red/Strike Force Entertainment Like David Bowie and maybe one or two others, it matters not how “huge” Marc Almond’s individual records are. In the eyes of his diehard fans, of whom there are many, he remains akin to an underground cult, beloved by a select few folk, and offered widespread approval only for the hits that he occasionally spills out. The Stars We Are, from 1988, is a case in point. Buoyed by what would become a monster smash duet with Gene Pitney, “Something’s Go...

Music Reviews: Princes Sign O the Times (Super Deluxe Edition) Plus Richard Hell Sign In Jeff Burger, BLOGCRITICS.ORG FacebookTwitterEmail A new edition of Sign O the Times, Princes brilliant and remarkably eclectic 1987 double album, easily earns its "super deluxe" billing with a long list of bonus goodies. Delivered in an LP-sized slipcase, the set includes an excellent remaster of the original album on two discs, plus six additional CDs: one with remastered single mixes and edits, three wi...

He had a talent for pushing the boundaries beyond what was conventionally acceptable. So Malcolm McLaren, the Godfather of Punk, would have been delighted that, more than a decade after his death, he is embroiled in a marmalade-dropper of a memoir — described by one critic as ‘the most graphically effective sex writing I’ve read in a long time’. It’s the debut literary work of Young Kim, the petite Korean-American who shared the past 12 years of McLaren’s life after meeting him at a...

Courtney Marie Andrews all feature in the new  Uncut, dated March 2021 and in UK shops from January 14 or available to buy online now. As always, the issue comes with a free CD, comprising 12 tracks of the month’s best new music – plus a very special Weather Station sampler compilation only for our subscribers. LEONARD COHEN: 50 years ago, Songs Of Love And Hate ushered in a strange and compelling new era for rock’s pre-eminent poet. With help from his friends and collaborators, we ...

Legendary punk rock band Blank Generation in 1977, but its follow-up LP, Destiny Street (recorded in 1981 and released in 1982), wasn’t up to snuff recording-wise, according to the renowned Richard Hell. Finally Destiny Street (the New York-based rockers’ second and final album) has been taken into the meticulous and informed care of Omnivore Recordings and restored, revamped, and expanded into the classic opus it was meant to be. On January 22nd Omnivore is releasing Destiny Street C...