This just in from uber-savvy postpunk archivist extraordinaire, Simon Reynolds, author of the exhaustively authoritative tome, Rip It Up and Start Again....
a reminder:
On Tuesday March 28th I'm giving a talk about postpunk New York and the synergy between the downtown art world and the No Wave/mutant disco scene, as part of The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984 exhibition which is running at the Grey Gallery and at NYU's Fales Library.
Admission is free, the time is 6-30 PM, and the location for the talk is:
NYU Fales Library (inside Bobst Library)
70 Washington Square South at La Guardia, 3rd Floor
(further information: 212 998 2596)
Another free Downtown Show event worth checking out is Friday 3/31's Nightclubbing: The Original Punk Rock Music Video Series, which is at the Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth Street, starts at 6PM, and has live footage of Contortions, DNA, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Suicide, Talking Heads, Bush Tetras, Lounge Lizards, the Voidoids, Cramps, Pylon, John Cale, Bad Brains, and many more, and is followed by a discussion between the curators of the event Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong moderated by Amos Poe.
Aggravatingly I won't get to see this as that very night I'll to be walking in Memphis (youngest brother's getting married)
As a huge fan of the man's book and the eras of music being discussed, I'm going to try my damndest to make it to both of these events (screamy infants and furrowed-brow spouse permitting).
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