AN ICON OF OUT THERE

Alan Vega died the other day, and I'm not really going to dwell on it. I appreciate his groundbreaking work as half of Suicide (the other half being Martin Rev), but sometimes you just have to be in the mood, and tonight I'm not. So here's a few Vega related things, including "Frankie Teardrop", because every band has it's "Free Bird". There's a couple live things too, from 2009, and a couple writings found, you know, not here. The photo above of a young Vega was found on the site of his ex-wife, Mariette Bermowitz.

~ NOTE: ALL MEDIA IS HOSTED BY THE BLOGS & SITES NAMED BELOW ~

Listen:
Suicide - Frankie Teardrop mp3 at DK Presents
Suicide - Dream Baby Dream mp3 at Free Music Archive Live 2009
Suicide - Girl mp3 at Free Music Archive Live 2009
Visit:
Alan Vega, Punk Music Pioneer and Artist, Dies at 78 at New York Times
Bruce Springsteen's Eulogy for Suicide's Alan Vega at Pitchfork Plus Springsteen cover of "Dream Baby Dream".

SWEATIN' TO THE OLDIES

I forget when the first Suicide LP came out, it was around 1977 or '78. Geez, what a whopper. It might sound corny or self indulgent in parts now, and some of Alan Vega's guttural yelps almost comical, but make no mistake, this shit was radical when it came out. And a little creepy. Industrial music had not really been identified as such yet. You didn't really know what to call it. I mean, what the fuck do you do with this?

~ NOTE: ALL MEDIA IS HOSTED BY THE BLOGS & SITES NAMED BELOW ~

Listen:
Suicide - Frankie Teardrop mp3 at DK Presents
Suicide - Cheree mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu

WHAT THE HELL YEAR IS IT?

UPDATE 5/30/11: WFMU has posted sets from the Primavera Sound Festival. Day 1 can be found here. Day 2 can be found here.

On Friday and Saturday this weekend (May 27 & 28), WFMU will be broadcasting live, streaming online, from the Primavera Sound Festival, from 3:00 ET (U.S.) to 12:00 ET (U.S.). Among the acts are Suicide, playing their first LP, at 3:00 E.T. on Friday. How cool is that, yankee office rats? If you have a desk job, and a permissive workplace, you can listen to Suicide, live, from Barcelona, Spain.

Other elder noise bros appearing include Glenn Branca (Friday, 5:00 E.T.), Half Japanese (Friday 9:00 E.T.), Pere Ubu (playing Modern Dance, Saturday, 4:00 E.T.), Einsturzende Neubauten, (Saturday, 6:50), and Swans (Saturday, 9:15 E.T.). The rest of the line-up includes a host of other entirely listenable bands, among them Ty Segall and Pissed Jeans. (The full line-up can be found here.)

If you don't think that this is a rad thing, then you haven't taken into consideration how much this world has changed since these bands were on their first go around. Maybe you're too young. Let me tell you, it's a mind fuck, a good old fashioned American mind fuck.

~ LISTEN TO THE PRIMAVERA SOUND FESTIVAL LIVE ~

UPDATE 5/30/11:
WFMU has posted sets from the Primavera Sound Festival.
Day 1 can be found here.
Day 2 can be found here.