An artist of incalculable significance, Lou was also, as one of his song titles put it, the ultimate “NYC Man,” as inextricable a part of the city as, say, the Twin Towers. Now he and they are gone and the city still stands, however much
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“MacKaye found what became in the band’s name in 1987, in journalist Mark Baker’s fascinating 1981 book Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There. Fugazi: a slang term for “fucked up.”
― In on the Kill Taker
― In on the Kill Taker
“In terms of labor relations, the basic problem with living your life is that it’s on the-job training and by the time you get some skill at it, you’re permanently laid off.”
― Vic and Blood: Stories
― Vic and Blood: Stories
“But good old Albert, aka Vic, whooped and howled like a Belgian wolfhound getting a glucose enema.”
― Vic and Blood: Stories
― Vic and Blood: Stories
“It’s been said before, but it bears repeating—Dischord is, above all, a folk label, one that documents the native sounds of a Certain Group of People at a Certain Place and Time.”
― In on the Kill Taker
― In on the Kill Taker
“Nevermind is almost two years into being everywhere. Grunge shit is all over MTV and, to paraphrase the Dead Milkmen, they’ll slam to anything”
― In on the Kill Taker
― In on the Kill Taker
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