“I can’t believe I wasted half my life helping Tipper put warning labels on this stuff when I could have been seeing these guys do their thing live,” Gore said of W.A.S.P. “They used to whip raw meat at the audience. How bad-ass is that?”
“Cause I’m burning, burning, burning up with fi-ire! ” added Gore, screaming the lyrics to “Wild Child.”
Category: Music
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Recently Single Al Gore Finally Able To Listen To W.A.S.P. Albums
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In Focus: Ebru Yildiz’s Final Days and Nights at Death by Audio | American Photo
Last fall when Ebru Yildiz learned that one of her favorite Brooklyn venues, Death by Audio, would be shuttering its doors documenting its final weeks was a no-brainer. “I just felt like I had to be there,” she says. “When I started taking photos I realized how big of a project it was going to be—I thought this has to be a book.”
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In These Harlem Jazz Clubs, Musicians and Audience Became One – The New York Times
In These Harlem Jazz Clubs, Musicians and Audience Became One
“You went for the scene,” said Gerald Cyrus, who spent the 1990s photographing Harlem’s jazz clubs and jam sessions. Then they went away.
Twenty-odd years ago, Gerald Cyrus wandered into a Monday night jam session at St. Nick’s Pub, a jazz club in Harlem. There he found a very different scene from the one downtown, where he had spent years taking photographs at the Village Vanguard and other spots.
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I’m in Soviet heaven
I’m in Soviet heaven
The band. The dance. The audience. The everything.
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A Visual History of Rock and Roll, Room by Empty Room – The New Yorker
A Visual History of Rock and Roll, Room by Empty Room
The photographer Rhona Bitner captures iconic music venues after the revellers have gone home and the bands have pushed off for the next date.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-visual-history-of-rock-and-roll-room-by-empty-room?mbid=rss
For the past decade, the photographer Rhona Bitner has been working on “LISTEN,” a “visual history of rock and roll” that includes pictures of three hundred and eighty-nine iconic music venues, shot in eighty-seven cities across twenty-six states
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On Tour with Prince: A Photo Story and Remembrance
On Tour with Prince: A Photo Story and Remembrance
June 21, 2011. “You want to shoot Prince’s European Tour? Need to know ASAP.” January 28, 1985. I had snuck my 12″ Sampro B/W television that my
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/04/28/shooting-prince-photo-story/
June 21, 2011. “You want to shoot Prince’s European Tour? Need to know ASAP.”
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Saying Farewell to the Last Great Underground Music Venue in NYC – Feature Shoot
Saying Farewell to the Last Great Underground Music Venue in NYC – Feature Shoot
Brooklyn-based photographer Ebru Yildiz emerged from Death by Audio and into the crisp night of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It was the fall of 2014, and the waterfront DIY venue would shutter it’s doors come November 23, 2014, but until then, its most loyal b
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/04/saying-farewell-to-the-last-great-underground-music-venue-in-nyc/
Brooklyn-based photographer Ebru Yildiz emerged from Death by Audio and into the crisp night of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It was the fall of 2014, and the waterfront DIY venue would shutter it’s doors come November 23, 2014, but until then, its most loyal bands would play each night to a room for 100 people filled past capacity.
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In Shift to Streaming, Music Business Has Lost Billions – The New York Times
In Shift to Streaming, Music Business Has Lost Billions
Streaming and vinyl sales surge, but the big moneymaker, CDs, has been gradually abandoned.
But a closer look shows that the big sales numbers that have sustained the recorded music business for years are way down, and it is hard to see how they could ever return to where they were even a decade ago.
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Dan Ball’s Unseen, Intimate Photographs of Memphis’s Music Scene | VICE | United States
Dan Ball’s Unseen, Intimate Photographs of Memphis’s Music Scene
The Memphis native shot some of the most influential musicians of the past 30 years—including Jay Reatard, Three 6 Mafia, and Sonic Youth—often in his home.
via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/dan-balls-unseen-photographs-of-memphiss-underground-music-scene-111
If you were in a band that played a show in one of Memphis’s many clubs since the 90s, or if you were one of the many locals who made those clubs their second home, or even if you just caught some music while passing through the city, you might have seen Dan Ball standing in the front row with his camera.
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Jessica Lehrman: Documenting the Underbelly of the NYC Hip Hop World
Jessica Lehrman: Documenting the Underbelly of the NYC Hip Hop World
Jessica Lehrman is a 26-year-old Brooklyn-based documentary photographer who captures the glamor and grit of contemporary underground movements, from the
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/06/02/jessica-lehrman-documenting-the-underbelly-of-the-nyc-hip-hop-world/
Jessica Lehrman is a 26-year-old Brooklyn-based documentary photographer who captures the glamor and grit of contemporary underground movements, from the underbelly of New York City’s hip hop community to protests and social revolutions.
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A Photographer Infiltrates the Rio Funk Scene | PROOF
A Photographer Infiltrates the Rio Funk Scene
Photographer Vincent Rosenblatt spent ten years documenting the funk scene in Rio, and his work was recently featured in the March issue of National Geographic in Brazil.
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‘Killer Angels’: Portraits of Death Metal Fans Taken at Over 60 Shows – Feature Shoot
‘Killer Angels’: Portraits of Death Metal Fans Taken at Over 60 Shows – Feature Shoot
Maybe it’s hard to believe but death metal fans are some of best people out there, or so says Baltimore photographer J.M. Giordano. He would know. For his latest project Killer Angels, the photojournalist attended over sixty death metal shows. His subject
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2015/04/killer-angels-portraits-of-death-metal-fans-taken-at-over-60-shows/
Maybe it’s hard to believe but death metal fans are some of best people out there, or so says Baltimore photographer J.M. Giordano. He would know. For his latest project Killer Angels, the photojournalist attended over sixty death metal shows. His subjects however weren’t the bands, but the fans. “Honestly, I loved this project and the people. Metal fans are the best, most welcoming group I’ve met,” says Giordano.
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Photographer Charles Peterson Captured the Birth of Grunge Music in Seattle
Photographer Charles Peterson Captured the Birth of Grunge Music in Seattle
Charles Peterson is known for being one of the primary photographers on the forefront of the grunge music scene when it emerged from the Seattle
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/03/03/photographer-charles-peterson-captured-the-birth-of-grunge-music-in-seattle/
“Amidst the chaos of a live show, I wanted to find that sense of grace,” says Peterson. “I wanted people to experience what it was like being there; the sweat, the noise, being pushed against each other.”
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Norman Seeff – The look of sound – The Eye of Photography
Norman Seeff – The look of sound
Known for his portraits of American artists, South African photographer Norman Seeff is releasing his first monograph with the publisher Kehrer Verlag, and is the subject of an exhibition at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim, Germany.
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Erin Feinberg photographs music fans in her book, Diehards.
Music Fans Are Crazy
Erin Feinberg began her career photographing concerts as a way of getting to see her favorite musicians up close and for free. But as digital…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/07/14/erin_feinberg_photographs_music_fans_in_her_book_diehards.html
Erin Feinberg began her career photographing concerts as a way of getting to see her favorite musicians up close and for free. But as digital photography got more popular, photo pits became overcrowded and restrictions for photographers at shows became overbearing
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Photographs from Paul Zone’s ‘Playground’
Paul Zone’s “Playground”
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/07/photographs-from-paul-zones-playground.html#slide_ss_0=1
I would venture to guess that Paul Zone describes himself as a former rock star, but to me he’s something else—a rock-’n’-roll photographer, that increasingly rare breed whose energy and drive and discipline go into making pictures that reflect the highs of life on the New York stage
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Free Music, at Least While It Lasts – NYTimes.com
Free Music, at Least While It Lasts
The people who make all that yummy music are actually being loved to death by fans who expect it to be free.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/business/media/free-music-at-least-while-it-lasts.html
I hesitated when it came time to pony up and realized that, as just one more participant in the Something for Nothing economy, I’d grown accustomed to getting all sorts of lusciousness for the price of zero.