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andrewcsmith on 10/02/2009 at 12:41PM
PUNK: Alan Licht, Angela Jaeger, Pat Irwin & Cynthia Sley, Chris Brokaw
Alan Licht and Angela Jaeger provided their recollections of punk, new wave, no wave, and most of all New York in the 1980s. "Somehow, remembering every nuance of a bad new wave hit from the early eighties that I never felt much connection to gives me more pleasure than listening to a favorite punk single I haven't listened to in a while," Alan Licht said. These excerpts were taken from An Emotional Memoir of Martha Quinn, published by Drag City Press in 2000.
Check out Angela Jaeger's track, an excerpt from the punk diaries, to hear the voice of a teenager in the early 1980s and late 1970s, and the two tracks from Command V (Cynthia Sley and Pat Irwin), which are much more than a where-are-they-now stunt--the new-wavy Hello and the sincere Black Bag, especially.
Chris Brokaw's three tracks here are especially excellent. As Alan Licht introduced him, Brokaw is a part of the group of people Licht can count on one hand who are still making music, and of an even smaller set of people making interesting music.
Hear the full performance here or after the jump.
