Thurston, violinist, Alice Cooper w/ Cyrinda Foxe, Mapplethorpe & Patti Smith
By far the most engaging of the Purple Fashion journal insert series, STREET MOUTH, a diary of collages by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, is a moving testament to print collaboration.
Mohawk-ed Sonny Rollins, Avant-garde Japanese jazz, and Julius Hemphill
With snapshots and tales of Patti Smith, Lou Reed, the infamous Sable Starr, Television, Iggy & the Stooges, and many (many) obscure hardcore bands, and, um, Alice Cooper, as well as Thurston and Kim Gordon themselves, it is a bittersweet affect of lost and heartfelt memories.
Sable Starr with Iggy, Richard Hell, and the short-lived STAR glam rock mag
Special appearances from Lester Bangs, David Johansen, Sonny Rollins, Mike Watts, Kurt, William Burroughs, and The Sun Ra Arkestra abound, with photo commentaries sentimental and historical—lost NYC stories of the seventies and eighties.
On publication of Thurston’s book collaboration No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980, itself mostly an homage to Lydia Lunch and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, instead of “reading” at McNally Jackson, Thurston sat on a stool with a friend and just told stories about the ‘70s and ‘80s NYC underground party and punk scene, veering off into tangents, lost in stories along the way.
Lydon/Rotten & Lou Reed
Thurston / Moore / is / pretty / cool /
The Moore family, early ‘70s
