The unwitting godfathers of industrial noise-squall return after a long absence to reclaim their throne on A Way of Life. Produced by Ric Ocasek, Suicide's Alan Vega and...
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Originally a cassette-only release, this live recording at Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis marked Rev and Vega's tenth anniversary. And while not as deliberately offensive...
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There was an aesthetic revolution implied in the coupling of Alan Vega's reckless rockabilly howling and the hypnotic buzz and drone of Martin Rev's keys, and that...
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When the word "document" is used to describe a reissue or some recently excavated live material, it's usually code for "completists only." That's the case with Attempted,...
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Proof that punk was more about attitude than a raw, guitar-driven sound, Suicide's self-titled debut set the duo apart from the rest of the style's self-proclaimed...
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Suicide was a sui generis attraction of the '70s New York punk scene.
Singer Alan Vega and electronic keyboard maestro Martin Rev piled up an
original style fashioned from...
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Mute's 2000 release of Suicide's Suicide/Live at CBGB's/23 Minutes Over Brussels is a double-disc set containing the influential art punk band's first album, a remix of...
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Suicide was a sui generis attraction of the '70s New York punk scene.
Singer Alan Vega and electronic keyboard maestro Martin Rev piled up an
original style fashioned from...
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Confusingly released in 1980 as Alan Vega/Martin Rev: Suicide, Mute reissued Suicide's second album as The Second Album in 2000. The reissue adds the "Dream Baby Dream"...
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At one time any performance by the Suicide duo of Alan Vega and Martin Rev was met with hostility. Not just a casually extended middle finger, but bottles and blood. Riots....
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Is American Supreme -- the first Suicide album in a decade -- an update, a return to form? Yes and no. Those who hang on Alan Vega's every streetwise grunt and growl will...
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Zero Hour compiles live performances Suicide gave in New York City and Berlin in the late '70s and early '80s. Although these live takes aren't drastically different from...
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