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Turned Out A Punk

Episode 270 - Lydia Lunch (Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Retrovirus, 8 Eyed Spy)

Turned Out A Punk

Turned Out A Punk

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This is what we live for! On this episode, Damian is joined by THE LEGEND LYDIA LUNCH to talk punk! Although Lydia doesn't identify or even really like punk, she certainly influenced a lot of it. Listen in to this NOT TO BE MISSED episode as Lydia talks about the difference between No Wave & Punk, working with Rowland S. Howard, collaborating with (the) Weirdos, Cinema Of Transgression & everything in between!
Did we mention it is not to be missed?

Find her podcast The Lydian Spin here:
and find her on Facebook here:
https://www.facebook.com/LydiaLunch/

Also Touched On:

No Wave, not punk

clubs with “pillowrooms”

the island of found souls

Meeting Stiv Bators in ’73

Sonic Reducer

Running away for the New York Dolls

Rock Magazines

the House of Guitars proto-punk

Loving drugs and not going to sleep

Goth when everybody was Glam

dreaming of Rollerderby

The rise of rap, punk and Trump

being over Iggy and Bowie

The Ramones being silly

going to Richard Hell and the Voidoids’ first show

Mink DeVille

Union Carbine

Suicide did not fit in

Joe Coleman and the Steel Tips

Mars was the first No Wave band

having to go to Europe

Playing with Generation X

13:13

Cinema Of Transgression and No Wave: one movement

& SO MUCH MORE!!!



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and feeding me and the kids. So, Hello and welcome to another edition of Turn Out of Punk.

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I'm your host, Damien Abraham, and once again I am bringing you a conversation with someone who

2:18.0

grew up with us into Punk, may or not still be involved in Punk, but had their life changed by the genre in a major way. And today on the show someone who does not identify as a punk at all

2:27.2

but someone who is no doubt a major influence on this genre someone who influences so much, someone who I've wanted to

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have on this show since before its inception, someone I've always wanted to talk to

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