From PRX.

This is Studio 360. I'm Kurt Anderson.

This is Jocelyn Gonzalez from Studio 360.

I've learned a lot about the records I love and don't love from classic album Sundays.

It's a program of listening events created by a broadcaster and journalist Colleen Cosmo Murphy,

which for a music fan can sometimes feel like going to church.

And that's fitting because they're always held on Sundays.

At these events I learned about an album from artists,

producers, and other smart music people.

Then, the lights went down, the phones went off,

and the audience listened to the album together, straight through.

No interruptions.

That's it, it seems really simple.

But hearing a record on pristine vinyl through a world-class sound system revealed things I never noticed before.

The experience was illuminating and often moving, even when the needle skipped.

To bring some of that album worship here to Studio 360, we're teaming up with CAS for a series of stories called This Woman's

Work, highlighting classic albums by female artists. The title you probably figured out

borrows from the song by Kate Bush, an artist we hope to feature in this series. These

records represent women musicians at the peak of their creative powers, and whose influences

felt all over the musical map.

And this first story focuses on one of the most significant albums of the American punk movement.

One that fused rock with free-form poetry and drew many into the artistic nexus of New York City in the mid-1970s.

...