Dannie Flesher, co-founder of Chicago’s famed Wax Trax! Records, 1951-2010
Tweet This week saw the passing of a key figure in the ’80s and early-’90s industrial-dance scene: Dannie Flesher, co-founder of Chicago’s hugely influential Wax […]
Category: Obits
Rowland S. Howard, guitarist for Nick Cave’s The Birthday Party, 1959-2009
Tweet Australian guitar innovator Rowland S. Howard — a member of Nick Cave’s early ’80s postpunk act The Birthday Party, a guitarist for Crime and […]
Bruce Allen of The Suburbs, 1955-2009
Tweet Minneapolis this week lost a key figure in that city’s now-legendary ’80s underground rock scene: guitarist Bruce C. Allen of New Wave act The […]
Echo & The Bunnymen keyboard player Jake Drake-Brockman, 1956-2009
Former Echo & The Bunnymen keyboard player Jake Drake-Brockman — dubbed the “fifth Bunnyman” — was killed in a motorcycle accident on the Isle of […]
John Hughes, 1950-2009
Pitchfork: John Hughes R.I.P. Jim DeRogatis: John Hughes, writer, director and music fan Spin: Our 7 favorite John Hughes musical moments Kurt Loder: John Hughes, […]
Michael Jackson, 1958-2009
(We take a short break from our regularly scheduled programming to honor the passing of a true music legend, a man who, despite leading a […]
Pylon’s Randy Bewley, 1955-2009
This week saw the passing of Randy Bewley, guitarist for Pylon, early-’80s Athens, Ga., post-punk contemporaries of R.E.M. and the B-52’s. Bewley, 53, suffered a […]
