Tag Archives: Alan Vega / Alex Chilto – Cubist Blues

One half from the seminal digital duo Suicide, Alan Vega was created in Brooklyn, NY, in 1938. He started his career like a visible artist, getting notoriety for his “light sculptures”; ultimately Vega opened up his personal lower Manhattan gallery space, which he dubbed the Task of Living Performers. The …

Within a business that reinvents itself at every turn, Alex Chilton thrived for four decades using a three-fold career — his early recordings using the Box Tops, the albums he did with Big Star within the middle-’70s and following the group re-formed with a fresh lineup in 1993, as well …

Retro-rocker Ben Vaughn enticed interest for his faithful re-creations of pre-Beatles rock and roll & move, pop, and root base music, which had been filtered through his quirky love of life. Vaughn was raised in Philadelphia and performed drums in the neighborhood punk music group the Sickidz in 1980. 2 …