Phil Marcade’s ’70s NY Punk Memoir Is the Stuff of Legend From bumping heroin with Johnny Thunders, to hanging with Blondie and Nancy Spungen, Phil Marcade's punk memoir is the stuff of legend. By Justin Joffe
New York Is Still Lou Reed’s Town (You Just Live in It) I first met Lou Reed in 2008. He was standing on a street-corner in the Meat Packing District screaming into his cell phone. By John Kruth
RIP Suicide Frontman Alan Vega, the Beautiful Ghost of Rock ‘n’ Roll Future Alan Vega, who just passed at age 78, was deeply in touch with the darkness at the heart of our most euphoric music. By Tim Sommer