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James Chance, No Wave and Punk-Funk Pioneer, Dies at 71
Posted inCBGB Chance, James (1953- ) Contortions East Village (Manhattan, NY) Jazz Music Pop and Rock Music Saxophones

James Chance, No Wave and Punk-Funk Pioneer, Dies at 71

With the Contortions and James White and the Blacks, the songwriter and saxophonist set out to challenge musicians and stir up audiences.
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Posted by By Jon Pareles
Tom Verlaine, Influential Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 73
Posted inCBGB Deaths (Obituaries) Poetry and Poets Pop and Rock Music Television (Music Group) Verlaine, Tom

Tom Verlaine, Influential Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 73

He first attracted attention with the band Television, a fixture of the New York punk rock scene. But his music wasn’t so easily categorized.
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Posted by By Peter Keepnews
Tom Verlaine, Influential Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 73
Posted inCBGB Deaths (Obituaries) Poetry and Poets Pop and Rock Music Television (Music Group) Verlaine, Tom

Tom Verlaine, Influential Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 73

He first attracted attention with the band Television, a fixture of the New York punk rock scene. But his music wasn’t so easily categorized.
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Posted by By Peter Keepnews
Robert Gordon, Punk Rocker Turned Rockabilly Revivalist, Dies at 75
Posted inBowery (Manhattan, NY) CBGB Deaths (Obituaries) Gordon, Robert (1947-2022) Nineteen Hundred Eighties Nineteen Hundred Fifties Pop and Rock Music

Robert Gordon, Punk Rocker Turned Rockabilly Revivalist, Dies at 75

Weary of the angry and aggressive sound of New York’s musical underground of the late 1970s, he returned to rock’s roots and seeded a rockabilly revival.
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Posted by By Alex Williams

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