One more stroll down Destiny Street? Sure, why not? Ever since its release in 1982, Richard Hell has been dissatisfied with his second and final album with the Voidoids. The double-disc Destiny Street Complete is likely his last attempt at getting it right, presenting the original album, a re-do, a remix, and raw demos.
Category: Richard Hell
Ork Records :: Complete Singles
If there’s a thick wad of cash burning a hole in your pocket come National Record Store Day this year, you could certainly do a lot worse than scooping up this collection of lovingly reproduced 7-inches via the always reliable Numero Group . Ork Records, briefly, was […]
Richard Hell & The Voidoids :: CBGB, NYC, November 19, 1976
By the end of 1976, Richard Hell had co-founded two of the most important bands of New York’s fertile underground music scene — Television and The Heartbreakers . He’d also been kicked out of both of them (or he left […]
Richard Hell :: I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp
Autobiographies, like most non-fiction, are tricky. Their subject matter require inherent interest — maybe even passion — marginalizing most audiences. The best autobiographies circumvent that demand by having a lot in common with good fiction […]
Sevens :: Richard Hell: Blank Generation
(Sevens, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) My first exposure to a lot of things punk was the late music critic Robert Palmer’s Rock and Roll: An Unruly History , which was […]