Zachary Lipez

1 month ago | zacharylipez.ghost.io | Zachary Lipez

1. The death of David Johansen, nurtural Poindexter, the lead singer of the New York Dolls, was announced in the early hours of March 1st, first by Morrissey, then by Tim Burgess of The Charlatans, then by Laughing Hyenas/Negative Approach’s John Brannon. Out of the still living, it’s hard to imagine a more appropriate throuple to break the bad news.

2 months ago | zacharylipez.ghost.io | Zachary Lipez

Punk is a genre of music, a fashion, and a lifestyle. Depending on who you ask, punk began in the mid ‘60s in Lima, Peru with Los Saicos, in the late ‘60s/early ‘70s in Detroit, with the Stooges, MC5, and Death, in the mid ‘70s, in Cleveland and NYC, with Rocket From the Tombs, the Ramones, Patti Smith, and Richard Hell (and about fifty others), or punk, as we understand it today, “actually” started in the UK with Malcolm McLaren, Vivienne Westwood, and the Sex Pistols.

Jan 24, 2025 | zacharylipez.ghost.io | Zachary Lipez

Dear Abundant Livers, As regular readers know, I post an anniversary poem for Zohra every year. Usually in December, occasionally in January (we have a complicated chronology). This year it's a bit late, but I think it turned out swell (and fwiw Zohra agrees). So... this newsletter is a poem.

Dec 3, 2024 | miamimusicbuzz.com | Zachary Lipez

Solving rock music with Elias Rønnenfelt An afternoon chat with the Iceage frontman covers his debut solo album Heavy Glory, God, and the place for a certain kind of icon in 2024. Elias Rønnenfelt is the kind of rock star we don’t see much of nowadays, and not just because the “star” part of the equation depends on the metric we’re using. There is, after all, some air between being celestially famous, being almost famous, and being mostly famous amongst certain cultural subsets.

Nov 14, 2024 | thequietus.com | Patrick Clarke |Zachary Lipez

If there’s a band that makes me regret the ruination of the good and noble word “hipster,” it’s TV On The Radio. The term used to have a charm and utility. In Nile Rodgers’ autobiography, Le Freak, the author describes both his mother and father as hipsters.