David Johansen, the glam rock singer and proto-punk icon, led the New York Dolls and forever changed rock music.

Fiends, lovers and the people who knew him best reveal the man behind Johnny Thunders, New York Doll-turned-junkie poster boy ...

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit downtown New York in the early 1970s and the ...

Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P., heavy metal front man best known for mock-torturing women onstage, has some thoughts about ...

This upcoming show in October will feature performances of the self-titled debut albums of both the New York Dolls and The ...

In their loft at 266 Bowery, lived in by Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, along with a lodging Gary Lachman, they’d developed their idiosyncratic sound in intensive rehearsals that threw together the ...

With his ripped t-shirts and slogans, Hell heavily influenced the punk scene that subsequently began in London (Malcolm McClaren was on the scene, managing the New York Dolls before he managed Sex ...

As the front man of the New York Dolls, Johansen was instrumental in the genesis of punk in the nineteen-seventies. His solo work was equally audacious. From the daily newsletter: a playlist for ...

singer from the seminal punk band the New York Dolls, dies at 75 One of his career highlights came during 1983’s “Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever.” Mischer directed the television ...