Chris Stein is both a member of the rock band Blondie and a photographer whose work is featured in Who Shot Rock & Roll. Using DrumCore, he composed Who Shot Drums and Bass, eight tracks in various musical styles.
These tracks are provided under a Creative Commons license, and we want you to remix them. Re-imagine Stein's music to create something catchy and original. For more details and to register - Brooklyn Museum
Germany's Glitterhouse label will be releasing a tribute to late Gun Club mainman Jeffrey Lee Pierce on January 11. "We Are Only Riders - The JLP Sessions Project" features an all-star cast of musicians, many of whom were friends of or collaborators with Pierce. Debbie Harry has recorded two tracks for the album, 'Lucky Jim' and a duet with Nick Cave 'Free To Walk' - more
Coming in March 2010, Converse is releasing Blondie Chuck Taylors!.
Youth Music are celebrating their 10th birthday with a series of shows alongside a special exhibition of photographs from Rankin. Destroy / Rankin sees artists such as Kylie Minogue, Debbie Harry, U2 and Michael Stipe creating their own unique interpretations of photographer Rankin's iconic photographs of musicians. More than 70 of the world's biggest musicians and visual artists have created a new body of artwork that will be exhibited and auctioned to support the youth charity as part of Phillips De Pury's inaugural Music Sale. - more
“I love the original shot and it reminded me of the day we shot it at the offices of Dazed & Confused where everything was just so. My desire to reconfigure the shot is just, you know, how I feel about my own image sometimes as being ‘extra-personal’.”
‘Destroy 1 - 6’ by Debbie Harry
Professional inkjet print on archival paper / mixed media, collage, oil paint All Editions 1/1
Framed 20 x 24 inches
2009
Auction -14th November 2009, Phillips de Pury, London
Great interview with Deborah from 2003 - click on images to view!
OCTOBER
30 Casino Nova Scotia - Schooner Showroom, Nova Scotia
31 Casino Nova Scotia - Schooner Showroom, Nova Scotia
NOVEMBER
21 Washington Hilton - 29th Annual Kidney Ball
FEBRUARY 19 Biloxi, MS - IP Casino Resort & Spa
check Blondie/Myspace & Blondieforum for more info!
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Blondie will play at the Brooklyn Museum at the Oct. 29 opening night reception for the exhibition "Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present." Unfortunately, the night will be members only. But you can join the museum as late as the day of the concert. - more
You are a musician as well as a photographer, which gives you a unique insight into the relationship between photography and music. How do you feel the image impacts the listener’s understanding of the music?
Chris Stein: I have never figured out or decided if image was a plus or a minus when it comes to defining one’s musical style. I often say in interviews that when I was a teenager “most of my heroes were 60 year old black men.” This of course is a reference to trends that embrace only youth and fancy fashion as the mark of success. Recently much was made of the dowdy matron who appeared on some TV talent show and was endowed with a terrific singing voice. But there the context was all about her unattractiveness, which then became her selling point thereby negating the whole argument. Very weird!
Who Shot Rock & Roll by Gail Buckland (Knopf, October 2009, $40). An exhibition of work from the book will launch at the Brooklyn Museum on October 30 and tour the United States through 2011.
Did you really tell Debbie Harry that everybody’s fly?
Yes I certainly did. I used to explain hip-hop to Debbie and I told her Flash was the fastest DJ and different things like that. When she made the record ['Rapture'], I realized she remembered everything I told her, but said it in the song in her own special way. - read more at Fab 5 Freddy.com
Going into Tuesday night’s Blondie concert at Crossroads KC, I figured that if the band just showed up and Debbie Harry didn’t look like she needed to sit down, the crowd would still be able to get into the old hits. As things turned out, nearly 2,000 fans indeed reveled in the dance-friendly sounds of New Wave Past. But Harry and company did more than merely eke out another paycheck.
The band rocked, emphatically at times – especially original drummer Clem Burke, whose busy poundings and flourishes supplied the same solid foundation as on the records. And Harry showed that she still had it going on more than 30 years after her arresting looks and coquettish persona helped lead Blondie to international stardom. - read more at KC Confidential
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