Hot Hot Hot” was a hit single by Buster Poindexter on the Billboard Hot 100, eventually reaching 45 on the list. I vividly recall first hearing ...

Thanks, boss. Yes, there are the proto-punk records from the likes of the Dolls, the Stooges and MC5, but really, in 1976, ...

Love Rocks NYC benefit concert featured an unforgettable Cher performance, a Peter Frampton-Trey Anastasio jam, and many more highlights.

The February 28, 2025, passing of David Johansen compels memories of how joyous an experience it was to see the former New ...

My wife, Carola Dibbell, reviewed it for The Village Voice, providing a firsthand historical account of how Johansen presented himself in what was already a bleak time for him: “Too smart not to ...

As the front man of the New York Dolls, Johansen was instrumental in the genesis of punk in the nineteen-seventies. His solo ...

David Johansen, who made history as the frontman of the New York Dolls and as Buster Poindexter, has died at 75.

I bring this up because the Dolls frontman David Johansen, one of rock music’s great minor figures, died Friday at the age of 75, and music fans have been wondering about the Dolls' performance in ...

Goodbye to David Johansen, the last jet boy standing from the New York Dolls. It wasn’t just his madman energy that helped invent punk rock — it was his warmth and soul. He got a loving send-off in ...

He was the frontman of the New York Dolls, an adventurous solo performer and the lounge act Buster Poindexter. Listen to highlights from his eclectic catalog.

One of them was “I’m Still Here,” Walter Salles’ acclaimed true-life drama, set in Brazil in 1970, about a family whose exuberant and loving existence falls off a cliff when the father ...

Or you can be like David Jablinowitz ... my family here. I grew up in New York. On our first visit to Israel, an Israeli relative took us to the Mount of Olives on the final night of our trip ...