Arthur Russell

From the project name to the album title to the beautiful hair framing Adam Bainbridge's face on the cover to the competently percolating grooves, everything about Kindness ' World, You Need a Change of Mind goes down easy. Read More

In 1990, documentarian Jennie Livingston released Paris Is Burning , a poignant film about the patrons of the then-still-burgeoning vogue ball scene. Read More

Musician Arthur Russell was a mainstay of the New York City downtown avant-garde who in the 1970s and 1980s experimented with underground disco, post-punk pop, no-wave, folk, minimalist classical and almost every genre that flowed through that hugely influential scene. Read More

Without the internet and the relatively young concept of reissue labels, few people would ever come to know the genius of Arthur Russell , a true innovator of dance music and modern composition, who played major roles in New York's disco and avant garde scenes of the '70s and was almost a fifth member of Talking Heads. Read More