{"id":7680,"date":"2016-08-13T00:43:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T07:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7680"},"modified":"2016-08-10T12:46:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T19:46:19","slug":"it-came-from-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/13\/it-came-from-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"It Came From NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2016\/08\/it-came-from-nyc-remembers-when-white-zombie-ruled-noise-rock-not-hot-topic\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Observer<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>\u2018It Came From NYC\u2019 Remembers When White Zombie Ruled Noise Rock (Not Hot Topic)<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a class=\"url fn n\" title=\"View All Posts by Ron Hart\" href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/author\/ron-hart\/\" rel=\"author\">Ron Hart<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-745662\" title=\"It Came From NYC Remembers When White Zombie Ruled Noise Rock (Not Hot Topic)\" src=\"https:\/\/nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/08\/wz_88_005.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=635\" alt=\"White Zombie.\" width=\"480\" \/><em>White Zombie.\u00a0(Photo: Jay Brown)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For many who grew up in the New York City area during the Koch and Dinkins eras, the local underground was always a din of rust, rage and creativity informed by the squalor of its surroundings. Sunday afternoons at CBGB and Saturday nights on the Bowery were a far saltier way to spend your weekend, proving\u00a0to be more like an exercise in survival than a casual opportunity to catch a show on a free day.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen or more years on, it\u2019s hard to imagine such cultural inhabitation existing on the sanitized streets of this rapidly gentrified metropolis, a place where Vampire Weekend and Animal Collective would\u2019ve been held at knifepoint\u00a0in a dark alley near the Williamsburg Bridge and jacked for their vintage Hush Puppies.<\/p>\n<p>In spite\u00a0of the grit, or arguably\u00a0because of it, this period marked one of the city\u2019s most fruitful times in underground music, a time\u00a0when some of the most savage and innovative acts in metal, punk and hardcore converged on the stages of such fabled venues as The Pyramid Club, L\u2019Amour and ABC No Rio. Pussy Galore. Cop Shoot Cop. Swans. Unsane. Live Skull. Sonic Youth. White Zombie.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, what?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right, kids. Before they became the Beavis-approved, platinum-certified, Grammy-nominated alt-metal juggernaut of the 1990s, White Zombie first existed as a noise band assembled\u00a0by a quartet of students from New York\u2019s Parsons School of Design in search of a way to conjure the elements of Butthole Surfers, Black Flag, The Doors, The Birthday Party and X into one cacophonous brew. When those passions were\u00a0cross-referenced with the interests of frontman Rob Straker (now Zombie), particularly his love for both The Misfits and Italian horror films, the band\u2019s image stuck out from the masses of torn denim like a fluorescent green thumb.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2016\/08\/it-came-from-nyc-remembers-when-white-zombie-ruled-noise-rock-not-hot-topic\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Observer \u2018It Came From NYC\u2019 Remembers When White Zombie Ruled Noise Rock (Not Hot Topic) By\u00a0Ron Hart White Zombie.\u00a0(Photo: Jay Brown) For many who grew up in the New York City area during the Koch and Dinkins eras, the local underground was always a din of rust, rage and creativity informed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}