HeyJaredValerie Simadis
Valerie Simadis is a music journalist and contributor to Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s website pleasekillme.com. Recently, her work was featured in The Beach Boys’ anthology The Beach Boys by The Beach Boys (released by Genesis Publications).
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FROM SONIC YOUTH TO PUSSY GALORE: BOB BERT DEBUTS HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM ‘BEACH BONGO BLOODBATH’ (opens the original)
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By Valerie SimadisBob Bert has been a prominent figure in the No wave music scene since the early eighties. Hailing from Hoboken, New Jersey, Bob trained to become a fine artist and eventually came to work for Andy Warhol in New York City. In the midst of printing silkscreens for Warhol, Bob joined forces with Sonic Youth, and went on to play with a diverse mix of No wave New York legends, from Lydia Lunch and Pussy Galore to Chrome Cranks, Five Dollar Priest, and Knoxville Girls. “I will say th
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