Suicide

When artist/sculptor Alan Vega and keyboardist Martin Rev began performing at New York's Mercer Arts Center (then home to the New York Dolls), they were ahead of their time. Suicide based its music on Rev's repetitive wall-of-noise keyboards (initially a broken Farfisa organ) and pneumatic rhythm machines, with Vega's Presley-ish vocals providing a link to rock & roll tradition. But Vega also brou...