Blog: NPR Music: Monitor Mix

On Friday, I saw Viv Albertine of The Slits , Softpower (featuring Mary Timony ) and The Raincoats play at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn. How do I feel? Lucky. As I wrote about last week on this blog , The Raincoats influenced nearly every single musician that sprang forth from Olympia and from countless other similar towns and scenes across the US. Needless to say -- or perhaps I do need to say it -- so did The Slits. So, at the [...]