R.I.P. Blondie drummer Clem Burke, 1954-2025

Sadly, Clem Burke – longtime Blondie drummer who played with Pete Townshend, Iggy Pop, Empty Hearts and others has passed away after a battle with cancer. 

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Rolling Stone Clem Burke, Blondie drummer dead at 70

Watch Blondie live in Tokyo, 1978 and other classic early performances

Celebrating Debbie Harry's birthday with a few fab early Blondie performances including a Tokyo appearance in January 1978. 

Blondie's Chris Stein releases new memoir Under A Rock

Chris Stein used the pandemic lockdown to write an intriguing memoir Under A Rock available now. Get it here.   

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Forbes Blondie's Chris Stein on his influential band's career via his new memoir

The Vinyl District The Chris Stein interview

Happy Birthday Chris Stein!

Here's Blondie's Chris Stein & Debbie Harry chatting with Merv Griffin in 1981 and the BBC doc, When Blondie Came To Britain. 

Watch out – Blondie's Chris Stein just penned a memoir!

Chris Stein had a ringside seat in NYC for all the shenanigans surrounding the advent of punk rock, disco, new wave and hip hop. This should be good.   

Here's the scoop...

Debbie Harry defined iconic band Blondie’s look. Chris Stein—her performing partner, lover, and lifelong friend—was its architect and defined its sound. “Parallel Lines”, their third album, catapulted to #1, sold 20 million copies, and launched singles like “Heart of Glass”, “Rapture,” and “One Way or Another”, providing the beat when Bianca Jagger and Halston danced at Studio 54 and the soundtrack to every 1970’s punk-soundtracked romance.

Chris Stein knows how to tell a story. Under A Rock is his nothing-spared autobiography. It's about the founding of the band, ascending to the heights of pop success, and the hazards of fortune.

Famous names march through these pages—Warhol, Bowie, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and more–but you can get famous names anywhere. What you can’t get anywhere else is a plunge into the moments that made a giant 1980's artistic sensation. Stein takes us there in this revelatory, propulsive, distinctive memoir. 

Adds Chris Stein: "I'm quite looking forward to people interacting with this. Be prepared to look stuff up. Also there's a lot of weird ass stuff that might seem made up but really actually happened. Out next year."

Pre-order a copy of Chris Stein's memoir Under A Rock (St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 9781250286727) in hardcover or digital audio right here. 

Watch Rob Roth's recent hour-long chat with Chris Stein and Debbie Harry in Los Angeles and a 2002 chat with Rolling Stone music writer David Wild below.  

That time Blondie flirted with country music back in 1980

Here's an early version of Blondie's "Go Through It' called "I Love You Honey, Give Me A Beer" from their forthcoming box set. 

Happy Birthday Debbie Harry!

Cheers to Debbie Harry! Here's a chat about her "Face It" memoir and an unboxing of Blondie's new Against The Odds anthology. 

Happy Birthday Chris Stein!

Celebrating the birthday of musician and photographer Chris Stein with a Blondie performance from '78 and a couple of interviews. 

Goodbye to NYC's historic East River Park Amphitheater!

Along with Sonny Rollins gigs in 1962, East River Park Amphitheatre was the site of the climactic hip hop concert in Wild Style.

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Gothamist City Demolition of East River Park Amphitheater Underway

Happy Birthday Chris Stein!

Cheers to Blondie mainman and photographer deluxe Chris Stein on his 70th birthday! 

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Morrison Hotel Gallery – Chris Stein's photographs

Watch A Short Film About Suicide

Alan Vega and Martin Rev tell the story of Suicide in 15 minutes.