The Village Voice

 USA

 
The contemporary explosion of anti-society, mass circulation newspapers and magazines was detonated, if belatedly, by the success of the Greenwich Village newspaper, The Village Voice. This was first published in October 1955 ... (Richard Neville, Playpower, 1970, p 125)

1966 December 01

Vol. 12 No. 7

 

The Pop Bag
By Robert Goldstein, p 32


The Balloon Farm became much more than a discotheque, last weekend and the resident combo became much more than a pop-music ensemble

The occasion was the first New York appearance of The Mothers Of Invention, from deepest freakiest L.A. They are the perfect embodiment of all that is super-hyped about West Coast rock.

Forget that one Mother wears a sweatshirt which advertises "Folk you" in bright buttonese. (read more)

 

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1967 May 25

Vol. 12 No. 32

 

21 Win '67 'Obies'
pp 24-25


<...> The afternoon began with 20 minutes of sophisticated raunch-rock by the Mothers of Invention, who opened this week in their own musical "Pigs and Repulsive [Repugnant]" at the Garrick Theatre on Bleecker Street. <...>

 

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