Both with his band Wall of Voodoo and on solo albums, Stan Ridgway is a vivid storyteller, bringing a noir style (and a distinctive vocal style and harmonica-playing) to tales of love, lust, unhappy ...

A double interview with two great songwriters together, Janis Ian and Stan Ridgway, about use of gender designation in song, and other issues. The following interview was conducted in 1999 though ...

Stan Ridgway has always recorded his own music, even back in his Wall of Voodoo days. "If we cannot control the means of production, then we're had. Then we're at the beck and call of people ...

In the early 1980s, Stan Ridgway's nasally vocals and eerie, marching keyboards propelled Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" up the charts. After a brief taste of success, the New Wave band -- whose ...

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How dry was Wall of Voodoo? Mummify the Talking Heads, then grind them up. Put the powder in neon tubes, and let them bake in a desert sunset. Serve with spaghetti-western sauce on the side. In 1982 ...

Stan Ridgway is not an artist who takes up a lot of pop culture bandwidth these days. You might know him as the lead singer of Wall of Voodoo, a New Wave band from Los Angeles that scored a hit called ...

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Stanard "Stan" Ridgway (born April 5, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter, and film and television composer known for his distinctive voice, dramatic lyrical narratives, and eclectic solo albums.