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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Lydia Lunch and Retrovirus

Lydia Lunch with Retrovirus band members Weasel Walter, Tim Dahl, and Kevin Shea.

February 7, 2023
1647 Weirfield St, Ridgewood, NY 11385

Lydia Lunch has been creating and performing transgressive art since the 1970s. Back then she was the front person of the no-wave group Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. Since then Lunch has continued to perform as a musician, poet, and visual artist. She’s collaborated with Sonic Youth, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Nels Cline, and is lately the bandleader of Retrovirus, an abrasive punk band that features an “all-star cast of sonic brutarians.” Retrovirus will take the stage at TV Eye in Ridgewood, Queens, for an evening of genre-defying head bangers. —Sophie Kemp

Photo: Jasmine Hirst