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In the Fried Archives: James Chance

In the Fried Archives: James Chance

From 2003: Pills, Thrills, and being terrified of the late no wave legend at the House of Usher

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James Chance passed away earlier this week. Back in early 2003, Ryan Pitchfork asked me to go interview him at his apartment in the purgatory that is the Upper West Side on the occasion of a long-overdue CD box set. As a rather recent Brooklyn transplant, I got nosebleeds if I ever went north of the L and I was slightly bewildered to be this far uptown.…

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