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GONE, (SPEEDBALL) BABY, GONE

In the ’90s, NYC rock ’n’ roll was a different kind of grunge(y)

June 1, 2025
Ali Smith

"But nothing really happened in the ’90s in the New York music scene, did it?”

I’m being interviewed by a young slip of a thing about my memoir The Ballad of Speedball Baby, which is all about that caustic, thrilling, sharp-edged, and—yes, I’ll say it—influential era. About the frenetic, jangled chaos and the wild fun of it and my navigating it all as a woman. And my interviewer has begun our conversation with those words, which will soon become scratched, indelibly, onto the walls of my innermost sense of self.

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