Laura Levine

“I’d always been into music—printing up fake press passes and sneaking my camera into concerts since the day I first picked up a camera,” the photographer Laura Levine told the New Yorker. “Typical New York City kid. I worked for all of the usual suspects—Rolling Stone, Creem, Trouser Press, Spin, Sounds, the New York Times—and, later, the record labels. But the publication I ended up working most closely with in the early eighties, during its brief but crucial existence, was the New York Rocker. The Rocker was way ahead of the game as far as knowing who was up and coming. I was their chief photographer and photo editor. We were a very tight-knit group who went to see gigs together, threw parties, and pulled all-nighters pasting up the issues for press. I probably did close to five hundred photo shoots by the time I stopped shooting, in 1994, and started painting.”

The Replacements - The time the Replacements stopped by my place for a beer