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Dash Snow: the latest 27

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:26:22 +0000

Visual artist Dash Snow who became notorious for his graffiti around New York City died today from a drug overdose aged 27. Dash is the latest in a string of nearly 40 significant artist deaths at 27 over the last century. Other famous 27s include Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and members of the Grateful Dead, Big Star, Badfinger, the Stooges, Echo & the Bunnymen, the Manic Street Preachers, and The Mars Volta.

Dash Snow’s death was confirmed earlier today by his grandmother, Christophe de Menil, an art collector and philanthropist.

He was a hard-living soul who will was already an underground legend thanks to his muse-like status in photographer Colen McGinley’s drug addled and intimate work.

Dash often made collages that he assembled from found images and also used video and his own photography in exhibitions in NYC, Los Angeles, and London.

New York Magazine ran a feature about Dash and his crew titled “Warhol’s Children” January 7, 2007.

In 1988 Jean-Michel Basqiuat, modern art’s graffiti genius (and friend of Andy Warhol), died from a drug overdose aged 27 as well.

Samadhi Creations’ award-winning non-fiction graphic novel “The 27s: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll,” which was published to great acclaim earlier this year, retells the history of rock & roll seen through the lives and legacies of the three-dozen musicians who each died at the age of 27.

NPR interview on Facebook

admin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:02:35 +0000

Parts of Eric Segalstad’s interview with NPR’s Robert Smith about The 27s is posted here, at least an hour before it officially airs on All Things Considered.

Interview on WNEW.com

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:45:20 +0000

New York’s greatest rock station recently posted an interview with 27s creators Eric Segalstad and Josh Hunter. Read it online at WNEW.com. A big thanks goes out to our friends at WNEW for all their support!

27s week on WNEW!

admin — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:44:38 +0000

We’re honored that one of the best rock radio stations in the country will be hosting a 27s week all week. If you’re in the New York Metro area be sure to tune in to 102.7 FM to listen to music by most of The 27s, as well as a chance to win signed copies of The 27s: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll.

If you don’t live around the Big Apple you can listen in at wnew.com for live streams. While there, be sure to check out WNEW’s blog for custom 27s artwork and exclusive excerpts from the book. Think Uriah Heep’s Gary Thain, Badfinger’s Pete Ham, and more.

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