― scott seward, Sunday, 8 April 2012 01:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
what?!
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 8 April 2012 06:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, just read about this on Twitter. Anything more?
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 April 2012 14:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Looks like her sister posted here:
https://www.facebook.com/georgecchen/posts/10150622749120356
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 April 2012 14:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
as I said on Ned's FB, one of my only acts of booking a band that wasn't my own was getting charles atlas to open for cynthia at the bottom of the hill in SF. She hadn't played SF ... maybe ever? I figured it would be well attended (this was just around when her last/second album came out). It was the night before halloween, maybe in 2002 or 2001. No-one came. Like, NO-ONE; it was me, CA, Cynthia, Tim Green, and whoever else was backing her up. Nevertheless, that show was great and I'm really glad I got to see her. Why she did not have a much bigger following is beyond me.
― akm, Sunday, 8 April 2012 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
i loved her records.
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 8 April 2012 16:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
:(
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 8 April 2012 17:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
what on earth happened?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 8 April 2012 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
did she record anything other than her two drag city records?
― JacobSanders, Monday, 9 April 2012 01:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can't think of two albums that were more important to me than those two. genuinely sad.
― fffv, Monday, 9 April 2012 01:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was still hoping this would turn out not to be true but there it is on Pitchfork.
Is it really nearly ten years since "Sound Restores Young Men"? It doesn't feel like it.
RIP.
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 9 April 2012 13:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
A co-worker played Untitled shortly after it came out. After the first line, I had to have it. We were out of stock, so I walked down the street and bought it from a competitor.
― Andy K, Monday, 9 April 2012 16:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.dragcity.com/news/542
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 April 2012 16:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
ugh what the hell! RIP.
― tylerw, Monday, 9 April 2012 21:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
man
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 9 February 2013 06:41 (3 months ago) Permalink
ever any word on what happened? was she ill?
― akm, Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:06 (3 months ago) Permalink
not to encourage rampant speculation but I can imagine some causes of death that a family would choose to keep private
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:29 (3 months ago) Permalink
her wikipedia page mentions she suffered from epilepsy and elsewhere it said causes unknown so I'm going to guess it was medical issue.
― akm, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 02:23 (3 months ago) Permalink
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 14 February 2013 23:52 (3 months ago) Permalink
MY FAVORITE
― kate78, Friday, 15 February 2013 00:57 (3 months ago) Permalink
yeah still a bummer that she passed away, those records are great.
― tylerw, Friday, 15 February 2013 03:22 (3 months ago) Permalink