The Sumner Files, Episode Five: Arto Lindsay

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Apr 30, 202554:17Science & Medicine

As the front man in DNA, Arto Lindsay was one of the core No Wave figures from the start, and he and Sumner were good friends from the mid-1970s, when Arto arrived in NYC (along with Mark Cunningham and Connie Burg, from...

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