The Birthday Party

This article originally appeared in the July 1987 issue of SPIN. It was the very last edition of The Tube, the most interesting…

Though the members of Sonic Youth, Swans, and The Birthday Party are all still around making music under various guises, they're all pretty far removed…

To celebrate the new generation of shredders profiled in our May/June "Loud Issue," the SPIN staff decided to find some wheedle in a haystack, taking…