And as part of the summer series on albums celebrating their 50th anniversary, rock critic Ken Tucker is reviewing the New York Dolls' 1974 record "In Too Much Too Soon." It was the second album ...

The tension between teenybopper tropes and grimy urban reality is a recurring theme on the album—as if the lyrics in Grease had been re-written by Bukowski. Hardly any song on New York Dolls ...

New York Dolls singer David Johansen died on ... the rest of them like drag queens and hookers. The Dolls’ first album would inspire so many bands in the years that followed, from the Ramones ...

Blasts from the past; Lotti Golden’s 1969 soul-garage-psych “Motor-Cycle” is finally getting some long overdue attention. Glam rock band the New York Dolls gets a reissue of their debut album, plus ...

A decade later he joined the New York Dolls and their self-titled debut album was released in 1973. The controversial record cover featured the five male band members clad in wigs, make-up and ...

They scarcely lasted four years before they imploded. For context, the New York Dolls released their debut album the same year that the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality ...

I loved the place, and didn’t really have to alter my New York state of mind ... from Blondie plays on the new album. Was there a great rivalry between the Dolls and Blondie way back when?

David Johansen, the chameleonic and charismatic vocalist who fronted the New York Dolls and found solo success under the moniker Buster Poindexter, died on Friday, his publicist confirmed to NPR.