Michael Galinsky
Michael Galinsky is a filmmaker, photographer, and musician who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has been a contributor to The Sun for more than thirty years. He took the image on this month’s cover in Manhattan in the 1990s.
— From February 2023
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Stereolab plays at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, New Jersey, on their first visit to the U.S., 1992.
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Sleepyhead has an official band fight in Houston, Texas, on the band’s first cross-country tour. The photographer can be seen in the reflection, sitting in the van.
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While on tour, Sleepyhead spends the night in a former frat house in East Lansing, Michigan.
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Sonic Youth performs for an abortion-rights benefit concert at the Paradise in Boston, 1990.
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Nation of Ulysses at the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, Washington, in 1991.
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Jackie Arthur behind the bar at the Snake Snatch Lodge in Knoxville, Tennessee. After the show she would help the bands find a place to sleep.
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The Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 at CBGB, circa 1991.
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Backstage at CBGB in New York City during a Dungbeetle show. Dungbeetle played with the photographer’s band, Sleepyhead, many times over the years.
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In the early 1990s the photographer shared a 450-square-foot New York City apartment with two friends. The bathroom had no sink, so they hung a mirror above the stove.
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