This review was originally published in the April 17, 1980 issue of Rolling Stone. The other four New York Dolls usually looked like they’d been sentenced to be in the world’s weirdest band, but Sylvain Sylvain always seemed as if he were there by choice. He might have been you …
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Two and a half minutes of careening punk-metal bile, Binky Philips and the Planets’ “Splitsville for Bust” sounds like somethingthat could have been heard blaring out of a downtown New York club in the early Seventies. And there’s a reason for that: It’s a new and inordinately hooky rocker from …
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New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain revealed that he has been battling cancer for the past year and has launched a GoFundMe to help pay for an upcoming surgery and recovery. Sylvain didn’t offer many details about the cancer, but said he hoped his upcoming surgery would “do the trick.” …
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