“Punk Professor” Vivien Goldman – The Noisettes feature in today’s New York Times

Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music instructor Vivien Goldman, who’s blessed us with innovative classes on Punk music, Reggae, and the history of Island Records, wrote a feature on multicultural British rock trio The Noisettes in today’s New York Times. You can read it here.

Vivien (pictured above on the left teaching a class, with famed special guest music entrepreneur/producer Joe Boyd, on the right) was also the subject of a The New York Review of Ideas feature this past summer. The article is called “Professor of Punk” and it gives a good overview of Vivien’s fantastically eclectic and rich career.

Most recently, Vivien has been writing for publications like the UK New Statesman and The Fader (did you see her David Byrne cover?). Her songwriting collaboration on the TAG project with Adriana Kaegi, (formerly of 1980s tropical funksters, Kid Creole and the Coconuts,) has also been making waves in the electro world.