On Tuesday, October 21, at Café Carlyle, the great Buster Poindexter performs. Poindexter is best known for “Hot Hot Hot,” the one song that subway-platform steel-drum performers play that isn’t ...

David Johansen, a genre-shifting musical nomad who roared to fame in thrift-store drag as leader of the proto-punk New York Dolls and later donned a tuxedo and took the name Buster Poindexter with ...

After the New York Dolls’ initial split in 1976, Johansen launched a moderately successful solo career. In the 1980s, Johansen enjoyed his greatest commercial success when he began recording under the ...

NEW YORK — David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls who later performed as his campy, pompadoured alter ego, Buster ...

David Johansen, the versatile, multitalented lead singer and last surviving original member of the seminal proto-glam-punk band New York Dolls who also found fame in the 1980s and '90s as the ...

David Johansen, lead singer for the New York Dolls, died at the age of 75 on February 28, reports the New York Times. He was the last surviving member of the original 1971 lineup for the band. Last ...