Last year we dropped a quick word about “Somewhere Below 14th & East”, a new unique collection of Karen O’Sullivan’s photos, compiling over 150 images of artists active in New York in the 80s. The photography book about the early NYHC and downtown scene of the 1980s is finally available from Radio Raheem Records, and distributed by Deathwish, and to celebrate, we have teamed up with author Ray Parada to give you an insightful batch of details through his interview conducted with Jon Roa of End to End, Justice League, and EYELID! In the early 1980s, Karen O’Sullivan made her way from where she grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to the then-desolate Lower East Side to photograph the burgeoning scenes of Hardcore Punk and Hip Hop. Barring some of her images appearing in fa...
