Freddy Alva F
Hello Freddy! What’s up in New York? How do you survive the whole Covid-19 crisis?
reddy Alva is an aficionado of hardcore music (especially NYHC) and graffiti. He has released the legendary New Breed compilation back in 1989 (and the documentary that followed 27 years later), runs Wardance Records, and is the creative mind between Urban Styles book, NYHC Black Book and American Hardcore Black Book, all presenting the strong relationship that hardcore music and graffiti art have. This is the first interview I’ve done for the 2nd issue of the fanzine and Freddy was the fastest one (among all the interviewees) to reply. Check out what he has to say upon graffiti, hardcore and NY.
Hey man, things are getting worse every day here in NYC, as you well know being in Europe, the forecast is pretty grim all around. Doing things like this interview keeps me from looking at the non-stop news channels so thank you for that! In all seriousness; we will all survive this & it will hopefully be, one day, just a ‘remember when’ anecdote... Give us a brief CV of yours? When did your involvement with the hardcore scene start and when did graffiti draw your attention?
Interview conducted in late March 2020. Pics and artwork provided by Freddy Alva.
I got into HC during my sophomore year of high school due to 2 reasons: I’d always been heavily into listening to as much music as possible & that led me from new wave stuff like Billy Idol to more punky sounds like The
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