Best known for their 1980 hit “Turning Japanese” The Vapors are a band that formed in 1979, Guildford UK, which is also home to The Stranglers. They were brought to a larger UK audience with a support slot on The Jam’s iconic 1979 “Setting Sons”tour, and were by then managed by The Jam’s Bruce Foxton and Paul Weller’s father John. Their debut album…

Julia Gorton started her career as the photographer, creative director + publisher of the No Wave fanzine Beat It!, which offered an insiders view of the downtown New York music scene, 1976-1980. She recently published a compilation of issues and her book, Nowhere New York offers a visceral view of the scene through her photographs, writing and gue…