Music
When you listen to the just-released “The David Johansen Group Live” album, you notice how limited a vocalist Johansen was back in the ‘70s--and how little it mattered.
April 2, 1993
Awards
After catching the musician’s act, the director saw a “poignancy to it, and a beauty.” He was inspired to make “Personality Crisis: One Night Only,” a performance film as ode to a lifetime of rock iconoclasm.
June 19, 2023
Television
In ‘Personality Crisis: One Night Only,’ premiering Friday, Scorsese and co-director David Tedeschi illuminate a nexus of New York alternative scenes.
April 14, 2023
The ever-evolving David Johansen is embracing the blues while also maintaining bands devoted to his past incarnations.
Sept. 16, 2003
David Johansen, no stranger to the blues as a lipsticked glam-punk with the New York Dolls or as his loungey alter ego, Buster Poindexter, remembers when he rediscovered American roots music.
Sept. 11, 2003
Band: Buster Poindexter & His Banshees of Blue.
Jan. 3, 1988
Hockey
No matter what Predators center Ryan Johansen thinks, Ryan Kesler still has the support of his family and friends.
May 16, 2017
More than a decade after he formed the colorful New York Dolls, David Johansen is still dressing up in funny clothes and imitating other people’s music.
Nov. 21, 1987
Entertainment & Arts
THE BUSTER BEAT: Buster Poindexter has the movie bug--and he’s given it to David Johansen.
Jan. 24, 1988
Like many of the blues and folk originators to whom David Johansen paid homage during his concert Saturday at the Getty Center’s Harold M.
May 12, 2003