according to facebook friends of mine who would know, she is no longer with us. but no official word...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGrxW6gkyzI
― scott seward, Sunday, 8 April 2012 01:04 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xek3YXXeDQ
― scott seward, Sunday, 8 April 2012 01:06 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIaawyRKFxk&feature=related
― scott seward, Sunday, 8 April 2012 01:10 (fourteen years ago)
what?!
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 8 April 2012 06:00 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah, just read about this on Twitter. Anything more?
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 April 2012 14:00 (fourteen years ago)
Looks like her sister posted here:
https://www.facebook.com/georgecchen/posts/10150622749120356
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 April 2012 14:04 (fourteen years ago)
as I said on Ned's FB, one of my only acts of booking a band that wasn't my own was getting charles atlas to open for cynthia at the bottom of the hill in SF. She hadn't played SF ... maybe ever? I figured it would be well attended (this was just around when her last/second album came out). It was the night before halloween, maybe in 2002 or 2001. No-one came. Like, NO-ONE; it was me, CA, Cynthia, Tim Green, and whoever else was backing her up. Nevertheless, that show was great and I'm really glad I got to see her. Why she did not have a much bigger following is beyond me.
― akm, Sunday, 8 April 2012 14:59 (fourteen years ago)
i loved her records.
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 8 April 2012 16:24 (fourteen years ago)
:(
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 8 April 2012 17:09 (fourteen years ago)
what on earth happened?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 8 April 2012 17:26 (fourteen years ago)
did she record anything other than her two drag city records?
― JacobSanders, Monday, 9 April 2012 01:33 (fourteen years ago)
I can't think of two albums that were more important to me than those two. genuinely sad.
― fffv, Monday, 9 April 2012 01:50 (fourteen years ago)
I was still hoping this would turn out not to be true but there it is on Pitchfork.
Is it really nearly ten years since "Sound Restores Young Men"? It doesn't feel like it.
RIP.
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 9 April 2012 13:09 (fourteen years ago)
A co-worker played Untitled shortly after it came out. After the first line, I had to have it. We were out of stock, so I walked down the street and bought it from a competitor.
― Andy K, Monday, 9 April 2012 16:15 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.dragcity.com/news/542
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 April 2012 16:51 (fourteen years ago)
ugh what the hell! RIP.
― tylerw, Monday, 9 April 2012 21:52 (fourteen years ago)
man
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:56 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4am1AOKCChA
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:09 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo_uhX1jRIQ
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 9 February 2013 06:41 (thirteen years ago)
ever any word on what happened? was she ill?
― akm, Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:06 (thirteen years ago)
not to encourage rampant speculation but I can imagine some causes of death that a family would choose to keep private
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:29 (thirteen years ago)
her wikipedia page mentions she suffered from epilepsy and elsewhere it said causes unknown so I'm going to guess it was medical issue.
― akm, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 02:23 (thirteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_igBxu4GN5A
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 14 February 2013 23:52 (thirteen years ago)
MY FAVORITE
― kate78, Friday, 15 February 2013 00:57 (thirteen years ago)
yeah still a bummer that she passed away, those records are great.
― tylerw, Friday, 15 February 2013 03:22 (thirteen years ago)
Was thinking of her today and found this! her and Bill from '95https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqT2djn-m2Q
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 19:00 (ten years ago)
Was relistening to her debut Untitled after she was brought up the Jim O'Rourke thread. She was great, and I wish there was more of her music. Here's footage from when she was in Smog from the Fast Forward festival in 1994, including them doing what was her debut on record "Wine Stained Lips" the b-side of the A Hit single.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4am1AOKCChA
― city worker, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 13:49 (six years ago)