Chris Whitley "Din Of Ecstasy" 2025-10-31 and the winking

and the winking

weed-smoked

home of The Adolescents' legendary debut

Inspired by the piano-driven rock from the late '70s and early '80s

Chris Whitley "Din Of Ecstasy" 2025-10-31 and the winkingChris Whitley was an artist with his feet planted in two very different worlds. On one side was a guitarist songwriter who grew up with the Delta and Chicago blues of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf, with some Bob Dylan thrown in. But at the same time, he was hanging out with NYC Lower East Side avant gardeists like Arto Lindsey and Michael Beinhorn during his early 80s formative years. And it is precisely that tension between tradition