A toast to David Thomas, pastoral urbanist, purest product of America without going crazy. Far from idyllic and often awful, Pere Ubu's America had green spaces as well as brown wasted ones, pockets for the underground. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/h...
He squawked — how many singers can make this claim? Emerging from Cleveland at the dawn of punk, early Pere Ubu sculpted a sound as much a reflection of the Rustbelt as it was music with note…