Michael Galinsky | The Sun Magazine

Michael Galinsky

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Michael Galinsky has been publishing images in The Sun for thirty-five years, and he would love to make it thirty-five more. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

— From February 2024
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April 2022

Nation of Ulysses at the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, Washington, in 1991.

April 2022

Sleepyhead has an official band fight in Houston, Texas, on the band’s first cross-country tour. The photographer can be seen in the reflection, sitting in the van.

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April 2022

While on tour, Sleepyhead spends the night in a former frat house in East Lansing, Michigan.

April 2022

Sonic Youth performs for an abortion-rights benefit concert at the Paradise in Boston, 1990.

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April 2022

In the early 1990s the photographer shared a 450-square-foot New York City apartment with two friends. The bathroom had no sink, so they hung a mirror above the stove.

April 2022

Jackie Arthur behind the bar at the Snake Snatch Lodge in Knoxville, Tennessee. After the show she would help the bands find a place to sleep.

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April 2022

Chris O’Rourke of Sleepyhead warms up for a show in the mid-1990s.

April 2022

The Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 at CBGB, circa 1991.

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