Stan Ridgway

One of the most unique singer/songwriters in American indie music, with an unforgettable adenoidal vocal delivery that makes him sound like a low-level wise guy in one of those old Warner Bros. gangster films of the '30s, and a lyrical obsession with the themes of pulp crime novels and film noir, Stan Ridgway is a true original. To most people, Ridgway is best known as the singer of his early new wave band Wall of Voodoo's 1983 hit "Mexican Radio." However, he parted ways with the band soon after and embarked on a distinctive solo career, issuing a handful of highly regarded a...