# Michael Alig
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michael alig (born April 29, 1966) is an American convicted killer who served almost 17 years in prison for manslaughter; a former club promoter, musician, and writer, Alig was a founder and ringleader of the Club Kids – a group of young New York City clubgoers that became a cultural phenomenon during the late 1980s and early 1990s.In March 1996, Alig and his roommate, Robert D. "Freeze" Riggs, killed fellow Club Kid Andre "Angel" Melendez in a confrontation over a delinquent drug debt. In October 1997, Alig pled guilty to first-degree manslaughter. Both men were sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison; Riggs was released on parole in 2010, Alig on May 5, 2014.
The Club Kids: How a Group of Misfits Took Over NYC
Did a corrupted video file ruin an hour of footage from this episode? Yes. Would we ever let that stop us? No. In the 80s and 90s, a pack of queer party animals burst into NYC’s backrooms, bringing a haze of gritty glamour, fashion, drugs, and dance wherever they went. They were the Club Kids; RuPa…
Game Show Parents & Butter Ice Cream
This week we’re chatting Poopshit’s newest artistic endeavor, how Kevin McCallister is really Michael Alig grown up, the Bush’s Baked Beans guy & Brentlee gives their review on the 2026 Indiana State Fair
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Michael Musto Is Mr. Adjacent
Village Voice and NYC icon Michael Musto joins Michael Moynihan for a tour through the New York he chronicled from the inside, from growing up gay in Bensonhurst to the glory days of downtown nightlife, celebrity gossip, the Club Kids, Michael Alig, ACT UP, RuPaul, an…
Desi Santiago
Hosts James St. James, Fenton Bailey, and Randy Barbato are joined by multidisciplinary artist and former Club Kid Desi Santiago (aka Desi Monster) for an unfiltered journey through 1990s New York nightlife. Desi opens up about growing up above a Newark bar, serving acid punch at 18, the origins of…
Michael Alig (Rewind): If a Club Kid Kills, Stuffs the Body in a Box and Tells The World About It Will Anyone Listen?
In March 1996, promoter Michael Alig, the "King of the Club Kids," after appearing on TV’s Geraldo and on the cover of New York magazine, bashed his friend and DJ Angel Melendez in the head with a hammer. The body was then dismembered and stuffed into a duct-taped cardboard box. Alig proceeded to t…
"SNUT MONSTER" - SNUT Episode 11
Bear extraordinaire DESI SANTIAGO has an alter ego, DESI MONSTER, and they’re real SNUT! Antoine and Eros talk with Desi about his eras - shape shifter, jewelry designer, set designer, club daddy - before adding brand new quadrants - “snacks” and “snatch” - to the SNUT spectrum.
SNUT Snack: “I had…
Counterculture: From Party Monster to Rick Perry ft. Michelle Lhooq
Michelle Lhooq is a journalist who covers counterculture. She writes a Substack newsletter called "Rave New World."
In this conversation with host Daniel Spielberger, Lhooq discussed how she approaches reporting on underground culture in Singapore, and the nuances of writing about an alternative …
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