U-M grad and visual artist Mike Kelley dead of apparent suicide

Visual artist Mike Kelley—who formed noise/proto-punk band Destroy All Monsters with Jim Shaw and Niagara while a student at the University of Michigan—is dead at age 57, according to an article on the pop-culture website A.V. Club. Suicide is believed to be the cause.

Kelley frequently collaborated with Sonic Youth, and according to A.V. Club, "Those early days of (Destroy All Monsters) reflected many of the elements that repeatedly cropped up in his visual work: A self-described 'anti-rock' group, they performed on homemade and scavenged instruments such as broken keyboards, a vacuum cleaner, and a coffee can, crashing parties and generally causing a confusing ruckus."

Read the full article from A.V. Club here.

Read an obituary from The New York Times here.