Quine is chiefly remembered as a member of Richard Hell’s Voidoids, later working with Matthew Sweet, Lloyd Cole, Lou Reed and others, as well as the man behind bootleg Velvet Underground recordings later released as The Quine Tapes. At the time of this post, details surrounding his death are few. Earliest reports claimed it was suicide, as it appears he’d slipped into a depression over the abrupt loss of his wife last August.
Quine’s official site confirmed the rumor this morning (which had been floating around Sunday evening), and will be forwarding sympathy emails to the surviving family.