ROSE SIMPSON: LIFE IN THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND
The Incredible String Band was best-known as the vehicle for the otherworldly talents of Mike Heron and Robin...
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OUT TO SEA WITH THE OUTLAW COUNTRY CRUISE
In our collective younger and more innocent days of three months ago, the cruise industry was a going...
THE QUEEN OF THE AIR MEETS THE HOMICIDAL YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE
Circus performers were, in some ways, the punk rockers of their day, and nobody was more punk than...
BILLIE HOLIDAY: LADY DAY’S ENDURING LEGACY
Few major musical artists faced the obstacles Billie Holiday had to face, but then few can match her...
VLADIMIR VYSOTSKY: HAMLET WITH A GUITAR
Alternately ignored and vilified by the Soviet authorities during his short lifetime, singer, actor, poet and drunkard Vladimir...
JIMI HENDRIX IN MAUI: GOING FAR BEYOND RAINBOW BRIDGE
We can’t think of any better person to ring in the new year at PKM than Jimi Hendrix....
JONI MITCHELL: THE FIRST FIVE YEARS
Despite being regarded as one of her generation’s greatest singer-songwriters, Joni Mitchell labored in relative obscurity for years...
THE CHANGER AND THE CHANGED: A HISTORY OF THE WOMEN’S MUSIC MOVEMENT
Long before legalized same-sex marriage became a reality and the #Metoo movement crashed the patriarchal gates, a women’s...
LIFE AS A COSMOPOLITAN: GIRLS GONE GO-GO, NYC, 1977-‘82
Jamie K. Sims studied music composition and dance at UNC, then moved to New York City in 1977,...
FRED NEIL: THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS LIFE
In 1969, as his most famous song, ‘Everybody’s Talkin’”, was dominating pop charts, Fred Neil (1936-2001) was working...
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NINA SIMONE DID IT HER WAY
“The High Priestess of Soul” shook audiences up, spoke truth to power, befriended Malcolm X, Elton John and...
INSIDE CAFÉ SOCIETY: NYC’S FIRST INTEGRATED NIGHTCLUB
When Café Society opened as a cabaret in Greenwich Village in December 1938, it was one of the...
PHIL OCHS: BOUND FOR GLORY
A driving force of musical dissent in the 1960s, Phil Ochs (1940-1976) and his musical legacy are ripe...
THE PUZZLING CASE OF PATTI SMITH: GROUNDBREAKER, ‘GODMOTHER OF PUNK’ AND YOUR MOM’S FAVORITE AUTHOR
Patti Smith has been one of Billy Hough’s “Ride-or-Die” favorites ever since he heard her debut album, Horses....