Filmmaker Jeff Krulik, auteur of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, has created a gripping film about a Led Zeppelin concert mystery. A handful of people claim they saw t...
Sun Ra, “one of the strangest artists that America has ever produced” was once on the cover of Rolling Stone, shared bills with the MC5, performed on Saturday N...
Another round of inebriated literature for the house, bartender!
Early last year, PKM published an article called “The Ten Best Books By Drunks”.
It has rec...
PKM TV is in the house, ya’ll! Well, actually, it’s in the church. St. Mark’s Church, to be more precise.
Today, on PKM TV, we are lucky to have Mike Katz &...
With a single night’s recording session and a 1965 album, “Trane” pointed the way toward a new consciousness not just in music but in all things. Jazz historian...
It will be 50 years this December since Elvis Presley made his famous "comeback" on TV, and it has been more than 40 years since his death. The trajectory of Th...
Bob Dylan, Ronnie Wood and Grace Slick are best known for their music, but they’ve also pursued the visual arts. Here are 10 rockers who dared to share their ar...
In his incendiary new book Burning Down the Haus, Tim Mohr documents the “secret history of punk rock under the dictator” and inspires hope in the hearts of all...
Classic documentary about the crowd at a 1986 Judas Priest/Dokken concert in suburban Washington D.C. never gets old
For much of the 1980s, I freelanced for a ...
The brilliant cartoonist, comic strip artist, creator of Zippy the Pinhead, inspirer of Belushi/Ackroyd and keeper of the underground comix flame, turns his han...
The master of "black humor," inspiration for New Journalism and all things gonzo and hip, was also friends with the Beatles, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, ...
Pulp fiction may be fun to think about and the books' covers are a delight, but the contents almost always get it wrong - especially when it comes to the Hippie...
In the spirit of the July 4th holiday, we look backward and forward simultaneously, with a little help from our friends at the New York Public Library and their...
The acclaimed writer and beloved writing teacher’s suicide ten years ago (Sept. 12) shocked his fans and students. The film The End of the Tour, released last y...
Alan Bisbort is the Editor of PleaseKillMe.com, as well as a freelance writer and a collage artist. He currently teaches a course called Paper Bullets: Propaganda in American History at UConn-Waterbury and is working on a book by that title, to be published in 2018. He’s the author of numerous books, including Beatniks: A Guide to an American Subculture and Rhino’s Psychedelic Trip.
