THANKSGIVING IS FOR TURKEYS – TOMMY WISEAU’S THE ROOM Alan Bisbort·November 20, 2017PKM Is Proud To Announce The First Recipient Of Our Annual Turkey Award, Celebrating Epic Artistic Disasters, Goes...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsFilm·0 Comments
LISTENING TO YOU I GET THE MUSIC Alan Bisbort·November 14, 2017How Groovy Gurus and Other Avatars of Enlightenment Shaped the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Who and others...All Please Kill Me PostsHistoryTV·0 Comments
WHEN BLACK POWER WAS FIRST IN BLOOM – THE SOUNDS OF REVOLUTION Alan Bisbort·November 8, 2017Long before hip-hop commodified rebellion, and as early as 1964, artists like Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, Nina...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsHistory·0 Comments
WHEN COMICS BECAME COMIX Alan Bisbort·October 25, 2017It may have started with Marvel vs. DC but it led to Robert Crumb and an Underground movement...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsHistory·2 Comments
ALLEN GINSBERG SINGS! AND SO DO MANY OTHER BEAT POETS! Alan Bisbort·October 18, 2017Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Patchen, Kandel, Waldman, Nordine and Young could have been a Supergroup In 1948, Allen Ginsberg had...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsVIDEO·2 Comments
JAILHOUSE ROCK Alan Bisbort·October 3, 2017Five musicians who served jail time in their prime – for drug smuggling, armed robbery, weapons charges and...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsMusicians·0 Comments
WHEN BEATNIKS BEGAT HIPPIES BEGAT PUNKS Alan Bisbort·October 2, 2017Ed Sanders of The Fugs bridges the gap between 3 very influential, uniquely American subcultures – Beats, hippies...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsCool PeoplePoetry·3 Comments
HUGH HEFNER WAS MORE THAN A GIRLIE MAGAZINE PUBLISHER Alan Bisbort·September 28, 2017The bathrobe-and-pipe stereotype was just a weird disguise for a shy Midwesterner As we all know, most red-blooded...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsNewsR.I.P.·2 Comments
HOW JACK KEROUAC SAVED WESTERN CIVILIZATION Alan Bisbort·September 27, 2017On The Road, published 60 years ago, freed young (and young at heart) Americans to trust their guts...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsBest OfCool PeopleVIDEO·0 Comments
AMERICAN FRANKENSTEIN – SAN QUENTIN’S SURGEON & HIS HUMAN EXPERIMENTS Alan Bisbort·September 21, 2017Dr. Stanley, chief surgeon at San Quentin Prison for almost 40 years and a follower of eugenics, conducted...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsHistory·1 Comment
Cheetah Chrome Is Back and He Will Never Use Ear Plugs Alan Bisbort·September 19, 2017The Dead Boys Have Come Again for America’s Children in 2017 In this case, the metaphor is not...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleMusiciansNews·1 Comment
There Must Be Some Kind of Way Outta Here – A Vietnam Soundtrack Alan Bisbort·September 18, 2017These 10 Tunes Offer a Parallel Soundtrack to Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s PBS series The Vietnam War...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsVIDEO·0 Comments
UNEXPECTEDLY GREAT COVERS OF FAMILIAR SONGS Alan Bisbort·September 5, 2017When is a cover song better than the original? Is it flattery or just a cheap rip-off? Please...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsMusiciansTodd McGovern·2 Comments
NOT THE SAME AFTER THAT: ROCK & ROLL ACID CASUALTIES Alan Bisbort·August 29, 2017Please Kill Me profiles 5 “crazy diamonds” – brilliant musicians whose careers were derailed after becoming acid casualties...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsBest OfMusicians·4 Comments