If there was a Mount Rushmore for reggae, Lee “Scratch” Perry's would be one of faces carved on it. The producer-songwriter-musician-singer, now 83, rose throug...
The legendary musical outfit Swans—a revolving cast of inspired players centered around Michael Gira—has resurfaced with a new album, Leaving Meaning, and an up...
Mike Watt is the Dale Carnegie of rock & roll. He has made more friends and influenced more people than any living bass man, collaborating with everyone fro...
Countercultural anthropologist and founding member of Blue Cheer, V. Vale has documented the 1970s San Francisco punk scene and explored the subcultures of indu...
Mark Fisher explores the unique appeal of XTC’s musical legacy in What Do You Call That Noise?: An XTC Discovery Book. PKM’s Amanda Sheppard talked to Fisher ab...
A new documentary on legendary band The Sonics by Jordan Albertsen opens a window on the rich and influential legacy of garage rock in the Pacific Northwest, an...
The bass player and biographer of the beloved post-punk band talks about his affinity for the Beats, friendships with William S. Burroughs, John Giorno and Jim...
Psychedelic Sixties’ Bay Area survivors the Chocolate Watchband cut their teeth on bills with the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead but went their own wa...
Australia’s proto-punk pioneers formed in 1974, were signed by Seymour Stein in 1977, and influenced a generation of Oz rockers by leading a DIY revolution in S...
Australian filmmaker and rock-trash impresario Josh “Sinbad” Collins releases Fags in the Fast Lane, his first film since Pervirella (1997). The cast includes t...
Only in LA, it seems, could a former US Marine, World War II hero and alleged bankrobber, transform himself into a natural foods restaurateur, polygamous leader...
MoMA will Honor Dead Moon’s Fred Cole with the release of Dead Moon: The Book at PS1 in Queens, NY. PKM talks to the book's editor and Mississippi Records ...
Girlsville Records' new compilation benefits anti-fascist, anti-racist activism and features The Pristeens, John Dwyer’s band Damaged Bug, Mr. Airplane Man, Ato...
