With his camera eye, Blondie’s guitarist offers a fresh angle on the city where he grew up and the punk scene he documented, in his new book. In a candid conver...
PKM talks to British artist, designer, and Punk historian Toby Mott about the early days of punk in London, his book, Oh So Pretty: Punk in Print 1976-80, featu...
A provocative and entertaining new exhibit at the Museum of Sex in NYC undresses the ‘raw provocation’ that defined the punk era (1971-1985) and planted the see...
Founding WURM member and Black Flag bassist Chuck Dukowski talks to Eric Davidson about the California punk rock scene in the 70s and 80s, the recent reissue of...
Sylvia Reed - Lou Reed's wife, art designer, manager, and reading partner - offers insights into the most productive period of Lou’s career
Sylvia (Morales) Re...
The Feelies singer/guitarist Glenn Mercer ruminates on the 30th anniversary of Only Life, his band’s classic album, which became the apex of ‘80s college rock
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A new 'Art & Music Exhibition' re-creates the bohemian rhapsodies that cross-pollinated in downtown Manhattan and shaped everything from the Beats to the pu...
Scientists founder Kim Salmon on their first US Tour!
Formed in 1978 and slow-burning their way out of Perth, Australia, and through the 1980s underground, the...
Artist Sek Fink revives “Rat Fink” fun around the Outer Boroughs of NYC
So I’m riding my bike around Astoria one day, and I see this mechanic’s shop with a hug...
A hot new punk band, Surfbort, emerges from Manhattan, with a message for the ages: Fight the power!
“I would like to push myself to invent something that help...
A hot new reissues series, piggybacking off the original Nuggets and Pebbles and Killed By Death compilations, resurrects those bands that might just be the Vel...
The Sire Records founder, who discovered and/or signed a Who’s Who of Rock & Roll, including the Ramones, Dead Boys, Talking Heads, Replacements, Smiths, an...
Ezra Furman, the perfect pop maker for these trans times, on his newly published 33 & 1/3 book about Lou Reed and the Transformer album
Ezra Furman is...
New Bomb Turks’ frontman Eric Davidson reports back from the front lines of the raucous fourth annual international rock ‘n’ roll Fuzzville Festival, held in a ...
Eric Davidson is a freelance writer on most days, singer for New Bomb Turks on others, dilettante in between. He’s the author of the ‘90s garage punk history tome, We Never Learn. He lives in Queens.
