The music of the Texas garage band 13th Floor Elevators needs little introduction to PKM readers. They were among the first bands to collectively hitch their wa...
The Lounge Lizards, an uncategorizable musical assemblage that formed in 1978, blazed a trail parallel to, but separate from, the punk scene taking place in New...
Faulty Products was a small record label and distribution company with an outsized influence at a crucial time for rock & roll, launching the Circle Jerks, ...
Signed to Mercury the same time as the New York Dolls, Ohio-based Blue Ash was part of a pre-punk wave pushing against the pretentions and bloat of 1970s rock &...
The master of power pop burst on the scene in 1982 with a debut album that turned heads and ears, spawning rave reviews and respectable enough sales to suggest ...
Maila Nurmi, come on down! Mike Decay has turned his deep and abiding love for the now-iconic actress into a one-off publication called Playghoul, which is a ch...
Punk from Down Under too often gets short shrift in chronicles from the 1970s. One of the punkest of the original Aussie garage bands was The Victims, comprised...
Peter Aaron moved to Cincinnati (aka ‘the Queen City,’ ‘Cinci-tucky’) from New Jersey as a teenager and quickly found kindred punk-rock spirits. In 1988, he rev...
Born and raised in Cleveland, photographer David Arnoff was dragged by his family to Los Angeles as a teenager. Luckily, he brought a darker “Rust Belt” sensibi...
Camilla Saly turned her wild stories of a misspent youth in punk bars, and their eventual boxes of ephemeral proof, into the Punk Archives NYC, a developing onl...
Director Allan Arkush Remembers the Madness of Making the 1983 Cult Classic Rock & Roll Comedy Get Crazy (1983), a film that unfairly stands in the shadows ...
Just in time for Halloween, classic (and not so classic) horror film music rises from the grave on Something Weird Video’s new compilation, Spook Show Spectacul...
Though the Ramones exhibition at the Queens Museum in 2016 gained Marc H. Miller a wider audience, he was instrumental in framing the punk scene as an total art...
Raised in Texas, artist Gary Panter moved to L.A. in the late 1970s and made an immediate mark on the L.A. punk scene with his now iconic poster for the Screame...
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.
