SLANT 6: STRAIGHT OUTTA WASHINGTON, D.C. IN THE ’90S
Catching some wind from the Riot Grrrl Movement but sailing mostly on their own, the all-female trio Slant...
Eric Davidson
VISUALIZING ROKY & THE 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS
The music of the Texas garage band 13th Floor Elevators needs little introduction to PKM readers. They were...
AN ORIGINAL LOUNGE LIZARD & ‘STRAY MAN’: STEVE PICCOLO
The Lounge Lizards, an uncategorizable musical assemblage that formed in 1978, blazed a trail parallel to, but separate...
ROOM FOR JELLO: AN ORAL HISTORY OF FAULTY PRODUCTS RECORDS
Faulty Products was a small record label and distribution company with an outsized influence at a crucial time...
KICKING ASH: FRANK SECICH OF BLUE ASH AND DEAD BOYS, REVISITS HIS POWER POP ROOTS
Signed to Mercury the same time as the New York Dolls, Ohio-based Blue Ash was part of a...
MARSHALL CRENSHAW IS HAVING ANOTHER FIELD DAY
The master of power pop burst on the scene in 1982 with a debut album that turned heads...
OUR FAVORITE PLAYGHOUL: VAMPIRA RISES AGAIN
Maila Nurmi, come on down! Mike Decay has turned his deep and abiding love for the now-iconic actress...
DAVE FAULKNER WAS A VICTIM BEFORE HE WAS A HOODOO GURU
Punk from Down Under too often gets short shrift in chronicles from the 1970s. One of the punkest...
PETER AARON OF THE CHROME CRANKS CELEBRATES CINCINNATI’S ‘UNDERGROUND SOUNDS’
Peter Aaron moved to Cincinnati (aka ‘the Queen City,’ ‘Cinci-tucky’) from New Jersey as a teenager and quickly...
SHOT IN THE DARK: THE PUNK PHOTOGRAPHY OF DAVID ARNOFF
Born and raised in Cleveland, photographer David Arnoff was dragged by his family to Los Angeles as a...
PANYC ATTACK: CAMILLA SALY’S LIVING HISTORY OF NYC PUNK
Camilla Saly turned her wild stories of a misspent youth in punk bars, and their eventual boxes of...
ALLAN ARKUSH ON WORKING WITH LOU REED, MALCOLM McDOWELL AND LEE VING ON CULT CLASSIC ‘GET CRAZY’
Director Allan Arkush Remembers the Madness of Making the 1983 Cult Classic Rock & Roll Comedy Get Crazy...
SOMETHING WEIRD VIDEO BRINGS BACK SPOOK SHOW MUSIC: ‘YOU MAY DIE OF FRIGHT!’
Just in time for Halloween, classic (and not so classic) horror film music rises from the grave on...
CURATOR MARC H. MILLER: PULLING THE PUNK PIECES TOGETHER
Though the Ramones exhibition at the Queens Museum in 2016 gained Marc H. Miller a wider audience, he...