THE UNFORGETTABLE YARDBIRDS: DRUMMER JIM MCCARTY EXPLAINS IT ALL
Though they lasted only five years, the Yardbirds reshaped rock, pop and blues. Through all the personnel changes—Clapton,...
Richie Unterberger
SEASON OF THE WITCH: WHEN AN AMERICAN RESHAPED BRITISH POP MUSIC
Promoter/producer/club owner Joe Boyd, with his production company Witchseason, introduced the world to some enduring artists in its...
Newly Released Bowie Demos Reveal a Never-Before-Heard “Space Oddity” and More
A previously unreleased batch of demos from the late 1960s reveals David Bowie groping toward the sound, vision...
THE SOUND OF EAST L.A.: GOD’S CHILDREN AND THEE MIDNITERS
The Stones met Sly Stone when Little Willie G. stepped up to the microphone in the late 1960s/early...
THE ROAD FROM THE CATACOMBS TO ASTRAL WEEKS: VAN MORRISON’S LOST 1968 TAPE UNEARTHED
A recently discovered tape, briefly released by Morrison on iTunes, may be a rock & roll Rosetta stone,...
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL AT 50: THE FILM & ERA-DEFINING SONG BY THE ROLLING STONES
French film director Jean-Luc Godard believed that art was never finished. On the eve of his controversial film’s...
DOUG YULE: THE FORGOTTEN VELVET
He appeared on more Velvet Underground recordings than John Cale or Nico and yet he is seldom mentioned...
STRAIGHT OUTTA DETROIT: EARLY BOB SEGER’S HEAVY MUSIC
A reissue of singles from 1966/67 offer the shocking news that, before the Stooges, MC5 and Mitch Ryder,...
STUDENT TEACHERS’ DRUMMER LAURA DAVIS-CHANIN CHRONICLES HER LIFE WITH BOWIE, BLONDIE AND THE 70S NYC ROCK SCENE
PKM talks to Student Teachers’ drummer Laura Davis-Chanin about her new memoir, The Girl in the Back: A Female...
WHEN GENE CLARK LEFT THE BYRDS’ NEST
Former Byrd Gene Clark died in 1991, but a cache of new material has surfaced that will raise...
THE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL’S STEVE BOONE OPENS UP ABOUT THE INFAMOUS POT BUST THAT BROKE UP THE BAND
Steve Boone, bass player for the ‘good time’ folk-rock band Lovin’ Spoonful, known for hits like “Do You...