If you spent any time in the Detroit/Ann Arbor cultural scene in the last 50 years, chances are you know the name Hiawatha Bailey, the only Black and Native Ame...
Soul Asylum was part of a contingent of Minneapolis bands, with the Replacements and Hüsker Dü, that altered the rock & roll landscape. Founding member Dave...
The garage rock trio Demolition Doll Rods take their Detroit roots seriously. Citing the Stooges and MC5 as their touchstones, the band plays the kind of stripp...
Like the Ramones, Jesse Malin grew up in Queens, one generation later. Steeped in Kiss, Elton John, The Who and the Stones, Malin had his head turned toward Man...
Tav Falco is a musician, photographer, filmmaker, and writer, who has led the psychedelic rock group Panther Burns since 1979. Todd McGovern talks to Tav about ...
Cleveland's vital and unsung punk scene would not be complete without a chapter on Peter Laughner. Laughner, who died in 1977 at the age of 24, co-founded legen...
The resume of Larry “Ratso” Sloman is epic: editor of National Lampoon, collaborator with John Cale and Lou Reed, a member of Bob Dylan’s traveling carnival kno...
Singer/songwriter Mary Lee’s Corvette achieved a surprising breakthrough with a 2002 reinterpretation of Blood on the Tracks and she hasn’t stopped si...
Roadie Bill Sullivan takes you into the madness of touring with The Replacements in "Lemon Jail"
“I was a stooge and a clown for sure, the punk rock’s Jerome t...
Fifty years after the recording of the MC5’s first album Kick Out the Jams and the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Wayne Kramer talks abo...
Former Bam Bam and total rock & roller Gabbie Torres immerses herself in a swaggering mix of influences, from Suzi Quatro and Selena to Brian Eno and Johnny...
In his second interview with PKM, former Lounge Lizard and cult film star John Lurie talks about his painting, and new music by his alter ego Marvin Pontiac.
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Every song ever recorded by the Canadian singer-songwriter will be made available at the Neil Young Archives – along with info, videos, press clippings and memo...
Dave Alexander was one of the founding members of the Stooges. He was full of contradictions: shy and mysterious, with a fast car and an unquenchable thirst for...
Todd McGovern is a writer, radio producer and strategic communications specialist. In addition to his writing for PKM, Todd was a contributing producer for The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC. Additionally, Todd has extensive experience as a communications professional for organizations including the National Basketball Association and Teach For America. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
