WALT WHITMAN: THE FIRST AMERICAN PUNK POET? Alan Bisbort·March 24, 2022 The enduring image of Walt Whitman is as a bearded old sage living out his years in...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsCool PeoplePoetry·0 Comments
JACK KEROUAC AT 100: HIS MAGICAL JUKEBOX Alan Bisbort·March 7, 2022Music was the food that fueled Jack Kerouac’s soul, drove his writing and brought him his rare moments...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsBooksCool People·0 Comments
TOWNES VAN ZANDT: FOR THE SAKE OF THE SONG Alan Bisbort·March 3, 2022Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997) was a singer-songwriter whose work was popularized by Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Merle Haggard...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleInterviewsJohn KruthMusicians·0 Comments
SPOTIFY AND OTHER STREAMING DELIGHTS: MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE OR SAME AS THE OLD BOSS? Paul Bisbort·February 15, 2022By Paul Bisbort and Alan Bisbort With Spotify in the crosshairs following Neil Young’s exodus from the music...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsMusiciansNews·1 Comment
KENNETH FEARING: NYC’S ORIGINAL ‘DRUNKEN POET’ Alan Bisbort·February 9, 2022Kenneth Fearing, “the drunken poet,” was a rising star among the Greenwich Village bohos in the 1920s, his...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleHistoryPoetry·0 Comments
TED JOANS: GOING FAR BEYOND ‘RENT-A-BEATNIK” Alan Bisbort·February 2, 2022Poet, musician, artist and avowed “surrealist” Ted Joans was, along with LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka), one of...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleMusiciansPoetry·0 Comments
ANGUS MACLISE: THE PETE BEST OF THE PUNK GODFATHERS Alan Bisbort·January 24, 2022Angus MacLise (1938-1979) was, as the Velvet Underground’s original drummer, an essential element of their early free-form sound,...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleMusicians·0 Comments
ALI: JUST SAYING THE NAME LIGHTS UP A ROOM Alan Bisbort·January 17, 2022It’s fitting that today is not only Martin Luther King Jr. Day but also the 80th anniversary of...ActivismAlan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleHistory·0 Comments
TOMORROW WITH TOM SNYDER: A RECONSIDERATION Alan Bisbort·January 10, 2022During the punk era, Tom Snyder carved out a post-midnight corner of the TV landscape with his show,...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleTV·7 Comments
THE NEXT ‘NEW DYLAN’ Alan Bisbort·January 4, 2022After Bob Dylan went into hiding in upstate New York in 1966, the search was on for the...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsMusicians·3 Comments
THE LAVENDER SCARE: WHEN GAY WAS NOT Alan Bisbort·December 1, 2021Spreading fear is one of the hallmarks of the far right in the U.S., a way to divide...ActivismAlan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsHistory·0 Comments
TAKE MY MOTHER IN LAW…PLEASE: CAROL O’SHAUGHNESSY Alan Bisbort·November 25, 2021Thanksgiving is the best holiday on the calendar. It’s a non-denominational, non-political, non-threatening time when we ponder things...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleEditors' PicksMusicians·0 Comments
DENIS KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL: UNDERGROUND COMIX PIONEER KEEPS ON TRUCKIN’ Alan Bisbort·November 22, 2021By Alan Bisbort Denis Kitchen is, in my view, the Stan Lee of underground comix. While Lee’s Marvel...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsArtCool People·0 Comments
THE PKM CRYPT CRAWL: NEW YORK Alan Bisbort·October 27, 2021Cue the spooky Halloween music because we’re going on a stroll among the grassy knolls of New York...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsEditors' PicksHistoryR.I.P.·0 Comments