This is a story about singer-songwriter Dino Valenti and two songs for which he has songwriting credit that defined the Sixties. It also stars Edie Sedgwick, Ji...
All the mothers of the world are showered with bowers of flowers and other sweet-smelling powders on Mother’s Day. And, of course, as Abe Lincoln put it, it is ...
A summer without baseball is cruel and unusual, and probably unconstitutional too. More to the point, it is unthinkable. Therefore, PKM’s Alan Bisbort and Benit...
Cartoonist Basil Wolverton (1909-1978) cast a large, if sometimes unrecognized, shadow over the underground comix of the 1960s and punk graphics of the 1970s an...
George Orwell died over 70 years ago. It would be hard to find another writer of his generation who had as profound an influence on, and prophetic accuracy abou...
The Village Voice, during punk’s heyday, called The Feelies “the best underground band in New York.” But, outside of some tracks for Ork Records and a single (“...
Stephen Friedland began his music career in the early 1960s as an in-house songwriter for the BT Puppy record label in New York, penning hits for Chubby Checker...
What do Richard Hell, Television, the dBs, Alex Chilton, the Feelies, Cheetah Chrome, Lester Bangs and Mick Farren all have in common? They released singles on ...
We love rock & roll, but learning how it’s produced, marketed and compromised for mass consumption is a bit like learning how sausage is made or cloth diape...
As co-editor (with Aline Kominsky-Crumb) of the all-female Twisted Sisters Comics in the 1970s and 1980s, Diane Noomin is one of the pioneering women cartoonist...
The elves at PleaseKillMe.com have been working 24/7 to spread Christmas cheer to those who cherish peace, love and understanding (and a Bronx cheer to those wh...
Poet, artist, performer, pacifist and visionary, Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was the closest thing America had to a William Blake. He was, in the words of biogr...
ESP-Disk’, a record label started in New York in 1963 by Bernard Stollman, unleashed a sonic blast of free-form rock ‘n’ roll, free jazz, ur-freak-folk, poetry,...
Dylan Thomas died 66 years ago last Saturday. The Welsh poet is known as much for the theatrical readings of his own poems as he is for his prodigious drinking....
