"We must either love each other, or we must die." In 1964, two 60-second political TV spots forever changed the tone of American politics, pointing the way towa...
The poet Ezra Pound may have been a crazy old man, but does that cancel out his fascism or his treason?
When I first started working at the Library of Congress...
Chilean film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's version of the movie Dune had a cast and crew lined up that included H.R. Giger, Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger, David ...
Dr. King once said, “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
When Martin Luther King Jr. Day roll...
Though known as a punk rock pioneer, Richard Hell picked up the pen long before he picked up the bass guitar. Richard talks to PKM about his upcoming retrospect...
Slim Gaillard and Lord Buckley helped the King of the Beats locate his inner hipster
Before the Beats jumped into the musical deep end, two stand-up jazz artis...
Tonya Harding never won an Olympic medal and Barbara Graham was snuffed in the gas chamber at San Quentin but both women knew one of America's darkest secrets
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50 years ago, The Doors’ singer was maced backstage by the cops and then arrested while performing - we take a look at the events that led to the arrest, includ...
PKM Is Proud To Announce The First Recipient Of Our Annual Turkey Award, Celebrating Epic Artistic Disasters, Goes To Tommy Wiseau’s The Room
Thanksgiving with...
Long before hip-hop commodified rebellion, and as early as 1964, artists like Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, Nina Simone, Les McCann, Marvin Gaye, The Temptat...
It may have started with Marvel vs. DC but it led to Robert Crumb and an Underground movement that has only grown since the 1960s
You can’t toss a grenade thes...
Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Patchen, Kandel, Waldman, Nordine and Young could have been a Supergroup
In 1948, Allen Ginsberg had what he called an “auditory halluci...
Five musicians who served jail time in their prime - for drug smuggling, armed robbery, weapons charges and more...
“It’s no fun when that iron door clangs shu...
Ed Sanders of The Fugs bridges the gap between 3 very influential, uniquely American subcultures - Beats, hippies and punks
For the past four years, I have tau...
