It will be 50 years this December since Elvis Presley made his famous "comeback" on TV, and it has been more than 40 years since his death. The trajectory of Th...
Bob Dylan, Ronnie Wood and Grace Slick are best known for their music, but they’ve also pursued the visual arts. Here are 10 rockers who dared to share their ar...
In his incendiary new book Burning Down the Haus, Tim Mohr documents the “secret history of punk rock under the dictator” and inspires hope in the hearts of all...
Classic documentary about the crowd at a 1986 Judas Priest/Dokken concert in suburban Washington D.C. never gets old
For much of the 1980s, I freelanced for a ...
The brilliant cartoonist, comic strip artist, creator of Zippy the Pinhead, inspirer of Belushi/Ackroyd and keeper of the underground comix flame, turns his han...
The master of "black humor," inspiration for New Journalism and all things gonzo and hip, was also friends with the Beatles, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, ...
Pulp fiction may be fun to think about and the books' covers are a delight, but the contents almost always get it wrong - especially when it comes to the Hippie...
In the spirit of the July 4th holiday, we look backward and forward simultaneously, with a little help from our friends at the New York Public Library and their...
The acclaimed writer and beloved writing teacher’s suicide ten years ago (Sept. 12) shocked his fans and students. The film The End of the Tour, released last y...
A new documentary, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, reveals the revolutionary simplicity of a children’s TV icon who redefined “authenticity” in a way that Sacha Baro...
On the brink of stardom, with help from Michael Nesmith, Mike Love and Glen Campbell, Craig Smith took a different, far darker path, taking the name Maitreya Ka...
Cartoonist Rube Goldberg’s crazy inventions still resonate in the age of smartphones. Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize winner who was friends with Charlie Chaplin,...
Singer, guitarist and main songwriter for the Remains, Boston’s first and finest rock & roll band, recalls the days when his band played on The Ed Sullivan ...
A talented Beat poet who was a travel companion to Jack Kerouac, Zen buddy to Gary Snyder and Michael McClure and stepfather to Huey Lewis, Lew Welch walked sou...
