KURT VONNEGUT’S CRUSADE
50 years after the publication of the now literary (and film) classic Slaughterhouse-Five, our editor Alan Bisbort looks...
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LOST AND FOUND: KAREN DALTON
Though she has been dead for more than a quarter-century, Karen Dalton, a staple of the Greenwich Village...
DEKE DICKERSON: MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR!
Because he’s so good on the guitar, the Missouri native’s million other hats are often overlooked in the...
THE BIRTH OF GONZO AT THE KENTUCKY DERBY
Hunter S. Thompson became a known quantity with the publication of Hell’s Angels (1967), but it wasn’t until...
OVERCOMING ADVERSITY: A DRUNK’S REDEMPTION
Time to raise a celebratory, non-alcoholic toast because Sweet Adversity by Donald Newlove (one of PKM’s “Best Books By...
TOSH BERMAN: GROWING UP IN PUBLIC
His father, Wallace Berman, was one of the best-known artists in America, featured on the cover of the...
LED ZEPPELIN: DID THEY, OR DIDN’T THEY, PLAY?
Filmmaker Jeff Krulik, auteur of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, has created a gripping film about a Led Zeppelin...
SUN RA: NEVER A PART OF THIS PLANET
Sun Ra, “one of the strangest artists that America has ever produced” was once on the cover of...
TEN MORE GREAT BOOKS BY DRUNKS
Another round of inebriated literature for the house, bartender! Early last year, PKM published an article called “The...
PKM TV EXPLORES THE HISTORY OF ST. MARK’S CHURCH IN NYC
PKM TV is in the house, ya’ll! Well, actually, it’s in the church. St. Mark’s Church, to be...
A LOVE SUPREME: HOW JOHN COLTRANE CHANGED THE WORLD
With a single night’s recording session and a 1965 album, “Trane” pointed the way toward a new consciousness...
ELVIS IN THREE PICTURES
It will be 50 years this December since Elvis Presley made his famous “comeback” on TV, and it...
ROCK & ROLL’S WANNABE PICASSOS
Bob Dylan, Ronnie Wood and Grace Slick are best known for their music, but they’ve also pursued the...
NEWS FLASH: EAST GERMAN PUNKS TORE DOWN THE BERLIN WALL!
In his incendiary new book Burning Down the Haus, Tim Mohr documents the “secret history of punk rock...