Kathy Valentine was born with a rock ‘n’ roll heart, so it was no surprise to find herself playing bass in the Go-Go’s, whose first album Beauty and the Beat (1...
In The Bathtub, filmmaker Dylan Mars Greenberg has placed Bob Bert, the drummer for Sonic Youth (among many other bands), inside a quirky, funny, animated films...
Maggi Ronson was in awe of her big brother, Michael “Mick” Ronson. Long before he became world famous as Bowie’s sidekick guitarist, Mick Ronson was in the Rats...
As part of the No Wave group Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Lydia Lunch (nee Koch) made her early mark on the NYC scene at around the same time the punk movement ...
Blondie’s Debbie Harry and Chris Stein appeared at The Town Hall with the band’s visual artist, Rob Roth, to celebrate the launch of Debbie’s memoir, Face It, a...
Working in Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s Sex shop on King’s Road in London at the dawn of punk, Jordan helped change the look and attitude of an entir...
The brainy and witty Buzzcocks guitarist Steve Diggle opens up about the origins of punk in Manchester, the band’s working-class roots, the need to be genuine, ...
Marianne Joan Elliott-Said (1957-2011), aka Poly Styrene, was a punk pioneer in ways that are only now being fully appreciated. As the leader of X-Ray Spex, her...
As the groundbreaking women’s lifestyle magazine and website enter their 26th year, the nation lurches toward some dystopian sexist right-wing fantasy. Happily,...
The driving force behind the UK’s influential Top of the Pops (aka TOTP) TV program during its mid-1960s heyday, Stanley Dorfman relocated to the U.S. where he...
Being punk rebels in Texas, with a name guaranteed to ban them from all God-fearing media outlets, qualifies the Butthole Surfers for the next edition of Profil...
Music is the universal balm and this holds true for religious cult members, devil worshipers, sex workers and porn stars too. Here are some prime examples from ...
Yes! This week Crispin Kott and Mike Katz of the Rock & Roll Explorer Guide to New York City take us to the (once) infamous Dom on St. Mark's Place to reliv...
After landing a job on the staff at Apple Records in the late 1960s, the Irish singer, raconteur and man-about-town seemed to meet and greet and photograph ever...
