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...
A look back at John Waters Christmas Stand-Up Special at City Winery in 2015
Watching John Waters stand up is the equivalent of sneaking brownies out of ...
The road to success is paved with excess, and these ten tales are ones the participants will never live down...nor should they!
Slash had said, “Being a rock s...
At the Sea.Hear.Now Fest in Asbury Park last month, The Boss joined Social Distortion on stage and they brought down the house, just as Blondie had one night ea...
LG, the frontwoman of Nashville's Thelma and the Sleaze, talks to PKM about being a 'child of the Nineties', influences, hecklers, and of course... rock n’ roll...
Meltasia is a two-day mushroom- and acid-laced music festival in upstate New York. In its Ninth year, the rock & roll festival attracted swarms of tattooed,...
Hole drummer Patty Schemel’s brutally honest memoir, Hit So Hard, looks at the dark side of rock ‘n’ roll stardom, drug addiction and depression, but moves towa...
