A RIOT GRRRL PRIMER: REVOLUTION GIRL STYLE NOW
As Bikini Kill makes plans for their first tour in 23 years, PKM revisits the roots of the...
Art
BASIL WOLVERTON: AMERICA’S WEIRDEST ARTIST
Cartoonist Basil Wolverton (1909-1978) cast a large, if sometimes unrecognized, shadow over the underground comix of the 1960s...
LAUNCHING WARHOL AND POP ART: WALTER HOPPS AND HIS FERUS GALLERY
As we enter a new Roaring Twenties, let’s recall two renegade art dealers who kickstarted modern art back...
THE ENDLESS SUMMER OF JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD, ARTIST AND PUZZLE MASTER
John Van Hamersveld is an art-school-trained modernist with roots in the California surf culture who was set loose...
ORK RECORDS: STARTING AN INDIE-ROCK REVOLUTION ONE SINGLE AT A TIME
What do Richard Hell, Television, the dBs, Alex Chilton, the Feelies, Cheetah Chrome, Lester Bangs and Mick Farren...
JAYNE COUNTY: I DON’T FIT IN ANYWHERE
Jayne County set a pre-punk standard for outrageous rock & roll stage antics and regalia with her then...
DIANE NOOMIN: UNDERGROUND COMIX ARTIST GOES FROM TWISTED SISTER TO EMPOWERING WOMEN
As co-editor (with Aline Kominsky-Crumb) of the all-female Twisted Sisters Comics in the 1970s and 1980s, Diane Noomin...
ARTIST RALPH STEADMAN CELEBRATES HUNTER S. THOMPSON AND THE BIRTH OF GONZO
Without the visuals by longtime collaborator Ralph Steadman, Hunter S. Thompson may have never gone full ‘gonzo.’ It...
POP EATS ITSELF: OR, NOT THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANDY WARHOL
Using The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again as his template, poet/playwright/performer Billy...
SHOT IN THE DARK: THE PUNK PHOTOGRAPHY OF DAVID ARNOFF
Born and raised in Cleveland, photographer David Arnoff was dragged by his family to Los Angeles as a...
BJ PAPAS: FROM NY HARDCORE TO LA PUNK – SHE’S SHOT THEM ALL
Photographer BJ Papas started out shooting the New York hardcore scene—bands like Agnostic Front, the Bad Brains and...
WHEN NUBIA KICKED EGYPTIAN ASS
Ancient Nubia Now, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is a game-changer. The exhibition, on view...
CURATOR MARC H. MILLER: PULLING THE PUNK PIECES TOGETHER
Though the Ramones exhibition at the Queens Museum in 2016 gained Marc H. Miller a wider audience, he...
STAG: THE EARLIEST, DIRTIEST ROOTS OF PORNOGRAPHIC FILM
Illegally made and exhibited, featuring hardcore sex images and acts, stag films were vital stepping stones toward the...