Even as a teen hanging out on street corners in Queens, Donna Gaines was doing research for her career in sociology. But then four guys from Queens, The Ramones...
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...
Hunter S. Thompson became a known quantity with the publication of Hell’s Angels (1967), but it wasn’t until he teamed up with Ralph Steadman for the first time...
Time to raise a celebratory, non-alcoholic toast because Sweet Adversity by Donald Newlove (one of PKM’s “Best Books By Drunks”) has just been reissued, after 4...
His father, Wallace Berman, was one of the best-known artists in America, featured on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Tosh had ...
Burroughs' vision, birthed in the Midwest during the Great Depression and brought to maturity by the Beat Generation, was provocative, transgressive and hysteri...
Real poets, said Frank O’Hara, don’t need rules or schools, and these young writers prove that by stepping right out into the world, like the Beats and the punk...
PKM talks to British artist, designer, and Punk historian Toby Mott about the early days of punk in London, his book, Oh So Pretty: Punk in Print 1976-80, featu...
After sketching out the creative blueprint for Memphis-based Big Star, the band that launched a thousand other “power pop” bands, Chris Bell left it in Alex Chi...
Still not sure what to get the resident punk in your life for Christmas? Spending hours looking for something they would actually like, that won't be forgotten ...
Another round of inebriated literature for the house, bartender!
Early last year, PKM published an article called “The Ten Best Books By Drunks”.
It has rec...
Whether talking at length about clowns with John C. Reilly, discussing suicide with Robin Williams or addiction with Margaret Cho, the podcast host has spent th...
Johnny Strike was a San Francisco punk pioneer and leader of the band Crime. A fixture at Mabuhay Gardens who once performed at San Quentin prison dressed in a ...
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...
