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 sex addiction with Margaret Cho, the podcast host has spen...
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...
Pulp fiction may be fun to think about and the books' covers are a delight, but the contents almost always get it wrong - especially when it comes to the Hippie...
"I know, I know; you were born too late, but here’s a secret passage way to the past... If you operate this book correctly, it will transport you back to those ...
55 years after the poet Sylvia Plath's death, she continues to inspire books, songs, films and verse
At a recent auction, a copy of The Joy of Cooking—the most...
PKM talks to Student Teachers’ drummer Laura Davis-Chanin about her new memoir, The Girl in the Back: A Female Drummer’s Life with Bowie, Blondie, and the ...
Known as ‘The Bulldog,’ former New York Yankee Jim Bouton pissed off The Establishment with his tell-all book Ball Four, and went on to a career as anchorman, T...
The acclaimed writer and beloved writing teacher’s suicide ten years ago (Sept. 12) shocked his fans and students. The film The End of the Tour, released last y...
“God protects drunks, infants, and feisty girls, girls who are up for anything.” Cynthia Heimel, who died this year, riled the feminist movement in 1983 wi...
Ezra Furman, the perfect pop maker for these trans times, on his newly published 33 & 1/3 book about Lou Reed and the Transformer album
Ezra Furman is...
