Gun Club, led by the mercurial Jeffrey Lee Pierce, were booked for a month-long tour of Australia in late 1983. However, two members of the band quit ...
Patti Smith championed her, Paul Bowles translated her writings into English, but Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) may be best remembered for her embrace of ...
While a college student on a semester abroad in Spain, Ken Krayeske made a quixotic trip to Morocco to find Paul Bowles. Actually, the trip started six mon...
Writer, musician, actor and artist John Lurie is at the center of many indelible images from a certain time and place in NYC’s music and film history: fron...
Mike DeCapite’s writerly trajectory reads like a punk band’s Horatio Alger story: Upon arrival in NYC, his first writings were published by Richard Hell, t...
Paul Williams was among the first writers to take rock ‘n’ roll seriously as an art form. He preached that gospel in Crawdaddy!, a magazine he co-founded as a ...
Mike Katz and Crispin Kott, self-described “rock and roll soulmates,” have done it again. With the recently published Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Franci...
Marianne Faithfull has had a long, fascinating career since her days as the ‘It Girl’ of the Swingin’ London scene in the 1960s. Indeed, her best and far more i...
Ira Robbins began publishing Trouser Press in 1974 for all the right reasons: love of music on the margins, Anglophilia, fun. That he and co-founders Dave Schul...
The writer and bookseller Larry McMurtry, who died earlier this year at 84, was a Texas native best known for film adaptations of his novels The Last Picture Sh...
What began in 1979 for David Greenberger as a D.I.Y. newsletter for the residents at a Boston nursing home became, over the decades, an international oasis call...
One hundred years ago, the deadliest white-on-black crime in U.S. history took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Not only were hundreds killed in mob violence, but one ...
Sally Davies made her mark in New York as a painter before abruptly switching to photography around 2000. Since then, her street photographs, with their vibrant...
Miles Copeland III was already a veteran music promoter and manager when the punk scene exploded in London. With an office in the same building as Malcolm McLar...
