WHAT IT IS: LYNDA BARRY AND THE WHY OF COMICS Alan Bisbort·April 23, 2020We can’t think of anyone more deserving of a MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ than cartoonist Lynda Barry, who was...All Please Kill Me PostsArtBooksCool People·0 Comments
THE COCKETTES: CONJURING MAGICK IN SAN FRANCISCO AND TAKING IT ON THE ROAD TO NYC Fayette Hauser·April 20, 2020The Cockettes were a “hippie theater group” formed in 1969 and based in and around Haight-Ashbury. The group...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksHistoryInterviews·1 Comment
IN THE STREET WITH NICK TOSCHES (RIP), ROCK SCRIBE, NOVELIST AND MASTER OF ‘STUDYIN’ NOTHIN’ Bob Pomeroy·March 18, 2020Bob Pomeroy met Nick Tosches on a Manhattan sidewalk bench. Prior to that, Pomeroy had collected, read and...All Please Kill Me PostsBob PomeroyBooksCool PeopleR.I.P.·4 Comments
FRIED & JUSTIFIED: INSIDE THE POST-PUNK YEARS (1978-98) WITH MICK HOUGHTON Richie Unterberger·March 17, 2020Mick Houghton came of age as a pop music ‘obsessive’ in the 1960s. By the 1970s, he was...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksHistoryInterviewsRichie Unterberger·0 Comments
KATHY VALENTINE: ALL SHE EVER WANTED Amy Haben·March 16, 2020Kathy Valentine was born with a rock ‘n’ roll heart, so it was no surprise to find herself...All Please Kill Me PostsAmy HabenBooksCool PeopleInterviewsMusicians·2 Comments
MY OWN PRIVATE ORWELL Alan Bisbort·March 10, 2020George Orwell died over 70 years ago. It would be hard to find another writer of his generation...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsBooksCool PeopleHistory·0 Comments
HIT LIST: ROCK & ROLL AS A GRAPHIC NOVEL Alan Bisbort·January 21, 2020We love rock & roll, but learning how it’s produced, marketed and compromised for mass consumption is a...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsBooksInterviews·0 Comments
KINKY 101: LIFE ADVICE FROM DOMINATRIXES Fiona McQuarrie·January 20, 2020Financial journalist Lindsay Goldwert saw parallels between the work of dominatrixes and how all the rest of us...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksFiona McQuarrieInterviews·0 Comments
DIANE NOOMIN: UNDERGROUND COMIX ARTIST GOES FROM TWISTED SISTER TO EMPOWERING WOMEN Alan Bisbort·January 14, 2020As co-editor (with Aline Kominsky-Crumb) of the all-female Twisted Sisters Comics in the 1970s and 1980s, Diane Noomin...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsArtBooks·0 Comments
LOOKING BACK AT 1973…AND THE ROOTS OF PUNK Andrew Grant Jackson·December 2, 2019On Tuesday, Thomas Dunne Books, a St. Martin’s imprint, releases 1973: Rock at the Crossroads, a deep 347-page...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksHistory·2 Comments
FACE IT: DEBBIE HARRY HAS HAD A HAPPY AND LUCKY LIFE Elizabeth Hand·November 13, 2019Elizabeth Hand, a much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, offers an appraisal of Debbie Harry’s new memoir and discovers that...All Please Kill Me PostsBook ReviewsBooksCool People·4 Comments
LHASA DE SELA MATTERS Fiona McQuarrie·November 11, 2019Beautiful but uncategorizable music flowed through Lhasa de Sela (1972-2010), whose itinerant, off-the-grid childhood with spiritually-inclined parents allowed...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksFiona McQuarrieInterviewsMusicians·0 Comments
ENTERING FREAK CITY: HANGING OUT WITH HARRY CREWS Gary Lippman·October 21, 2019The hardnosed, hard-living Southern writer once dubbed himself ‘Freak City’ and, despite a lifestyle (booze, drugs, fistfights, etc.)...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksGary Lippman·1 Comment
WHEN JACK KEROUAC HAD HIS CRACK-UP Paul Maher, Jr·October 8, 2019Spiraling down a silo of despair and drunkenness in the wake of his On The Road/Dharma Bums celebrity...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfBooksHistoryPaul Maher·4 Comments