SON OF A GUN: NEAL CASSADY’S SON JOHN TELLS ALL Laura Marie Braun·May 2, 2019John Allen Cassady, now 67, reflects on growing up with the king of the counterculture, the inspiration for...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfCool PeopleHistoryInterviewsNews·0 Comments
ARCHITECT OF STARDOM: IRVING MILLS AND DUKE ELLINGTON Tosh Berman·May 1, 2019His “Elvis” was Duke Ellington, but he did far more than manage the careers of the Duke, Cab...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleHistoryTosh Berman·0 Comments
THE DEATH OF SGT. CARTER Burt Kearns·April 29, 2019Frank Sutton, who played the gruff sergeant foil to Jim Nabors’ country bumpkin Gomer Pyle, was a talented...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfBurt KearnsCool PeopleTV·12 Comments
Zapped by Absurdity: Paul Krassner Can’t Stop Now Benito Vila·April 23, 2019One of the forefathers of underground culture and Free Speech advocate extraordinaire (who turned 87 on April 9),...All Please Kill Me PostsBenito VilaBooksCool PeopleNews·2 Comments
Bernard Fowler: 20 Feet From Jagger Robert Gourley·April 18, 2019After 30 years of vocal work with The Rolling Stones, Bernard Fowler is releasing an album of his...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleInterviewsMusiciansNewsRobert Gourley·0 Comments
STANLEY DORFMAN: TOP OF THE POPS AND BEYOND Amy Haben·April 15, 2019The driving force behind the UK’s influential Top of the Pops (aka TOTP) TV program during its mid-1960s...All Please Kill Me PostsAmy HabenCool PeopleInterviewsNews·1 Comment
DAVID GODLIS: THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHER AT CBGB Eric Davidson·April 4, 2019Because he brought a street photographer’s eye to the party, Godlis captured New York’s early punk scene at...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfCool PeopleEric DavidsonPhotography·3 Comments
INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT: THE FACTS ABOUT WAX TRAX! RECORDS Robert Gourley·March 28, 2019Not many record stores had their own label, and not many stores could have touched the lives of...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleDocumentary FilmFilmInterviewsRecord LabelsRobert Gourley·0 Comments
KURT VONNEGUT’S CRUSADE Alan Bisbort·March 21, 201950 years after the publication of the now literary (and film) classic Slaughterhouse-Five, our editor Alan Bisbort looks...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsBest OfBooksCool PeopleInterviews·1 Comment
KENNETH PITT: THE ARCHITECT WHO TURNED DAVID JONES INTO DAVID BOWIE Tosh Berman·March 19, 2019Bowie’s first manager was an old school, former publicist for Sinatra, Ellington, Jerry Lee Lewis and Manfred Mann,...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleHistoryR.I.P.Tosh Berman·0 Comments
LOST AND FOUND: KAREN DALTON Alan Bisbort·March 13, 2019Though she has been dead for more than a quarter-century, Karen Dalton, a staple of the Greenwich Village...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleMusicians·1 Comment
JOHN CALE : THE MIDWIFE OF PUNK ROCK Billy Hough·March 7, 2019It is Billy Hough’s passionate belief that our musical world would be a different place if this brilliant...All Please Kill Me PostsBilly HoughCool PeopleMusicians·3 Comments
THE BIRTH OF GONZO AT THE KENTUCKY DERBY Alan Bisbort·March 5, 2019Hunter S. Thompson became a known quantity with the publication of Hell’s Angels (1967), but it wasn’t until...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsBest OfBooksCool PeopleHistory·1 Comment
JEREMY REED: RUINED BY POETRY Gillian McCain·March 4, 2019British writer and provocateur extraordinaire talks about some wild sidetrips his literary career has taken, how he has...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfCool PeopleGillian McCainInterviewsPoetry·0 Comments