After 50 years and 25 albums and collaborations with a who’s who of rock ‘n’ roll, pop and cinema, you’d think Sparks would be better known. Well, this year mig...
Music defined the punk and grunge eras, but comics played an essential role, too. Cartoonist Peter Bagge, an early fan of and contributor to Punk magazine, was ...
French clothing designer and photographer Hedi Slimane has turned the menswear world upside down by using rock ‘n’ roll for inspiration. He has also turned on M...
Against all odds, Joey “Shithead” Keithley, DOA frontman and longtime activist, won election to city council in his Canadian hometown in 2018. He defeated a for...
If you spent any time in the Detroit/Ann Arbor cultural scene in the last 50 years, chances are you know the name Hiawatha Bailey, the only Black and Native Ame...
Born on the Piapot Plains Cree First Nation Reserve in Saskatchewan, Buffy Sainte-Marie was raised by adoptive parents in Massachusetts, earned degrees in Orien...
Sax player and arranger Sam Butera was ‘Keith Richards to Louis Prima’s Mick Jagger’ once he joined the great trumpeter, singer and bandleader in Las Vegas in 1...
The story of the Pink Fairies is like a trip down a rabbit hole into a psychedelicized wonderland that includes characters like Lemmy Kilmister and Hawkwind, Mi...
The plots of Forensic Files, the CSI franchise, Endeavour, The Fall—and all these other popular TV shows and miniseries in the past few years—revolve around the...
It could be argued that the French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was the first punk. Instead of using music, he used language, to break open the possibility ...
Sylvain Sylvain was the secret weapon of the New York Dolls, the diplomat and cheerleader who held the band together and an underrated musician and songwriter. ...
Miles (aka Barry Miles) had a front-row seat to the London underground scene of the 1960s, as a bookseller and gallery co-owner at a time when Beatlemania was m...
Alicia Armendariz (aka Alice Bag) is a Los Angeles punk legend, not just for her groundbreaking first band the Bags (featured in Penelope Spheeris’s Decline of ...
Originally written in 1975, at the height of the so-called “Blaxploitation-era”, this New York Magazine piece was recently dusted off by Mark Jacobson for PKM. ...
