Poison Ivy Rorschach, lead guitarist, songwriter, arranger, producer and sometime vocalist of one of the greatest bands in the universe, the Cramps, which she c...
Songwriter and musician Austin Brookner met writer Nick Tosches in 2008. The connection was Tosches’ words—both on the printed page, which Brookner had already ...
With her powerful voice and magnetic personality, Bettye LaVette has had at least six different musical careers (and counting). She cut her first R & B sing...
Composer, pianist and activist Carla Bley was, from an early age, a rebel, turning her back on music at 14 to take up roller skating. By 17, she was working as ...
In 1983, the Seattle band Bam Bam, fronted by a talented, elegant Black woman named Tina Bell, created a sound and lyrical foundation for a genre that white men...
Marjorie Cameron (1922-1995)—better known as ‘Cameron’—was a renegade even by the standards of L.A.’s various bohemian subcultures. An artist and occultist, she...
Ed “Big Daddy” Roth and George Barris created a new visual language that captured the unbridled spirit of Southern California starting in the late 1950s. In pri...
The death earlier this week of Walter Lure, one of the original Heartbreakers, was yet another tough blow laid on us by the year 2020. James Marshall offers a t...
After his first vinyl reissues label, Sing Sing Records, was laid to rest in 2014, Jeremy Thompson couldn't get the jones for lost rock rarities out of his syst...
After two decades as a member of David Bowie’s band, Gail Ann Dorsey never put her bass guitar down, becoming an indispensable part of Lenny Kravitz’s band and ...
Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Russia's most beloved rock & roll star. When Viktor Tsoi died in a 1990 car crash, it was, to a young pe...
When Brigid Berlin (a.k.a. Brigid Polk) died last Friday, we lost one of the last connections to New York City's 1960s underground film and art scenes. A major ...
The subtitle to Remain in Love, the new memoir by Chris Frantz, is “Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina”. He was the co-founder and drummer for the first named ba...
Pamela Miller was a boy-crazy teen from the San Fernando Valley whose head was permanently turned one summer day when a real live rock & roll band actually ...
