AL KOOPER REMEMBERS PART II
He was a participant in some of the great musical moments of the past half century, as musician,...
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AL KOOPER REMEMBERS, PART I
He was a participant in some of the great musical moments of the past half century, part of...
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Gypsy Rose Lee will forever be associated with Gypsy, the musical adapted from her own memoir by Arthur...
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Angus MacLise (1938-1979) was, as the Velvet Underground’s original drummer, an essential element of their early free-form sound,...
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Barbara Hulanicki began her career in clothing as a fashion illustrator and photographer in the late 1950s. By...
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It’s fitting that today is not only Martin Luther King Jr. Day but also the 80th anniversary of...
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When Eve Babitz died on December 17, the light dimmed a bit in Los Angeles, the city she...
RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK: A TORTURED LOVE AFFAIR WITH ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the blind jazz visionary, inspired a who’s who of rock music, including Jimi Hendrix, Frank...
INSIDE THE WINDMILL WITH PHOTOGRAPHER LOU SMITH
The videos and photographs of Lou Smith have been tearing up YouTube and Instagram in recent years, launching...
TOMORROW WITH TOM SNYDER: A RECONSIDERATION
During the punk era, Tom Snyder carved out a post-midnight corner of the TV landscape with his show,...
FINNISH AVANT-GARDIST KEUHKOT IS CONTINUING THE UNIVERSE
Keuhkot is, as Jordan N. Mamone suggests, “the world’s only one-man avant-garde Finnish vaudeville act.” “Keuhkot” is the...
PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF PKM FOR 2021, PART II
By PKM Editors These are the TOP TEN STORIES for the year on PKM, our toppermost of the...
PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF 2021, PART I
Put another log on the fire, top that tankard of coffee, tea and/or antibiotics, and kick back with Please...
INSIDE CAFÉ SOCIETY: NYC’S FIRST INTEGRATED NIGHTCLUB
When Café Society opened as a cabaret in Greenwich Village in December 1938, it was one of the...