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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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FROM BIBA TO HULA: DESIGNER BARBARA HULANICKI STILL COOL AT 85
Barbara Hulanicki began her career in clothing as a fashion illustrator and photographer in the late 1950s. By...
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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...
SHEL TALMY’S SONIC ODYSSEY
Shel Talmy. Just the sound of his name evokes a time when London was on the verge of...
DIVINE: LAUGHTER AND LUST IN THE DUST
In 1984, Cree McCree sat down with Divine during the filming of the Lust in the Dust, directed...
GOODBYE MICHAEL NESMITH: AN ENTRY FROM MY DIARY
James Grauerholz, the bibliographer and literary executor of William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), was the late writer’s friend, intimate...