SHEL TALMY’S SONIC ODYSSEY
Shel Talmy. Just the sound of his name evokes a time when London was on the verge of...
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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...
LENI SINCLAIR AND THE MOTOR CITY UNDERGROUND
In 1959, Leni Sinclair—born Magdalene Arndt—left a West Berlin refugee camp bound for Detroit, where relatives lived. A...
SUICIDE: FIELD RECORDINGS, 1977, 1980
Alan Vega and Martin Rev, as Suicide, were the first NYC performers to use the word ‘punk’ as...
HYMN FOR THE DUDE: INTERVIEW WITH MORGAN FISHER
Though Morgan Fisher has enjoyed an eclectic career—from soul music/Top 40 hits and rock ‘n’ roll to art-punk...
TOM ROBINSON: STILL ON THE MOTORWAY TO A BETTER WORLD
Hidden in plain sight during the Punk heyday, a subset of musicians were singing about, and working toward,...
BEING NICO: DANNY FIELDS INTERVIEWS BIOGRAPHER JENNIFER OTTER BICKERDICKE
Jennifer Otter Bickerdike’s sparkling new book You Are Beautiful And You Are Alone: A Biography of Nico, fully...
TAKE MY MOTHER IN LAW…PLEASE: CAROL O’SHAUGHNESSY
Thanksgiving is the best holiday on the calendar. It’s a non-denominational, non-political, non-threatening time when we ponder things...
‘OUR KID’: MIKE MCCARTNEY CAPTURES THE EARLY BEATLES ON FILM
Paul McCartney’s younger brother, Michael, had a front row seat during the early days of the Quarrymen and...
VLADIMIR VYSOTSKY: HAMLET WITH A GUITAR
Alternately ignored and vilified by the Soviet authorities during his short lifetime, singer, actor, poet and drunkard Vladimir...
DENIS KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL: UNDERGROUND COMIX PIONEER KEEPS ON TRUCKIN’
By Alan Bisbort Denis Kitchen is, in my view, the Stan Lee of underground comix. While Lee’s Marvel...
THE GUN CLUB DOWN UNDER
Gun Club, led by the mercurial Jeffrey Lee Pierce, were booked for a month-long tour of Australia in late...
ISABELLE EBERHARDT: RIMBAUD’S ‘DAUGHTER’
Patti Smith championed her, Paul Bowles translated her writings into English, but Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) may be best...