NILS LOFGREN: ROCK’S MOST VALUABLE PLAYER
Nils Lofgren has been both a bandleader and a team player, and is equally accomplished in both roles....
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LOU REED AND VACLAV HAVEL, 1990: WHEN THE VU FUELED THE VELVET REVOLUTION
Lou Reed visited Czechoslovakia in 1990, months after the country was freed from Soviet rule. The writer and...
BORDER RADIO: THE LONG RIDE OF AN L.A. CULT CLASSIC
Director Kurt Voss (Down and Out with The Dolls, Ghost on the Highway) got his start after film...
SOUNDMAN CONFIDENTIAL: FRANK X. GALLAGHER ON TALKING HEADS, RAMONES, PLASMATICS AND MORE
Frank X. Gallagher is best known as a sound engineer for the likes of Talking Heads, B-52s, Buddy...
VIVIAN STANSHALL: BEYOND THE BONZO DOG BAND
Vivian Stanshall was the strikingly eccentric ringleader of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, often described as the...
ROBERT JOHNSON: THE LEGEND VS. THE MAN VS. THE DEVIL
There’s Robert Johnson the country blues legend and Robert Johnson the man and somewhere in the mix is...
NEW YORKERS: PHOTOGRAPHER SALLY DAVIES SNAPS THE LAST OF THE BOHEMIANS
Sally Davies made her mark in New York as a painter before abruptly switching to photography around 2000....
THE ORIGINAL GANGSTA: LEAD BELLY AND HIS LEGACY
Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, was a folk-blues giant whose music and persona transformed American culture....
OSSIE CLARK: THE KING OF KING’S ROAD
When London was at its swinging-est, designer Ossie Clark (1942-1996) was the cock of the walk along King’s...
PETER SINFIELD: BRINGING WORDS TO KING CRIMSON’S COURT
King Crimson’s instrumental juggernaut was, in the first years of its existence, given balance by the band’s talented...
CREATION STORIES: ALAN MCGEE’S LIFE, LABEL, LEGACY COMES TO A THEATER NEAR YOU
Glaswegian Alan McGee was the embodiment of the D.I.Y. spirit of the 1980s and 1990s, bringing Oasis, Primal...
SAM COOKE: EPITOME OF COOL
Sam Cooke is back in the spotlight with the release One Night in Miami, a feature film set...
HEARTBREAKERS: THUNDERS VS. PETTY; OR, WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Johnny Thunders and Tom Petty would seem to have little in common other than the names of their...
JACK KEROUAC: BASKING IN THE GOLDEN ETERNITY
By the time Jack Kerouac died at 47 in 1969, he’d exiled himself from the 1960s youth culture...