RON AND RUSSELL MAEL: STILL SQUEEZING OUT SPARKS Tosh Berman·March 8, 2021After 50 years and 25 albums and collaborations with a who’s who of rock ‘n’ roll, pop and...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleHistoryMusiciansTosh Berman·1 Comment
CARTOONIST PETER BAGGE: BEYOND PUNK, GRUNGE AND HATE Eric Davidson·March 1, 2021Music defined the punk and grunge eras, but comics played an essential role, too. Cartoonist Peter Bagge, an...All Please Kill Me PostsArtBooksCool PeopleEric DavidsonInterviews·1 Comment
HEDI SLIMANE: THE DESIGNER WHO HAS RESURRECTED ROCK ‘N’ ROLL GLAMOUR Ingrid Marie Jensen·February 22, 2021French clothing designer and photographer Hedi Slimane has turned the menswear world upside down by using rock ‘n’...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleFashionIngrid Jensen·3 Comments
SOMETHING BETTER CHANGE: DOA’S JOEY KEITHLEY ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL Amy Haben·February 19, 2021Against all odds, Joey “Shithead” Keithley, DOA frontman and longtime activist, won election to city council in his...ActivismAll Please Kill Me PostsAmy HabenCool People·1 Comment
HIAWATHA BAILEY: PANTHER, PUNK, CULT HERO Todd McGovern·February 18, 2021If you spent any time in the Detroit/Ann Arbor cultural scene in the last 50 years, chances are...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfCool PeopleHistoryTodd McGovern·5 Comments
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE: TRUTH, JUSTICE & BUFFY’S WAY Benito Vila·February 17, 2021Born on the Piapot Plains Cree First Nation Reserve in Saskatchewan, Buffy Sainte-Marie was raised by adoptive parents...All Please Kill Me PostsBenito VilaCool PeopleInterviewsMusicians·0 Comments
THE LOST TESTAMENT OF SAM BUTERA: THE RISE & FALL OF ‘THE WILDEST SHOW IN VEGAS’ Burt Kearns·February 16, 2021Sax player and arranger Sam Butera was ‘Keith Richards to Louis Prima’s Mick Jagger’ once he joined the...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfBurt KearnsCool PeopleHistoryInterviewsMusicians·6 Comments
PINK FAIRIES: THE COSMIC ROCK FUZZ OF PUNK’S PIONEERS Adam Ganderson·February 15, 2021The story of the Pink Fairies is like a trip down a rabbit hole into a psychedelicized wonderland...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfCool PeopleHistoryMusicians·2 Comments
BLOOD & GUTS: LIFE & DEATH AS A FORENSIC INVESTIGATOR Amy Haben·February 3, 2021The plots of Forensic Files, the CSI franchise, Endeavour, The Fall—and all these other popular TV shows and...All Please Kill Me PostsAmy HabenCool PeopleCrime·0 Comments
DIARY OF A DAMNED SOUL: THE ENDURING INFLUENCE OF ARTHUR RIMBAUD Ingrid Marie Jensen·February 1, 2021It could be argued that the French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was the first punk. Instead of using...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleIngrid JensenPoetry·0 Comments
SYLVAIN SYLVAIN: SLEEP BABY DOLL James Marshall·January 20, 2021Sylvain Sylvain was the secret weapon of the New York Dolls, the diplomat and cheerleader who held the...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleJames MarshallR.I.P.·2 Comments
MEET THE BEATLES WITH MILES: AN INTERVIEW BY LEGS MCNEIL Legs McNeil·January 7, 2021Miles (aka Barry Miles) had a front-row seat to the London underground scene of the 1960s, as a...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleInterviewsLegs McNeilPKM Archive·1 Comment
ALICE BAG: AN L.A. PUNK LEGEND Lucretia Tye Jasmine·January 5, 2021Alicia Armendariz (aka Alice Bag) is a Los Angeles punk legend, not just for her groundbreaking first band...ActivismAll Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleInterviewsLucretia Tye JasmineMusicians·0 Comments
FOXY LADY: HONORING PAM GRIER Mark Jacobson·December 24, 2020Originally written in 1975, at the height of the so-called “Blaxploitation-era”, this New York Magazine piece was recently...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleFilmHistoryMark Jacobson·0 Comments