Putting on punk shows in Los Angeles in the early 1980s became near to impossible with the lack of venues and police harassment of those events that did manage ...
CREEM magazine started with little more than an attitude, a love of the best and most barbaric rock & roll, and a staff of true believers. It became the num...
A new documentary on legendary band The Sonics by Jordan Albertsen opens a window on the rich and influential legacy of garage rock in the Pacific Northwest, an...
Not many record stores had their own label, and not many stores could have touched the lives of people like Peter Murphy, David J, Ian MacKaye and Trent Reznor ...
Looking for something to do when the weather outside is frightful? Pick up that remote or put your laptop on your lap, grab a blanket and a snack and tune in to...
Australia’s proto-punk pioneers formed in 1974, were signed by Seymour Stein in 1977, and influenced a generation of Oz rockers by leading a DIY revolution in S...
The press cried “fowl” when an innocent chicken was ravaged by a Canadian festival audience driven into a frenzy by beer, drugs and this relatively unknown rock...
Classic documentary about the crowd at a 1986 Judas Priest/Dokken concert in suburban Washington D.C. never gets old
For much of the 1980s, I freelanced for a ...
At 14, Richard Wershe Jr. infiltrated the Detroit drug trade for the FBI. He then turned his street knowledge into a lucrative cocaine business, until he was bu...
A new documentary, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, reveals the revolutionary simplicity of a children’s TV icon who redefined “authenticity” in a way that Sacha Baro...
Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015) was a world-renowned photographer and social documentarian with an eye and a soul that captured the brutality of humanity, transform...
Mick Ronson played beside David Bowie, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, and many others, and he finally receives his due in a new documentary.
The Los Angeles Times referr...
Todd Haynes, best known for his offbeat films about Bob Dylan and Karen Carpenter, is set to direct a documentary on the Velvet Underground.
Director Todd Hayn...
