ROLLING STONE: LIFE AND DEATH OF BRIAN JONES
The acclaimed guitarist Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, Gods and Monsters, Lou Reed, et al.) has long...
Film
THE GHASTLY ONE: JIMMY MCDONOUGH TALKS ABOUT ANDY MILLIGAN AND HIS TRANSGRESSIVE CINEMA
Jimmy McDonough is best-known for his exhaustive bios of Neil Young (Shakey), Tammy Wynette (Tragic Country Queen) and...
HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT: UNRAVELING A MYSTERY
Jeff Krulik and John Heyn’s 1986 film Heavy Metal Parking Lot has become an unlikely cult classic. In...
MEDIUM COOL: HASKELL WEXLER’S HOT PROPHECY
The Oscar-winning cinematographer (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) Haskell Wexler turned his hand to film direction with Medium...
HOW HOLLYWOOD HANDLED THE HIPPIES
By the late 1960s, Hollywood had been infiltrated by psychedelia as a recreational pastime (pot, LSD, peyote were...
SHOOTING STIV BATORS AND LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH
When he was a senior at Boston’s Emerson College in 1982, Chris Epting was enticed by members of...
BASEBALL BOOKS AND MOVIES TO HELP MAKE IT THROUGH THIS SEASON
A summer without baseball is cruel and unusual, and probably unconstitutional too. More to the point, it is...
DENNIS HOPPER’S BLUE PERIOD: THE MAKING OF OUT OF THE BLUE (1980)
Dennis Hopper followed the success of Easy Rider (1969), which he directed and claims to have co-written, with...
PETER TOWNSHEND, KEN RUSSELL & TOMMY THE MOVIE 45 YEARS LATER
The Who’s 1969 double-album Tommy is generally considered the first ‘rock opera’ (cases could, of course, be made...
REBEL WITH A CAUSE: A DAUGHTER’S TAKE ON THE LEGEND OF NICHOLAS RAY
As a film director, Nicholas Ray made some memorable films, like They Live by Night, In a Lonely...
DO YOU RESPECT (ED) WOOD? A PRIMER ON THE ‘WORST DIRECTOR OF ALL TIME’
The real-life Edward D. Wood, Jr. was far more interesting than the character depicted by Johnny Depp in...
WINTER KILLS: HOW THE JFK ASSASSINATION CONSPIRACY THEORIES DROVE A NATION INSANE
Based on a novel by Richard Condon, the feature film Winter Kills (1979) reimagined the JFK assassination and...
WELCOME TO BOB BERT’S BATHTUB
In The Bathtub, filmmaker Dylan Mars Greenberg has placed Bob Bert, the drummer for Sonic Youth (among many...
HANK RANK ON CRIME, DANIEL JOHNSTON, BILL NYE & SHUT UP, LITTLE MAN!
Henry Rosenthal might just be West Coast punk’s Renaissance Man. One-time drummer for the legendary S.F. punk band...