We are happy to announce that Pamela Des Barres, bestselling author (I’m With the Band) and legendary rock & roll scene groupie, will be writing regularly f...
PKM continues its series of seminal women in punk! This installment takes us into the explosion of the British punk scene with a look at musicians, designers, a...
Paul Collins, acclaimed drummer for power-pop icons The Nerves (best known for "Hanging on the Telephone"), The Breakaways, and The Beat reflects on the early d...
MacDougal Street, once a cultural ground zero for the Village - the place where Hemingway and Pound drank, the Beats hung out, and where Dylan played his first ...
Erotica imprints such as Olympia Press gave many authors, including Fran Lebowitz, Diane di Prima and Roald Dahl early career boosts: writing pornography under ...
Star of stage, screen and rock ‘n’ roll, the ‘blonde bombshell’ Mae West was praised by George Bernard Shaw, painted by Salvador Dali, photographed by Richard A...
When I was 14, my father accused me of being a whore and a drug addict. But I didn’t become a whore and a drug addict until I was 19. That’s when I lost my virg...
Even though the all-purpose expletive has been diluted of its magic, it still helped propel jazz, blues, rock, punk and rap into the countercultural mix (see: M...
In 1966, the Rolling Stones and Marianne Faithfull were set to create the soundtrack for and play youth gang members in a movie based on the novel Only Lovers L...
Deke Dickerson charts the path of the energetic & talented 13-year-old hillbilly named Larry Collins, who recorded the first punk rock record in 1958, and i...
"We must either love each other, or we must die." In 1964, two 60-second political TV spots forever changed the tone of American politics, pointing the way towa...
Gut Terk - the legendary outlaw biker, Merry Prankster, Blue Cheer manager, poster and album cover artist and Acid Test graduate now rides in paradise
Allan “G...
The Harry Houdini Séances: The world-famous magician was fixated on trying to contact his dead mother. After he died, his wife held annual séances to try to con...
The legendary Portland, Oregon band Dead Moon's Fred and Toody Cole and Andrew Loomis were hugely influential in Portland’s ‘90s punk scene. PKM talks to F...
