Paul McCartney’s younger brother, Michael, had a front row seat during the early days of the Quarrymen and the Beatles. He also had the smarts and talent to pi...
Patti Smith championed her, Paul Bowles translated her writings into English, but Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) may be best remembered for her embrace of ...
While a college student on a semester abroad in Spain, Ken Krayeske made a quixotic trip to Morocco to find Paul Bowles. Actually, the trip started six mon...
Dion DiMucci is rock ‘n’ roll’s ageless wonder. In his 80s now, he continues to amaze and inspire us with new material and new takes on old material. Norto...
Cue the spooky Halloween music because we’re going on a stroll among the grassy knolls of New York area cemeteries. Nothing like a little crypt crawl to go...
The legendary BBC DJ John Peel is rightly recalled for championing new, obscure and overlooked musical artists. He is less well known for his quixotic atte...
In 1989, journalist Cree McCree had the unusual, almost surreal, experience of conducting face to face interviews—within a 48-hour period—with both the one...
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was the original boundary pusher. No creative urge was safe from his efforts. He was many things—a poet, playwright, artist, cloth...
Ron Turner may be the last (gasp) of the original underground comics publishers still going strong. His Last Gasp imprint, established in San Francisco in 1970...
Don Letts, filmmaker, musician and DJ, came of age during the original punk scene in London. Born in England to Jamaican parents, Letts was always one of t...
When Robert Downey Sr.’s Putney Swope was released in 1969, America didn’t know what hit her. A surrealistic satire, the film hit all of America’s sore spo...
The Zombies were part of the first British Invasion, along with the Beatles, the Stones, et al. What made them stand out were the delicate vocals by Colin Bluns...
Mike Katz and Crispin Kott, self-described “rock and roll soulmates,” have done it again. With the recently published Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Franci...
Five years after the punk wave had washed over New York and London, Legs McNeil looked back in anger and awe at what it had wrought. In this story from his arch...
