Known as ‘The Bulldog,’ former New York Yankee Jim Bouton pissed off The Establishment with his tell-all book Ball Four, and went on to a career as anchorman, T...
The life of the legendary Japanese geisha murderess Sada Abe fascinated millions worldwide and inspired the movie, In the Realm of the Senses, which was banned ...
Mike Katz and Crispin Kott comb the boroughs for any and all hints of rock & roll's roots and put it all inside one handy-dandy guidebook; the Rock and...
Pamela Des Barres shares the origin story of her love of the thrift store treasure hunt, the goldmine of vintage fashions that changed her life, and the encount...
Eyewitness accounts finally reveal what really happened in the brawl between John Lennon and Chris Montez, which has become one of the great urban legends of ro...
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...
