DENNIS HOPPER’S BLUE PERIOD: THE MAKING OF OUT OF THE BLUE (1980) David Stewart·May 4, 2020Dennis Hopper followed the success of Easy Rider (1969), which he directed and claims to have co-written, with...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfFilmHistory·1 Comment
ROOM FOR JELLO: AN ORAL HISTORY OF FAULTY PRODUCTS RECORDS Eric Davidson·April 28, 2020Faulty Products was a small record label and distribution company with an outsized influence at a crucial time...All Please Kill Me PostsEric DavidsonHistoryRecord Labels·1 Comment
BANG: A PRIMER ON RUSSIAN ROCK, FROM GORKY PARK TO VIKTOR TSOI Daniel Bowen·April 22, 2020Russia may seem like some distant, ominous land—largely due to unrelenting Cold War propaganda—but the popular music of...All Please Kill Me PostsHistoryMusiciansVIDEO·1 Comment
THE COCKETTES: CONJURING MAGICK IN SAN FRANCISCO AND TAKING IT ON THE ROAD TO NYC Fayette Hauser·April 20, 2020The Cockettes were a “hippie theater group” formed in 1969 and based in and around Haight-Ashbury. The group...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksHistoryInterviews·1 Comment
PETER TOWNSHEND, KEN RUSSELL & TOMMY THE MOVIE 45 YEARS LATER David Stewart·April 15, 2020The Who’s 1969 double-album Tommy is generally considered the first ‘rock opera’ (cases could, of course, be made...All Please Kill Me PostsFilmHistory·4 Comments
WERE WE ALL BRAINWASHED BY THE CIA WITH SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK & ROLL? Joseph L. Flatley·April 14, 2020Did you know that LSD and hippies were invented by the CIA in the 1960s? No? Well, the...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfHistoryJoseph L. FlatleyMusicians·15 Comments
REBEL WITH A CAUSE: A DAUGHTER’S TAKE ON THE LEGEND OF NICHOLAS RAY Benito Vila·April 13, 2020As a film director, Nicholas Ray made some memorable films, like They Live by Night, In a Lonely...All Please Kill Me PostsBenito VilaFilmHistoryInterviews·1 Comment
JOHN LEE HOOKER: THE KING OF THE BOOGIE Cree McCree·April 9, 2020Born in the Mississippi Delta, the son of a sharecropping pastor, John Lee Hooker absorbed the blues of...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleHistoryInterviewsMusicians·0 Comments
DO YOU RESPECT (ED) WOOD? A PRIMER ON THE ‘WORST DIRECTOR OF ALL TIME’ Tony Mostrom·April 8, 2020The real-life Edward D. Wood, Jr. was far more interesting than the character depicted by Johnny Depp in...All Please Kill Me PostsAnthony MostromFilmHistory·1 Comment
BILLY HOUGH: THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PATTI SMITH’S HORSES ALBUM Billy Hough·April 7, 2020Billy Hough tackles Patti Smith’s Horses in 3 minutes Legs McNeil gave Billy Hough three minutes to unpack...All Please Kill Me PostsBilly HoughHistoryPKM TVThings You Should KnowVIDEO·0 Comments
MUSCLE SHOALS: SOUL MUSIC FOR THIS TIME OF ISOLATION-A SINGER’S LOVE LETTER IN SONG Christine Ohlman·April 6, 2020Christine Ohlman, the Beehive Queen, is not just a great singer. She’s also a record collector and an...All Please Kill Me PostsChristine OhlmanHistoryMusicians·1 Comment
A RIOT GRRRL PRIMER: REVOLUTION GIRL STYLE NOW Sharon M. Hannon·April 2, 2020As Bikini Kill makes plans for their first tour in 23 years, PKM revisits the roots of the...All Please Kill Me PostsArtBest OfCool PeopleHistoryMusiciansSharon M. Hannon·2 Comments
THE SOUND OF PHILADELPHIA: RIDING THE CAMEO PARKWAY WITH JOE RENZETTI Richie Unterberger·April 1, 2020Philadelphia’s relatively short-lived (1956-1967) Cameo-Parkway label never got the attention of contemporaneous labels like Motown, Chess, Stax, Scepter/Wand...All Please Kill Me PostsHistoryInterviewsMusiciansRichie Unterberger·2 Comments
BASIL WOLVERTON: AMERICA’S WEIRDEST ARTIST Alan Bisbort·March 31, 2020Cartoonist Basil Wolverton (1909-1978) cast a large, if sometimes unrecognized, shadow over the underground comix of the 1960s...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsArtBest OfHistory·1 Comment