UNKNOWN PLEASURES: JOY DIVISION’S MASTERPIECE AT 40 David Chiu·May 30, 2019The Manchester quartet navigated the post-punk waters on their own, self-releasing an EP and then giving the world...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfHistoryInterviewsMusiciansNews·0 Comments
PETER LAUGHNER: AN UNFINISHED LIFE Todd McGovern·May 23, 2019Cleveland’s vital and unsung punk scene would not be complete without a chapter on Peter Laughner. Laughner, who...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfCool PeopleHistoryInterviewsMusiciansNarrative Oral HistoryNewsTodd McGovern·5 Comments
JOHNNY THUNDERS: THE RAVEN BOY Bebe Buell·May 21, 2019When she first saw Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls, Bebe Buell thought of him as a...All Please Kill Me PostsBebe BuellCool PeopleHistory·8 Comments
SHE SHOT ANDY WARHOLS: THE DIRTY LIFE & CRIMES OF DOROTHY PODBER Burt Kearns·May 20, 2019She called it ‘performance art’ when, in 1964, she casually strolled into Andy Warhol’s Factory, pulled out a...All Please Kill Me PostsBurt KearnsHistory·2 Comments
Women of Rock Unite!: Oral History Project founder/director Tanya Pearson Explains How Sharon M. Hannon·May 7, 2019Frustrated over a lack of sources about women rock musicians, a Smith College grad student decided to go...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfCool PeopleHistoryInterviewsMusiciansNarrative Oral HistoryNewsSharon M. Hannon·1 Comment
SON OF A GUN: NEAL CASSADY’S SON JOHN TELLS ALL Laura Marie Braun·May 2, 2019John Allen Cassady, now 67, reflects on growing up with the king of the counterculture, the inspiration for...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfCool PeopleHistoryInterviewsNews·0 Comments
ARCHITECT OF STARDOM: IRVING MILLS AND DUKE ELLINGTON Tosh Berman·May 1, 2019His “Elvis” was Duke Ellington, but he did far more than manage the careers of the Duke, Cab...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleHistoryTosh Berman·0 Comments
STEALING STIV BATORS Bebe Buell·April 25, 2019Model and singer Bebe Buell fell into Stiv’s arms in the wake of her romances with Todd Rundgren,...All Please Kill Me PostsBebe BuellBest OfHistoryMusicians·1 Comment
Newly Released Bowie Demos Reveal a Never-Before-Heard “Space Oddity” and More Richie Unterberger·April 22, 2019A previously unreleased batch of demos from the late 1960s reveals David Bowie groping toward the sound, vision...All Please Kill Me PostsHistoryInterviewsMusiciansNewsRichie Unterberger·1 Comment
EXITING ALTAMONT, ENTERING SUBURBIA: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF BILL OWENS Gregory Daurer·April 11, 2019He viewed the mayhem of the 1969 Altamont concert from high up on a light tower and left...All Please Kill Me PostsHistoryInterviewsNewsPhotography·1 Comment
Lost and Found: Roy Harper Alan Bisbort·April 10, 2019In the best of all possible worlds, a man who has made music with the likes of Led...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsHistoryInterviewsMusicians·0 Comments
ELVIS OR ORION?: A STAR IS REBORN Sam Carlson·April 1, 2019Sixty-five years ago this summer, Sun Records released a single (“That’s All Right” b/w “Blue Moon of Kentucky”)...All Please Kill Me PostsHistoryMusicians·1 Comment
LOST AND FOUND: SANDY DENNY Alan Bisbort·March 26, 2019Sandy Denny (1947-1978) had one of the most remarkable voices in British folk-rock as well as superior songwriting...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsHistoryMusicians·1 Comment
KENNETH PITT: THE ARCHITECT WHO TURNED DAVID JONES INTO DAVID BOWIE Tosh Berman·March 19, 2019Bowie’s first manager was an old school, former publicist for Sinatra, Ellington, Jerry Lee Lewis and Manfred Mann,...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleHistoryR.I.P.Tosh Berman·0 Comments