PAMELA DES BARRES: SEARCHING FOR TOMORROW
After a blush of success with her all-girl group the GTOs and a role in Frank Zappa’s 200...
History
THE BIRTH OF GONZO AT THE KENTUCKY DERBY
Hunter S. Thompson became a known quantity with the publication of Hell’s Angels (1967), but it wasn’t until...
PETER STAMPFEL: THE LAST HOLY MODAL ROUNDER TELLS ALL
At 80, the tireless and talented fiddle, banjo and guitar player, Ur-punk provocateur, former Rounder, Fug, devotee of...
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD: SISTER OF THE DUST, SISTER OF OUR HEARTS
Christine Ohlman, the Beehive Queen of blue-eyed rock & soul, pays homage to Dusty Springfield, one of her greatest...
TOSH BERMAN: GROWING UP IN PUBLIC
His father, Wallace Berman, was one of the best-known artists in America, featured on the cover of the...
THE SOUND OF EAST L.A.: GOD’S CHILDREN AND THEE MIDNITERS
The Stones met Sly Stone when Little Willie G. stepped up to the microphone in the late 1960s/early...
PKM TV VISITS THE INFAMOUS DOM NIGHTCLUB ON ST MARK’S PLACE
Yes! This week Crispin Kott and Mike Katz of the Rock & Roll Explorer Guide to New York...
LOU REED: FREEING THE ROCK & ROLL ANIMAL
When Steve Katz, late of Blood Sweat & Tears and the Blues Project, signed on to produce some...
LED ZEPPELIN: DID THEY, OR DIDN’T THEY, PLAY?
Filmmaker Jeff Krulik, auteur of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, has created a gripping film about a Led Zeppelin...
A RIOT OF THEIR OWN: THE FIRST GENERATION OF FEMALE ROCK BANDS
It didn’t start with the Runaways or the Go-Go’s. 60s bands like Ace of Cups, She, The Girls,...
MICHAEL CHAIKEN: MAKING BOB DYLAN’S ARCHIVE COME ALIVE
The Dylan Archive curator’s road to Tulsa was paved with good obsessions, such as free jazz, Godard, the...
‘SHELLAC IN HIS VEINS’: AN INTERVIEW WITH SEYMOUR STEIN
As the co-founder (with Richard Gottehrer) of Sire Records in 1966, Seymour Stein reshaped the direction of popular...
THE ROAD FROM THE CATACOMBS TO ASTRAL WEEKS: VAN MORRISON’S LOST 1968 TAPE UNEARTHED
A recently discovered tape, briefly released by Morrison on iTunes, may be a rock & roll Rosetta stone,...
IT’S ALIVE! THE RAMONES!
Legendary producer Ed Stasium recorded The Ramones It’s Alive 41 years ago at the Rainbow Theatre in London...