WHO WAS KILLING THE COUNTRY STARS? STRINGBEAN, THE GRAND OLE OPRY MURDERS AND NASHVILLE’S DAYS OF FEAR Burt Kearns·December 19, 2018Lost in the shadows of the Watergate hearings and disco fever, four grisly murders riveted and terrified Music...All Please Kill Me PostsBurt KearnsCrimeHistoryMusicians·1 Comment
DANDELIONS AND DEAD FLOWERS: THE DISASTER AT ALTAMONT Sharon M. Hannon·December 6, 2018Fifty years ago, the hippie pipedream was said to come to an end at a race track 65...All Please Kill Me PostsHistoryMusiciansSharon M. Hannon·1 Comment
‘ZEN BASTARD’ PAUL KRASSNER HAS THE LAST LAUGH AND THE LAST WORD Benito Vila·November 13, 2018Publisher/editor of The Realist, satirist, comedian, Merry Prankster, Yippie co-founder, and compatriot of a who’s who of the...All Please Kill Me PostsBenito VilaComedyCool PeopleHistoryInterviews·1 Comment
DAVID BOX: THE OTHER ROCK & ROLL GENIUS FROM LUBBOCK Burt Kearns·November 7, 2018He joined the Crickets after Buddy Holly died in a plane crash, befriended Roy Orbison, toured with Dusty...All Please Kill Me PostsBurt KearnsHistoryMusicians·3 Comments
ELVIS IN THREE PICTURES Alan Bisbort·October 30, 2018It will be 50 years this December since Elvis Presley made his famous “comeback” on TV, and it...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsHistoryMusicians·0 Comments
LOU REED’S ARCHIVE HOLDS SIX HUNDRED HOURS OF MOSTLY UNRELEASED AUDIO, AND OTHER REVELATIONS FROM HIS ARCHIVIST Michael Shelley·October 17, 2018Don Fleming, rock musician (Gumball, Dinosaur Jr, Velvet Monkeys) and producer (Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, Hole, Alice Cooper,...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfHistoryInterviewsMichael ShelleyMusicians·2 Comments
DOUG YULE: THE FORGOTTEN VELVET Richie Unterberger·October 16, 2018He appeared on more Velvet Underground recordings than John Cale or Nico and yet he is seldom mentioned...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfHistoryInterviewsMusiciansRichie Unterberger·5 Comments
STERLING SPEAKS! STERLING MORRISON’S LAST INTERVIEW WITH LEGS MCNEIL, 1995 Legs McNeil·October 11, 2018Sterling Morrison (1942-1995) was the guitarist for the Velvet Underground, appearing on all four studio albums that the...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfCool PeopleHistoryInterviewsLegs McNeilMusicians·1 Comment
NEWS FLASH: EAST GERMAN PUNKS TORE DOWN THE BERLIN WALL! Alan Bisbort·September 26, 2018In his incendiary new book Burning Down the Haus, Tim Mohr documents the “secret history of punk rock...ActivismAlan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsBooksHistoryInterviews·0 Comments
JUDGMENT NIGHT: THE SOUNDTRACK THAT BLEW UP POP MUSIC Darren Paltrowitz·September 25, 2018We take a look at the 1993 film that, for the first time, brought rockers (J. Mascis, Sonic...All Please Kill Me PostsDarren PaltrowitzHistoryMusicians·0 Comments
THE ‘5TH RAMONE’ SPEAKS! Michael Shelley·September 24, 2018Ramones Tour Manager Monte A. Melnick on the fights, the insanity, and the passions! The Ramones formed in...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfHistoryInterviewsMichael Shelley·4 Comments
ZEKI MÜREN, THE DAVID BOWIE OF TURKEY Burt Kearns·September 12, 2018Never denying his homosexuality, the Turkish showman broke down barriers in his conservative nation, played Vegas, tutored Mick...All Please Kill Me PostsBurt KearnsHistoryMusicians·1 Comment
GLITTER MANIA AT THE RAINBOW FOR ELTON JOHN’S BIRTHDAY, 1974 Nora Novak·August 6, 2018Set the Wayback Machine for the Sunset Strip in 1974, at a decadent rock ‘n’ roll palace during...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfHistory·2 Comments
THE LONESOME DEATH OF DANNY RAPP: THE FRONT MAN FOR DANNY & THE JUNIORS Burt Kearns·July 24, 2018Danny Rapp, the man who first sang “Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay” and “At The Hop”...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfBurt KearnsHistoryMusicians·5 Comments