KID CONGO POWERS: DREAMING ABOUT LUX & POISON IVY, JEFFREY LEE PIERCE AND SEAN DELEAR
The genial former member of the Gun Club, the Cramps, Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds and a collaborator with...
History
THE KRAY TWINS: A COUPLE OF LIKELY LADS IN SWINGING LONDON
Reg and Ron Kray were the OTHER Glimmer Twins of the Swinging Sixties in London. Notorious gangsters, murderers...
BECOMING TWIGGY: THE FASHION MODEL AS POP STAR
Hers was a face (and body) that launched a thousand quips but also made her the first fashion...
‘LUSTFUL AND PERVERTED DESIRES’: THE OZ TRIAL, LONDON, 1971
Jim Anderson was one of three editors on trial for publishing OZ magazine, the now legendary psychedelic underground...
RON AND RUSSELL MAEL: STILL SQUEEZING OUT SPARKS
After 50 years and 25 albums and collaborations with a who’s who of rock ‘n’ roll, pop and...
IT DON’T BOTHER ME: THE LEGACY OF BERT JANSCH
From his earliest days in the folk clubs of Edinburgh—where he learned from greats like Davey Graham, Martin...
GUITARIST DEREK BAILEY: FREE FOR ALL IMPROVISOR
Derek Bailey (1930-2005) was a successful guitarist playing pop music in dance halls and jazz in nightclubs in...
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER: A SOUL FOREVER ON ICE
Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) was an enigma. The former Black Panther, revolutionary and author was also a murderer, rapist,...
HIAWATHA BAILEY: PANTHER, PUNK, CULT HERO
If you spent any time in the Detroit/Ann Arbor cultural scene in the last 50 years, chances are...
THE LOST TESTAMENT OF SAM BUTERA: THE RISE & FALL OF ‘THE WILDEST SHOW IN VEGAS’
Sax player and arranger Sam Butera was ‘Keith Richards to Louis Prima’s Mick Jagger’ once he joined the...
PINK FAIRIES: THE COSMIC ROCK FUZZ OF PUNK’S PIONEERS
The story of the Pink Fairies is like a trip down a rabbit hole into a psychedelicized wonderland...
HOW HOLLYWOOD HANDLED THE HIPPIES, PART II: BIKERS, BAD TRIPS, LOVE-INS
Hollywood brass had discovered bikers long before the hippies (see Brando in The Wild One, 1953) but they...
JUNIOR KIMBROUGH’S JUKE JOINT: KEEPING DIRTY BLUES ALIVE
During the 1990s, a legendary but crumbling juke joint in the northern Mississippi hills kept the ‘dirty blues’...
SECRET TREATIES: PRODUCER MURRAY KRUGMAN ON BLUE ÖYSTER CULT, THE DICTATORS & MORE
Murray Krugman was one-half of a dynamic duo (with Sandy Pearlman) that helped shape the sound of the...