BADFINGER: THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF ‘THE NEXT BEATLES’
Signed to Apple with direct hands-on help from all of the Beatles, particularly Paul (who gave them “Come...
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HARLEM OF THE WEST: SAN FRANCISCO’S FILLMORE DISTRICT
Before the hippies swarmed in to reshape America’s counterculture—and before the city embarked on a disastrous urban renewal...
CARLA BLEY: LIFE GOES ON, SO DOES MUSIC
Composer, pianist and activist Carla Bley was, from an early age, a rebel, turning her back on music...
AND IN THE END: A LOOK AT THE LAST DAYS OF THE BEATLES
So much has been written and said about The Beatles that it’s rare when something fresh comes along....
WEEGEE: NEW YORK’S FIRST PUNK PHOTOGRAPHER
Arthur Fellig (1899-1968), aka Weegee, was a hustler, carny barker and photojournalist all rolled into one rotund, cigar-chomping...
ROD EVANS: DEEP IN THE PURPLE
Rod Evans, original lead singer of hard-rocking Deep Purple, walked away from the music business in the late...
EWOLF: LIVING IN A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD
A Detroit-based photographer who was also in the hardcore punk trio Angry Red Planet, Ewolf began documenting the...
BACHIR ATTAR AND THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA
Though Brian Jones brought world-wide notice to these Moroccan master musicians in the early 1970s, their tradition goes...
TINA BELL’S HIDDEN LEGACY: THE BLACK WOMAN WHO CREATED THE SOUND OF GRUNGE
In 1983, the Seattle band Bam Bam, fronted by a talented, elegant Black woman named Tina Bell, created...
GEORGE BARRIS & ED “BIG DADDY” ROTH: THE STONES VS. BEATLES OF ‘60s L.A. KAR KULTURE
Ed “Big Daddy” Roth and George Barris created a new visual language that captured the unbridled spirit of...
GOING FOR BAROQUE: THE LEFT BANKE STORY
With the death of Tom Finn last month, all four original members (Finn, Michael Brown, George Cameron, Steve...
SAN FRANCISCO PUNK PRANKSTERS: PINK SECTION, INFLATABLE BOY CLAMS
Influenced by the punk scene centered at Mabuhay Gardens, and the fun, bohemian spirit of a city that...
CREEM RISES TO THE TOP AGAIN
Scott Crawford’s widely-acclaimed documentary film CREEM: America’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll Magazine has brought renewed attention, even reverence,...
VIKTOR TSOI: THE LEGEND OF RUSSIA’S GREATEST ROCK STAR LIVES ON
Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Russia’s most beloved rock & roll star. When Viktor...