A previously unreleased batch of demos from the late 1960s reveals David Bowie groping toward the sound, vision and alter egos he would later assume, and then ...
After 30 years of vocal work with The Rolling Stones, Bernard Fowler is releasing an album of his unique interpretations of some of the band’s back catalog...
She was driving a car at 11, married (for the first of 8 times) by 14 and joined her brother Jerry Lee Lewis on tour as a teen. She flirted with ‘60s pop stard...
The driving force behind the UK’s influential Top of the Pops (aka TOTP) TV program during its mid-1960s heyday, Stanley Dorfman relocated to the U.S. where he...
He viewed the mayhem of the 1969 Altamont concert from high up on a light tower and left before the Stones hit the stage, but by then Bill Owens had already cap...
In the best of all possible worlds, a man who has made music with the likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Nice, Paul McCartney, Ian Anderson, Peter Townshend...
The owner of the first punk rock boutique in New York is still making a go of it with Enz’s boutique. She talks to Larry Baumhor about the changing scenes of Ne...
A new documentary on legendary band The Sonics by Jordan Albertsen opens a window on the rich and influential legacy of garage rock in the Pacific Northwest, an...
Not many record stores had their own label, and not many stores could have touched the lives of people like Peter Murphy, David J, Ian MacKaye and Trent Reznor ...
In his fifth documentary, filmmaker Danny “Looking for Johnny” Garcia takes a deep dive into the life and legacy of the Dead Boys front man. Included in STIV is...
50 years after the publication of the now literary (and film) classic Slaughterhouse-Five, our editor Alan Bisbort looks back on some of his personal encounters...
Even as a teen hanging out on street corners in Queens, Donna Gaines was doing research for her career in sociology. But then four guys from Queens, The Ramones...
Because he’s so good on the guitar, the Missouri native’s million other hats are often overlooked in the shuffle: writer, archivist, collector of weird albums, ...
British writer and provocateur extraordinaire talks about some wild sidetrips his literary career has taken, how he has managed to write his numerous books by h...
