PAGING V. VALE: STILL RE/SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH
Countercultural anthropologist and founding member of Blue Cheer, V. Vale has documented the 1970s San Francisco punk scene...
Interviews
JORDAN: DEFYING GRAVITY AT THE DAWN OF PUNK
Working in Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s Sex shop on King’s Road in London at the dawn of...
MR. TAMBOURINE MAN: BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE’S JOEL GION TELLS ALL
Brian Jonestown Massacre mainstay and longtime partner in musical crime with BJM’s visionary leader Anton Newcombe, Joel Gion...
ONE MORE THING – CATCHING UP WITH L7’S JENNIFER PRECIOUS FINCH
The feisty, fiery photographer and bass player for L7 has stayed true to the punk spirit since the...
JESSE MALIN: FROM D GENERATION TO REGENERATION
Like the Ramones, Jesse Malin grew up in Queens, one generation later. Steeped in Kiss, Elton John, The...
BLAZING AWAY WITH MARIANNE FAITHFULL: A 1989 FLASHBACK
After a harrowing decade of personal and medical travails, Marianne Faithfull staged a remarkable musical comeback with the...
DUTCH NUGGETS: ORIGINAL 1960s’ ROCK & ROLL ‘ARTYFACTS’ THAT DEFY TIME
You’ve heard of the British Invasion, right? Well, ‘the Dutch Invasion’ that followed did not exactly storm the...
BE KIND TO ME: THE MUSIC AND ART OF MICHAEL HURLEY
Michael Hurley could be called the godfather, or grandfather, of ‘freak-folk” but the Oregon-based singer, songwriter, artist and...
MANCHESTER’S UNITED: BUZZCOCKS’ STEVE DIGGLE SPEAKS HIS MIND
The brainy and witty Buzzcocks guitarist Steve Diggle opens up about the origins of punk in Manchester, the...
PHIL OCHS: BOUND FOR GLORY
A driving force of musical dissent in the 1960s, Phil Ochs (1940-1976) and his musical legacy are ripe...
ANDY WARHOL AND THE BEATS IN DENVER: A CONVERSATION WITH MARK SINK
Denver photographer, street artist and gallery owner Mark Sink talks about the Andy Warhol he knew, the one...
ELLIOTT SMITH TURNS 50!
His tragic death at age 34 has spun a mysterious web around Elliott Smith’s musical legacy and spawned...
JOHN SIMON’S MUSICAL LIFE: CHEAP THRILLS, BIG PINK & OTHER HEARSAY
Producer and record industry insider, John Simon helmed some classic albums by Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin and the...
POLY STYRENE REMEMBERED
Marianne Joan Elliott-Said (1957-2011), aka Poly Styrene, was a punk pioneer in ways that are only now being...