STANLEY DORFMAN: TOP OF THE POPS AND BEYOND
The driving force behind the UK’s influential Top of the Pops (aka TOTP) TV program during its mid-1960s...
Interviews
EXITING ALTAMONT, ENTERING SUBURBIA: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF BILL OWENS
He viewed the mayhem of the 1969 Altamont concert from high up on a light tower and left...
Lost and Found: Roy Harper
In the best of all possible worlds, a man who has made music with the likes of Led...
Mariann Marlowe: A Living Legend in the East Village
The owner of the first punk rock boutique in New York is still making a go of it...
Boom: The Second Coming of The Sonics
A new documentary on legendary band The Sonics by Jordan Albertsen opens a window on the rich and...
INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT: THE FACTS ABOUT WAX TRAX! RECORDS
Not many record stores had their own label, and not many stores could have touched the lives of...
LOOKING FOR STIV BATORS
In his fifth documentary, filmmaker Danny “Looking for Johnny” Garcia takes a deep dive into the life and...
KURT VONNEGUT’S CRUSADE
50 years after the publication of the now literary (and film) classic Slaughterhouse-Five, our editor Alan Bisbort looks...
WHY THE RAMONES MATTER: A CONVERSATION WITH DONNA GAINES
Even as a teen hanging out on street corners in Queens, Donna Gaines was doing research for her...
DEKE DICKERSON: MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR!
Because he’s so good on the guitar, the Missouri native’s million other hats are often overlooked in the...
JEREMY REED: RUINED BY POETRY
British writer and provocateur extraordinaire talks about some wild sidetrips his literary career has taken, how he has...
DAVID J.: GOING FAR BEYOND BAUHAUS
The bass player and biographer of the beloved post-punk band [Who Killed Mister Moonlight: Bauhaus, Black Magick, and...
PETER STAMPFEL: THE LAST HOLY MODAL ROUNDER TELLS ALL
At 80, the tireless and talented fiddle, banjo and guitar player, Ur-punk provocateur, former Rounder, Fug, devotee of...
OVERCOMING ADVERSITY: A DRUNK’S REDEMPTION
Time to raise a celebratory, non-alcoholic toast because Sweet Adversity by Donald Newlove (one of PKM’s “Best Books By...