‘ZEN BASTARD’ PAUL KRASSNER HAS THE LAST LAUGH AND THE LAST WORD
Publisher/editor of The Realist, satirist, comedian, Merry Prankster, Yippie co-founder, and compatriot of a who’s who of the...
Interviews
A LOVE SUPREME: HOW JOHN COLTRANE CHANGED THE WORLD
With a single night’s recording session and a 1965 album, “Trane” pointed the way toward a new consciousness...
The Day Lemmy Taught Me About Speed
Motörhead’s leader holds forth on the joys of the powder, the dangers of heroin, the need for a...
Glenn Mercer and The Feelies still ride those crazy rhythms
The Feelies singer/guitarist Glenn Mercer ruminates on the 30th anniversary of Only Life, his band’s classic album, which...
GARY LEWIS, ‘JERRY’S KID,’ RUNS FOR HIS LIFE
Gary Lewis, Jerry Lewis’ son, learned the tricks of the sticks from Buddy Rich, grew up around the...
LOU REED’S ARCHIVE HOLDS SIX HUNDRED HOURS OF MOSTLY UNRELEASED AUDIO, AND OTHER REVELATIONS FROM HIS ARCHIVIST
Don Fleming, rock musician (Gumball, Dinosaur Jr, Velvet Monkeys) and producer (Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, Hole, Alice Cooper,...
DOUG YULE: THE FORGOTTEN VELVET
He appeared on more Velvet Underground recordings than John Cale or Nico and yet he is seldom mentioned...
STERLING SPEAKS! STERLING MORRISON’S LAST INTERVIEW WITH LEGS MCNEIL, 1995
Sterling Morrison (1942-1995) was the guitarist for the Velvet Underground, appearing on all four studio albums that the...
SHOOTING THE BREEZE WITH THELMA AND THE SLEAZE
LG, the frontwoman of Nashville’s Thelma and the Sleaze, talks to PKM about being a ‘child of the...
PETER NOONE IS THE BIGGEST SEX PISTOLS FAN EVER! AND OTHER STARTLING REVELATIONS FROM THE HEAD HERMIT
The former child TV star was part of the British Invasion that conquered America, chums with Keith Moon,...
STILL ALIVE ON ARRIVAL: STEVE FORBERT, HONORARY PUNK
In his new memoir, Big City Cat: My Life in Folk Rock, the groundbreaking singer-songwriter Steve Forbert recounts...
THE JOYS OF RENT BOYS AND DRAG QUEENS, THE STOOGES AND BOWIE: A CONVERSATION WITH LEEE BLACK CHILDERS
Photographer and scene maker Leee Black Childers on his wild and woolly ride with Iggy, the Stooges, David...
NEWS FLASH: EAST GERMAN PUNKS TORE DOWN THE BERLIN WALL!
In his incendiary new book Burning Down the Haus, Tim Mohr documents the “secret history of punk rock...
THE ‘5TH RAMONE’ SPEAKS!
Ramones Tour Manager Monte A. Melnick on the fights, the insanity, and the passions! The Ramones formed in...