IT’S THE TIME OF THE SEASON FOR COLIN BLUNSTONE & THE ZOMBIES
The Zombies were part of the first British Invasion, along with the Beatles, the Stones, et al. What...
Interviews
LOOKING WEST WITH LARRY MCMURTRY
The writer and bookseller Larry McMurtry, who died earlier this year at 84, was a Texas native best...
NILS LOFGREN: ROCK’S MOST VALUABLE PLAYER
Nils Lofgren has been both a bandleader and a team player, and is equally accomplished in both roles....
LARRY FLYNT FOR PRESIDENT: NADIA SZOLD’S NEW DOCUMENTARY
Nadia Szold’s documentary Larry Flynt for President was scheduled to have its premiere last year. But COVID put...
NEW YORKERS: PHOTOGRAPHER SALLY DAVIES SNAPS THE LAST OF THE BOHEMIANS
Sally Davies made her mark in New York as a painter before abruptly switching to photography around 2000....
MILES COPELAND: HIS LIFE IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS
Miles Copeland III was already a veteran music promoter and manager when the punk scene exploded in London....
UNSANE: RENOWNED POWER TRIO GET A BELATED DEBUT
Unsane, the noise-rock power trio, created music straight out of the abyss of NYC in the late 1980s...
CREATION STORIES: ALAN MCGEE’S LIFE, LABEL, LEGACY COMES TO A THEATER NEAR YOU
Glaswegian Alan McGee was the embodiment of the D.I.Y. spirit of the 1980s and 1990s, bringing Oasis, Primal...
SAM COOKE: EPITOME OF COOL
Sam Cooke is back in the spotlight with the release One Night in Miami, a feature film set...
SCAT RECORDS REBORN: CLEVELAND ROCKS AGAIN
Cleveland’s Scat Records, brainchild of Robert Griffin, set a high bar for indie labels in the Midwest, especially...
DAVID AMRAM: ON KEROUAC, GINSBERG, MINGUS, SPIRIT AND FAMILY
Composer David Amram, now 90, has worked with some of the jazz greats, including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins,...
ERIC ANDERSEN: BEAT SENSIBILITY IN A FOLKSINGER CROWD
Eric Andersen came to music through Rimbaud, Baudelaire, the Beats, and his own inveterate wanderlust. After a teen...
RICKIE LEE JONES: THE DUCHESS OF COOLSVILLE IS BACK
Rickie Lee Jones is back in the spotlight with a compelling memoir, Last Chance Texaco, and a 40th...
WAYNE KRAMER TALKS DRUGS, PRISON, MUSIC, SURVIVAL
Wayne Kramer of the MC5 was sent to ‘The Narcotic Farm’ in 1975, the same federal facility—part hospital/part...