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...
The bass player and biographer of the beloved post-punk band talks about his affinity for the Beats, friendships with William S. Burroughs, John Giorno and Jim...
At 80, the tireless and talented fiddle, banjo and guitar player, Ur-punk provocateur, former Rounder, Fug, devotee of Harry Smith, Spike Jones, Pete Seeger, Li...
Time to raise a celebratory, non-alcoholic toast because Sweet Adversity by Donald Newlove (one of PKM’s “Best Books By Drunks”) has just been reissued, after 4...
Navigating the terrain between pub rock and punk rock, Parker and his red-hot band The Rumour, with Nick Lowe at the controls, cooked up an intoxicating stew of...
Allison Wolfe has been inspiring grrrls, girls and women since the early 1990s when she co-founded the Riot Grrrl movement. Most well-known as frontwoman of Bra...
Legendary British photographer Terry O'Neill started out shooting the Beatles and the Stones as struggling young bands in the early 60s, and went on to create i...
