After sketching out the creative blueprint for Memphis-based Big Star, the band that launched a thousand other “power pop” bands, Chris Bell left it in Alex Chi...
As the co-founder (with Richard Gottehrer) of Sire Records in 1966, Seymour Stein reshaped the direction of popular music with his signing and tireless support ...
Sun Ra, “one of the strangest artists that America has ever produced” was once on the cover of Rolling Stone, shared bills with the MC5, performed on Saturday N...
A recently discovered tape, briefly released by Morrison on iTunes, may be a rock & roll Rosetta stone, serving as the link between Van the sorta-pop star a...
Singer/songwriter Mary Lee’s Corvette achieved a surprising breakthrough with a 2002 reinterpretation of Blood on the Tracks and she hasn’t stopped si...
Founding WURM member and Black Flag bassist Chuck Dukowski talks to Eric Davidson about the California punk rock scene in the 70s and 80s, the recent reissue of...
Luke Spiller and the boys turn the clock back decades for Pamela Des Barres and their fans
It’s a very rare moment when I wish I was a young woman again. Socio...
The soulful sax player is in much demand as an accompanist (for Charles Bradley, Sharon Jones, Lee Fields and James Hunter, among others) but he's equally at ho...
Hearing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan launched Sal Maida on a journey - to London in the Swinging Sixties, tenures with Roxy Music, Milk ’N’ Cookies, and Spar...
Ken Kelly, Frank Frazetta’s nephew, jumpstarted a career in art with a little help from Gene Simmons in 1975 and then became a household name
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Alan Graham was married to Morrison’s sister Ann and has written a memoir about his friendship with Jim, another about his boyhood in Liverpool growing up aroun...
Sylvia Reed - Lou Reed's wife, art designer, manager, and reading partner - offers insights into the most productive period of Lou’s career
Sylvia (Morales) Re...
Psychedelic Sixties’ Bay Area survivors the Chocolate Watchband cut their teeth on bills with the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead but went their own wa...
Tav Falco is a musician, photographer, filmmaker, and writer, who has led the psychedelic rock group Panther Burns since 1979. Todd McGovern talks to Tav about ...
