G. GORDON LIDDY: REST IN PEACE (NOT)
G. Gordon Liddy was one of the memorable characters to emerge from the Watergate scandals. A former FBI...
Interviews
REVEREND GARY DAVIS: I AM THE LIGHT OF THIS WORLD
Reverend Gary Davis (1896-1972), guitar virtuoso and folk-blues giant, moved from Durham, N.C. to New York City, where...
AUTOMNE ZINGG: THE MANY STRINGS OF HER ART
Automne Zingg is an artistic force. The New York City-based visual artist creates funny, surreal, psychedelic portraits and...
HUBERT SUMLIN: HOWLIN’ WOLF’S SECRET WEAPON
As Howlin’ Wolf’s longtime guitarist, Hubert Sumlin (1931-2011) kept to the shadows, but his sweet, subtle, sophisticated leads...
RICHARD HELL: THE PAST AND PRESENT OF DESTINY STREET
Richard Hell and the Voidoids are best-known for their debut album, the masterful Blank Generation (1977). Before completely...
NICK REYNOLDS: ALABAMA 3, THE SOPRANOS, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, SEX PISTOLS AND DEATH MASKS
The resume of Nick Reynolds has many fascinating facets—son of the mastermind of The Great Train Robbery, abstract...
NANCY BARILE: HARDCORE WAS NOT A BOYS’ CLUB
Nancy Barile was, along with countless other women in the city in the early 1980s, an integral part...
KID CONGO POWERS: DREAMING ABOUT LUX & POISON IVY, JEFFREY LEE PIERCE AND SEAN DELEAR
The genial former member of the Gun Club, the Cramps, Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds and a collaborator with...
THE DICTATORS BACK TOGETHER! ANDY SHERNOFF TELLS ALL
With their irreverent mix of ‘teengenerate’ sarcasm, three-chord garage rock, surf music and party-hearty stage antics, The Dictators...
IT DON’T BOTHER ME: THE LEGACY OF BERT JANSCH
From his earliest days in the folk clubs of Edinburgh—where he learned from greats like Davey Graham, Martin...
CARTOONIST PETER BAGGE: BEYOND PUNK, GRUNGE AND HATE
Music defined the punk and grunge eras, but comics played an essential role, too. Cartoonist Peter Bagge, an...
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER: A SOUL FOREVER ON ICE
Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) was an enigma. The former Black Panther, revolutionary and author was also a murderer, rapist,...
COOL TOWN: HOW ATHENS, GEORGIA CHANGED AMERICAN CULTURE
In her book Cool Town, Grace Elizabeth Hale offers a history of the Athens, Georgia, music scene, how...
DAVID HENDERSON: BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT CO-FOUNDER AND THE ‘VOODOO CHILD’
David Henderson, poet, writer and voice, knew and worked with giants like Ornette Coleman, Langston Hughes, Sun Ra,...