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,...
Interviews
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,...
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE: TRUTH, JUSTICE & BUFFY’S WAY
Born on the Piapot Plains Cree First Nation Reserve in Saskatchewan, Buffy Sainte-Marie was raised by adoptive parents...
THE LOST TESTAMENT OF SAM BUTERA: THE RISE & FALL OF ‘THE WILDEST SHOW IN VEGAS’
Sax player and arranger Sam Butera was ‘Keith Richards to Louis Prima’s Mick Jagger’ once he joined the...
JONI MITCHELL: THE FIRST FIVE YEARS
Despite being regarded as one of her generation’s greatest singer-songwriters, Joni Mitchell labored in relative obscurity for years...
SKULL FORMING: TIM WRIGHT AFTER PERE UBU
Years ago, the celebrated composer and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp got to know and perform with Tim Wright, the...
SECRET TREATIES: PRODUCER MURRAY KRUGMAN ON BLUE ÖYSTER CULT, THE DICTATORS & MORE
Murray Krugman was one-half of a dynamic duo (with Sandy Pearlman) that helped shape the sound of the...
THE LONG NIGHT OF JOHN MARTYN
Before his late-career decline, John Martyn was one of the most innovative figures in the British folk-rock firmament,...
JOHN TAYLOR: STILL IN THE PLEASURE GROOVE WITH DURAN DURAN
John Taylor is the bass guitarist in Duran Duran, a band that stormed out of the New Romantic...
RUBBERHEAD: AKRON’S LASTING IMPACT ON CHUCK STATLER, GODFATHER OF MUSIC VIDEO
Chuck Statler started his long career in innovative and influential music video by collaborating with his classmates and...
AS NEEDED FOR ANXIETY: RICHARD KERN’S PHOTOGRAPHS OF PHARMACEUTICAL CHIC
A unifying thread weaves through the work of ‘trangressive’ filmmaker and photographer Richard Kern. In this interview with...
MEET THE BEATLES WITH MILES: AN INTERVIEW BY LEGS MCNEIL
Miles (aka Barry Miles) had a front-row seat to the London underground scene of the 1960s, as a...
ALICE BAG: AN L.A. PUNK LEGEND
Alicia Armendariz (aka Alice Bag) is a Los Angeles punk legend, not just for her groundbreaking first band...