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SAM CUTLER: LIFE WITH THE STONES, THE DEAD & OTHER WONDERFUL REPROBATES

Adam Ganderson·April 7, 2022

Sam Cutler, a young man from London, was the tour manager for the Rolling Stones on their infamous 1969 U.S. tour, which ended at Altamont, after which he remained in the U.S. for years, taking over the same role...

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ALL THE RAJ: HOW ‘NORWEGIAN WOOD’ UNLEASHED THE ‘INDIAN INVASION’

John Kruth·April 6, 2022

Once George Harrison picked up the sitar to add exotic sounds to John Lennon’s “Norwegian Wood”, the pop world turned toward the East, as did luminaries like John Coltrane and composer Philip Glass. Suddenly, the pop charts resonated with...

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THE KNACK … AND HOW TO GET IT: AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESCOTT NILES

Valerie Simadis·April 5, 2022

The Knack hit the ground running in 1979, with the megahit single “My Sharona” off their debut album Get The Knack. Partly because of their meteoric success and the resultant media hype (not the band’s fault), the actual music...

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POLY STYRENE: BREAKING DOWN THE BONDAGE

Richie Unterberger·March 29, 2022

A new documentary film, Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, clears up some of the mystery around the remarkable biracial woman born Marian Elliott. The film, directed by Paul Sng and Celeste Bell, Poly’s daughter, is also a welcome reminder...

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WE NEVER LEARN: GUNK PUNK IN THE 1990S

Alan Bisbort·March 28, 2022

Eric Davidson, front man of the Ohio-based New Bomb Turks, is equally adept at rocking, rolling and writing. During the 1990s, the Turks were rolling, too, through the clubs of the Midwest, South, West, Northwest and even a few cities...

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Walt Whitman, around the time he was hanging out at Pfaff's.

WALT WHITMAN: THE FIRST AMERICAN PUNK POET?

Alan Bisbort·March 24, 2022

The enduring image of Walt Whitman is as a bearded old sage living out his years in his Camden home. And yet, he was still a relatively unknown writer into his 40s, living with his mother in Brooklyn and...

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RAYMOND CHANDLER: THE PRIVATE EYE AS L.A. POET

Ingrid Marie Jensen·March 23, 2022

Los Angeles may have found her Virgil in an Anglo-Irish-American detective novelist named Raymond Chandler (1888-1959). The character Chandler led through L.A.’s underworld in 7 now-classic novels was Philip Marlowe, a wise-cracking private eye whose clients dragged him through the...

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ALEX COX: THE RETURN OF WALKER

David Stewart·March 22, 2022

British filmmaker Alex Cox made his name with Sid and Nancy and cult-fave Repo Man. However, his epic story of greed, Latin American politics and U.S. chicanery, Walker (1987)—set in Nicaragua in the mid-1800s—should have been his pinnacle. With a...

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BELIEVE IT: MARCIA RESNICK’S LENS ON NYC

Sandra Hale Schulman·March 21, 2022

Photographer Marcia Resnick was fully embedded in the Downtown NYC scenes of the 1970s and 1980s. Her “Resnick’s Believe It” feature in the Soho Weekly News (1979-82) was essential viewing, as she specialized in the ‘Bad Boys’ of the city,...

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BREAKIN’ THE LEVER OFF WITH HASIL ADKINS

Bob Pomeroy·March 17, 2022

The amazing West Virginian Hasil Adkins (1937-2005) was a one-man band (guitar, drums) who took rock ‘n’ roll, rockabilly, country and country blues right to the edge of madness. His prodigious supply of self-penned tunes was fueled by alcohol and...

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WHY BARBRA STREISAND MATTERS

Tom Santopietro·March 16, 2022

As she nears her 80th birthday (April 24), Barbra Streisand remains a singular figure in American entertainment. By the age of 28, this brassy Brooklyn girl had already done the unthinkable, winning the EGOT—Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards—and she...

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THE FALL AND RISE OF ERVIN NYIREGYHAZI, L.A.’s SKID ROW PIANIST

Tony Mostrom·March 15, 2022

A one-time prodigy from Hungary, who was composing music at age 5, wowing audiences with his percussive piano playing in his teens and being called the second coming of Mozart and Liszt, Ervin Nyiregyhazi, ended his days as a denizen...

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LEADERS OF THE PACK: THE ‘GIRL GROUP’-PUNK CONNECTION

Louis Jordan·March 14, 2022

Is there a link between the Ramones and the Ronettes? The Stooges and the New York Dolls and the Shangri-Las? There’s no denying that a rich vein of musical similarities and mutual fandom existed between these two camps. Louis Jordan...

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KEROUAC: ON THE VERGE OF FAME

Paul Maher, Jr·March 10, 2022

After hand-delivering the final manuscript of On the Road to Viking Press in Jan. 1957, Jack Kerouac spent two drunken weeks in NYC before hopping a freighter to Tangier, to visit and type manuscripts for William S. Burroughs. His mind...

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florida1313 on THE KNACK … AND HOW TO GET IT: AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESCOTT NILESThe Knack had an amazing sound. They were musical geniuses. By Gregg L. Friedman MD
florida1313 on ALL THE RAJ: HOW ‘NORWEGIAN WOOD’ UNLEASHED THE ‘INDIAN INVASION’I really miss the great musical groups of the 1960's. By Gregg L. Friedman MD
wmsagittarius on WE NEVER LEARN: GUNK PUNK IN THE 1990SNirvana were really great - never liked any other 'grunge' bands, only later liked some Mudhoney - though i did own a flannel shirt, but

Jack Kerouac based his muse/lover “Mardou Fox” in The Subterraneans on Alene Lee, a mixed race (Black/Cherokee) bohemian writer and intellectual who was a part of the NYC Beat circle of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lucien Carr. Despite her intimate connection to these writers, the real Alene Lee is nowhere to be found in most accounts and biographies—partly due to her own reticence to speak. Erika Blair did some digging and presents a more rounded portrait of this fascinating woman. Read more!

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SAM CUTLER: LIFE WITH THE STONES, THE DEAD & OTHER WONDERFUL REPROBATES

ALL THE RAJ: HOW ‘NORWEGIAN WOOD’ UNLEASHED THE ‘INDIAN INVASION’

THE KNACK … AND HOW TO GET IT: AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESCOTT NILES

POLY STYRENE: BREAKING DOWN THE BONDAGE

WE NEVER LEARN: GUNK PUNK IN THE 1990S

WALT WHITMAN: THE FIRST AMERICAN PUNK POET?

RAYMOND CHANDLER: THE PRIVATE EYE AS L.A. POET

ALEX COX: THE RETURN OF WALKER

BELIEVE IT: MARCIA RESNICK’S LENS ON NYC

BREAKIN’ THE LEVER OFF WITH HASIL ADKINS

WHY BARBRA STREISAND MATTERS

THE FALL AND RISE OF ERVIN NYIREGYHAZI, L.A.’s SKID ROW PIANIST

LEADERS OF THE PACK: THE ‘GIRL GROUP’-PUNK CONNECTION

KEROUAC: ON THE VERGE OF FAME

SAM CUTLER: LIFE WITH THE STONES, THE DEAD & OTHER WONDERFUL REPROBATES

ALL THE RAJ: HOW ‘NORWEGIAN WOOD’ UNLEASHED THE ‘INDIAN INVASION’

THE KNACK … AND HOW TO GET IT: AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESCOTT NILES

POLY STYRENE: BREAKING DOWN THE BONDAGE

WE NEVER LEARN: GUNK PUNK IN THE 1990S