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OUT TO SEA WITH THE OUTLAW COUNTRY CRUISE

Larry Ratso SlomanMarch 30, 2020

In our collective younger and more innocent days of three months ago, the cruise industry was a going concern. Despite his lifelong avoidance of cruising, Larry “Ratso” Sloman could not resist stowing away, with his wife, on the most recent Outlaw Co...

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CHIP TAYLOR: THE HAPPY GAMBLER

Michael ShelleyMarch 26, 2020

Chip Taylor followed an unorthodox path to late-career musical success. Though born and raised in tony Westchester County, he began his career in his late teens by writing country music hits for the likes of Chet Atkins, then turned his hand to rock ...

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THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW #1: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO

Billy HoughMarch 25, 2020

Billy Hough tackles 1967’s “Velvet Underground & Nico” in 3 minutes https://youtu.be/b3o2glfu1do...

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FREDERICK WISEMAN: THE DIRECTOR WHO MAKES THE ORDINARY EXTRAORDINARY

Benito VilaMarch 25, 2020

At age 90, Frederick Wiseman is one of those living American masters who would, in a better world, need no introduction. And yet, as a pioneer of documentary filmmaking, he has often worked on the margins, with small crews and on non-sexy projects th...

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HIS LIPS ARE SEALED: THE DEATH OF SONNY FRANZESE, NEW YORK’S LAST OLD SCHOOL MOBSTER

Mark JacobsonMarch 24, 2020

When Sonny Franzese died last month at age 103, he was the last living remnant of the New York Mafia from its heyday. A feared enforcer and dictatorial head of the Profaci (later Colombo) family, he knew where all the bodies were buried, so to speak,...

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5 MUSIC DOCUMENTARIES THAT YOU CAN STREAM RIGHT NOW

Robyn HaleMarch 20, 2020

Looking for something to do while you're stuck inside due to COVID-19? Pick up that remote or put your laptop on your lap, grab a blanket and a snack and tune in to these 5 music documentaries that you can stream right now. Godfathers of Hardcore ...

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JAH WOBBLE: TUNED TO THE POWER OF THE UNIVERSE

Robert GourleyMarch 19, 2020

A school mate of John Lydon’s, Jah Wobble (John Wardle) was still a teenager when he joined Public Image, Ltd., and he learned bass on the fly. Not a huge fan of punk—though he did like the Sex Pistols—Wobble embarked on his musical journey at the pe...

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IN THE STREET WITH NICK TOSCHES (RIP), ROCK SCRIBE, NOVELIST AND MASTER OF ‘STUDYIN’ NOTHIN’

Bob PomeroyMarch 18, 2020

Bob Pomeroy met Nick Tosches on a Manhattan sidewalk bench. Prior to that, Pomeroy had collected, read and reread the writer’s inimitable works, like Hellfire, his biography of Jerry Lee Lewis; Unsung Heroes of Rock ‘n’ Roll; Country: The Biggest Mus...

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FRIED & JUSTIFIED: INSIDE THE POST-PUNK YEARS (1978-98) WITH MICK HOUGHTON

Richie UnterbergerMarch 17, 2020

Mick Houghton came of age as a pop music ‘obsessive’ in the 1960s. By the 1970s, he was a pop music industry insider. His previous books—biographies of Sandy Denny and Elektra’s Jac Holzman—were from a fan/journalist perspective. His new memoir, Frie...

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KATHY VALENTINE: ALL SHE EVER WANTED

Amy HabenMarch 16, 2020

Kathy Valentine was born with a rock ‘n’ roll heart, so it was no surprise to find herself playing bass in the Go-Go’s, whose first album Beauty and the Beat (1981) was one of the most successful debuts in pop music history. After the Go-Go’s broke u...

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THE PUZZLING CASE OF PATTI SMITH: GROUNDBREAKER, ‘GODMOTHER OF PUNK’ AND YOUR MOM’S FAVORITE AUTHOR

Billy HoughMarch 12, 2020

Patti Smith has been one of Billy Hough’s “Ride-or-Die” favorites ever since he heard her debut album, Horses. In his inimitable style, Billy muses on and marvels about the poet, playwright, author, musician and icon; he also messes with her current ...

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LAUNCHING WARHOL AND POP ART: WALTER HOPPS AND HIS FERUS GALLERY

Anthony MostromMarch 11, 2020

As we enter a new Roaring Twenties, let’s recall two renegade art dealers who kickstarted modern art back in the Swinging Sixties: Walter Hopps and Irving Blum of Ferus, the L.A. gallery that launched Pop Art and the young (guess who?) Andy Warhol in...

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MY OWN PRIVATE ORWELL

Alan BisbortMarch 10, 2020

George Orwell died 70 years ago. It would be hard to find another writer of his generation who had as profound an influence on, and prophetic accuracy about, the world we now inhabit. David Bowie, The Jam, Eurythmics, Radiohead, Dead Kennedys, Subhum...

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KICKING ASH: FRANK SECICH OF BLUE ASH AND DEAD BOYS, REVISITS HIS POWER POP ROOTS

Eric DavidsonMarch 9, 2020

Signed to Mercury the same time as the New York Dolls, Ohio-based Blue Ash was part of a pre-punk wave pushing against the pretentions and bloat of 1970s rock & roll, along with Big Star, the Raspberries, the Records, and Flamin’ Groovies. They r...

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From its waterfront perch in Sausalito, the Trident’s clientele could see the San Francisco skyline and the Golden Gate Bridge. The club/restaurant was “a trippy space ship” whose passengers just happened to be a Who’s Who of rock & roll (the Stones, Quicksilver, Crosby, Garcia, Lesh, Sam Andrew, Peter Stampfel) and Hollywood (Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, Sterling Hayden) and elsewhere (Alan Watts, Sonny Barger, Bill Cosby), not to mention Robin Williams was one of the busboys and the tequila sunrise was invented at the bar. The Fifties became the Sixties at the club, then the Sixties became the Seventies…Benito Vila takes us back, through the words of those who were there. Read more!

Quentin Chip on OUT TO SEA WITH THE OUTLAW COUNTRY CRUISEQuite a line-up I must admit. I've met Lee Perry , Kinky and Kris Kristofferson unfortunately not on the same boat but on separate occasions. All highly intelligent geezers who would be incongruous in the tawdry world of rock 'n' roll but have successfully carved a niche for themselves in
Jan Collins on CHIP TAYLOR: THE HAPPY GAMBLERInteresting he skipped over the Carrie portion of his return to music.....
Dave Brock on THE PUZZLING CASE OF PATTI SMITH: GROUNDBREAKER, ‘GODMOTHER OF PUNK’ AND YOUR MOM’S FAVORITE AUTHORNitpicky, I know, but "Kids Are People Too" was a Sunday morning show, not Saturday. My former uncle (aunt's ex-husband) worked on the show. I got to meet KISS and Patti (amongst many others) and even Gene Simmons was nicer than Patti. She was really nasty to me, my sister,

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LAUNCHING WARHOL AND POP ART: WALTER HOPPS AND HIS FERUS GALLERY

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KICKING ASH: FRANK SECICH OF BLUE ASH AND DEAD BOYS, REVISITS HIS POWER POP ROOTS

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