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BLAZING AWAY WITH MARIANNE FAITHFULL: A 1989 FLASHBACK

Cree McCreeAugust 22, 2019

After a harrowing decade of personal and medical travails, Marianne Faithfull staged a remarkable musical comeback with the 1979 release of Broken English. Still battling her demons, Faithfull got fully sober in the mid-1980s and staged a grand perso...

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COMPLIMENTS OF CHICAGO’S STREETS

Peter PaviaAugust 21, 2019

A visually stunning new book details the history, rise and fall of “social athletic clubs” in Chicago, before the gang bangers made a mockery of the concept. More social club than criminal enterprise in the early days, the seeds of future mayhem were...

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LOST AND FOUND: JACKSON C. FRANK

Alan BisbortAugust 20, 2019

Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, Paul Simon, Sandy Denny, Al Stewart and others borrowed a few tunes (and whole dollops of melancholy) from this great songwriter. The life of Jackson C. Frank, who died 20 years ago, unfolded like a remake of the Book of Job,...

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GARY PANTER: LIFE AFTER PUNK & PEE WEE

Eric DavidsonAugust 19, 2019

Raised in Texas, artist Gary Panter moved to L.A. in the late 1970s and made an immediate mark on the L.A. punk scene with his now iconic poster for the Screamers, among many other fliers, posters and comic strips in Slash. But his amazingly varied a...

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DUTCH NUGGETS: ORIGINAL 1960s’ ROCK & ROLL ‘ARTYFACTS’ THAT DEFY TIME

Richie UnterbergerAugust 14, 2019

You’ve heard of the British Invasion, right? Well, ‘the Dutch Invasion’ that followed did not exactly storm the beaches of the USA (outside of hit singles by Shocking Blue, Golden Earring and the Tee Set), but the music produced in the Netherlands by...

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JERRY LEWIS, J.D. SALINGER & THE JEWISH HOLDEN CAULFIELD

Burt KearnsAugust 12, 2019

There were once two men named Jerry: Salinger and Lewis. And one of them wrote a famous novel, Catcher In the Rye, which the other wanted to turn into a movie, starring himself as Holden Caulfield. Burt Kearns explains why J.D. Salinger wouldn’t let ...

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CHARLES MANSON’S SUMMER OF HATE

Anthony MostromAugust 9, 2019

Fifty years ago, an ex-con, wannabe rock star named Charles Manson channeled all the paranoia, fear and hatred hovering around Los Angeles into a murder spree that altered the course of American counterculture, for worse or worse. One thing that's of...

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FRAME OF MIND: 20 YEARS OF THE DC MUSIC SCENE

Sharon M. HannonAugust 8, 2019

When Antonia Tricarico moved from her native Italy to Washington D.C. in 1997, she felt a kinship with the city’s underground music scene, which had roots in the DIY harDCore scene of the 1980s. Having been steeped in the punk scene in Rome, Tricaric...

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BE KIND TO ME: THE MUSIC AND ART OF MICHAEL HURLEY

Gregory DaurerAugust 7, 2019

Michael Hurley could be called the godfather, or grandfather, of ‘freak-folk” but the Oregon-based singer, songwriter, artist and storyteller’s roots go back to his childhood in rural Pennsylvania and early forays into New York City, where he found k...

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HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN: J.G. BALLARD IN THE 1970s

Jeremy ReedAugust 6, 2019

The novelist J.G. Ballard created language so unique that, according to renowned poet and novelist Jeremy Reed, he was like “a tourist from the future whose themes were too far ahead of British fiction for their exhaust trail to be sighted.” Reed off...

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FAKEWOOD MAC: THE UNREAL FLEETWOOD MAC, 1974

Fiona McQuarrieAugust 5, 2019

There are some who'd say the "real" Fleetwood Mac ended when Peter Green left the band for good in 1972, but what happened two years later was something else entirely. It was one of the strangest situations in pop music history--not a single member o...

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MANCHESTER’S UNITED: BUZZCOCKS’ STEVE DIGGLE SPEAKS HIS MIND

Amy HabenAugust 1, 2019

The brainy and witty Buzzcocks guitarist Steve Diggle opens up about the origins of punk in Manchester, the band’s working-class roots, the need to be genuine, his friend and partner, the late Pete Shelley, friendships with Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder,...

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PHIL OCHS: BOUND FOR GLORY

Alan BisbortJuly 31, 2019

A driving force of musical dissent in the 1960s, Phil Ochs (1940-1976) and his musical legacy are ripe for a new audience in the Age of Trump. Though he wrote and passionately sang topical songs (“Talking Vietnam”, “Talking Cuban Crisis,” etc.), many...

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THE BALLAD OF CATHY WAYNE: KILLED ON STAGE IN THE VIETNAM WAR

Burt KearnsJuly 30, 2019

The teenage pop star from Australia ignored the warnings and embarked on a tour of military bases in Vietnam. Things were going well with her "Sweethearts On Parade" tour until one night, 50 years ago, at a U.S. Marine Corps base in Da Nang. Burt Ke...

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Paul Skinupski on COMPLIMENTS OF CHICAGO’S STREETSThat was fascinating , those cards should be in the Smithsonian.
Georganne on GARY PANTER: LIFE AFTER PUNK & PEE WEEAnother wasted opportunity to find out how he thinks, the real mojo that distinguishes him & sets an unreachable bar for his contemporaries. Instead we get the same old about who he knows and what they were like. I was hoping this fascination w celebrity had run its self into
Craig Regala on GARY PANTER: LIFE AFTER PUNK & PEE WEENice work. That just post 60s period is super interesting. I learned most of what I know from Forced Exposure, Curt Schreiber. There's a guy in Columbus that was poking around Jim Shepherds legacy to see if. He could pull a movie out if it. I thibk one of the
Paul Skinupski on MY BOYS: STERLING LORD ON JACK KEROUAC, LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI AND KEN KESEYI'm guessing the Gerald Nicosia interview was pulled for legal reasons. I really enjoyed the article , loads of stuff I didn't know and came back for seconds to find it missing. I bought Memory Babe when it came out , it still stands as the best biography on Ti

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BLAZING AWAY WITH MARIANNE FAITHFULL: A 1989 FLASHBACK

COMPLIMENTS OF CHICAGO’S STREETS

LOST AND FOUND: JACKSON C. FRANK

GARY PANTER: LIFE AFTER PUNK & PEE WEE

DUTCH NUGGETS: ORIGINAL 1960s’ ROCK & ROLL ‘ARTYFACTS’ THAT DEFY TIME

JERRY LEWIS, J.D. SALINGER & THE JEWISH HOLDEN CAULFIELD

CHARLES MANSON’S SUMMER OF HATE

FRAME OF MIND: 20 YEARS OF THE DC MUSIC SCENE

BE KIND TO ME: THE MUSIC AND ART OF MICHAEL HURLEY

HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN: J.G. BALLARD IN THE 1970s

FAKEWOOD MAC: THE UNREAL FLEETWOOD MAC, 1974

MANCHESTER’S UNITED: BUZZCOCKS’ STEVE DIGGLE SPEAKS HIS MIND

PHIL OCHS: BOUND FOR GLORY

THE BALLAD OF CATHY WAYNE: KILLED ON STAGE IN THE VIETNAM WAR

BLAZING AWAY WITH MARIANNE FAITHFULL: A 1989 FLASHBACK

COMPLIMENTS OF CHICAGO’S STREETS

LOST AND FOUND: JACKSON C. FRANK