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SAN FRANCISCO: A HISTORY IN ROCK AND ROLL

Alan BisbortJuly 3, 2021

Mike Katz and Crispin Kott, self-described “rock and roll soulmates,” have done it again. With the recently published Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area, they’ve captured the magical city’s musical legacy with the same tir...

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REMEMBERING PUNK, THE MAGAZINE, MUSIC, MOMENT IN TIME

Legs McNeilJune 14, 2021

Five years after the punk wave had washed over New York and London, Legs McNeil looked back in anger and awe at what it had wrought. In this story from his archive—a version of which was published in High Times in 1982—Legs explains the how, when and...

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SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY: WHY MARIANNE FAITHFULL MATTERS

Sharon M. HannonJune 10, 2021

Marianne Faithfull has had a long, fascinating career since her days as the ‘It Girl’ of the Swingin’ London scene in the 1960s. Indeed, her best and far more interesting work has been done since those sometimes scandalous days. Tanya Pearson, founde...

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IRA ROBBINS: TROUSER PRESS, LASTING IMPACT & LIFE THEREAFTER

Richie UnterbergerJune 9, 2021

Ira Robbins began publishing Trouser Press in 1974 for all the right reasons: love of music on the margins, Anglophilia, fun. That he and co-founders Dave Schulps and Karen Rose didn’t know what they were doing was all the more reason to do it. In th...

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LOOKING WEST WITH LARRY MCMURTRY

Benito VilaJune 8, 2021

The writer and bookseller Larry McMurtry, who died earlier this year at 84, was a Texas native best known for film adaptations of his novels The Last Picture Show, Horseman, Pass By (Hud), Terms of Endearment and Lonesome Dove. PKM’s Benito Vila, in ...

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DAVID GREENBERGER: BEYOND DUPLEX PLANET

Alan BisbortJune 7, 2021

What began in 1979 for David Greenberger as a D.I.Y. newsletter for the residents at a Boston nursing home became, over the decades, an international oasis called Duplex Planet. Intelligent life on this planet includes Robyn Hitchcock, Dave Alvin, XT...

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NILS LOFGREN: ROCK’S MOST VALUABLE PLAYER

Parke PuterbaughJune 3, 2021

Nils Lofgren has been both a bandleader and a team player, and is equally accomplished in both roles. He has fronted his own band, Grin, and another throughout his 40-year solo career, but he has also been a valued member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Str...

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LOU REED AND VACLAV HAVEL, 1990: WHEN THE VU FUELED THE VELVET REVOLUTION

Ingrid JensenJune 2, 2021

Lou Reed visited Czechoslovakia in 1990, months after the country was freed from Soviet rule. The writer and dissident Václav Havel was, by then, the country's president and Frank Zappa its “Special Ambassador to the West on Trade, Culture and Touris...

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VONG CO: GUITAR SOUNDS FROM VIETNAM TO THE U.S.

Elliott SharpJune 1, 2021

After the Vietnam War, refugees from Southeast Asia began making their way to the U.S. These new citizens brought their cultures, of course, which cross-pollinated with American influences but retained distinctive aspects of their pasts, including mu...

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BORDER RADIO: THE LONG RIDE OF AN L.A. CULT CLASSIC

Kurt VossMay 31, 2021

Director Kurt Voss (Down and Out with The Dolls, Ghost on the Highway) got his start after film school with Border Radio, co-written/co-directed with Allison Anders and Dean Lent, and starring Chris D. (Desjardins), John Doe, Luana Anders and Dave Al...

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SOUNDMAN CONFIDENTIAL: FRANK X. GALLAGHER ON TALKING HEADS, RAMONES, PLASMATICS AND MORE

Gregory DaurerMay 27, 2021

Frank X. Gallagher is best known as a sound engineer for the likes of Talking Heads, B-52s, Buddy Guy and many others, but he’s also been a record producer, band manager, roadie, road manager, booker and audio engineer at Irving Plaza and a chef duri...

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VIVIAN STANSHALL: BEYOND THE BONZO DOG BAND

Gary LucasMay 26, 2021

Vivian Stanshall was the strikingly eccentric ringleader of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, often described as the UK’s version of the Mothers of Invention. Affecting the manner of an aristocrat, Viv actually hailed from London’s East End, and his kindre...

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LARRY FLYNT FOR PRESIDENT: NADIA SZOLD’S NEW DOCUMENTARY

Zack KoppMay 25, 2021

Nadia Szold’s documentary Larry Flynt for President was scheduled to have its premiere last year. But COVID put the kibosh on that. In the interim, the subject of the film, free speech crusader and Hustler Magazine founder Larry Flynt, died on Feb. 1...

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AMERICAN MASSACRE: TULSA 1921

Alan BisbortMay 24, 2021

One hundred years ago, the deadliest white-on-black crime in U.S. history took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Not only were hundreds killed in mob violence, but one of the most prosperous Black neighborhoods in America was obliterated, and thousands more ...

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The Plasmatics, fronted by the unmatchable Wendy O. Williams, may have been the most misunderstood rock ‘n’ roll band ever. Conceived as all of the following: performance art, social comment, consumer culture satirists, and rock ‘n’ roll band; the Plasmatics were impossible to categorize, falling somewhere between punk rock and Kiss/Alice Cooper (both bands were fans), their shows were a legendary as they were terrifying, featuring chainsaws, hammers, exploding cars and TV sets. PKM’s Adam Ganderson speaks with former ‘Matics Wes Beech and Richie Stotts and revisits the legacy of W.O.W. Read more!

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brian p on MARATHON LENS: PHOTOGRAPHER STEVE RAPPORT ON JOE STRUMMER, STYLE COUNCIL, LITTLE RICHARD AND MOREWay off the mark about the content of The Clash and Specials songs.

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SAN FRANCISCO: A HISTORY IN ROCK AND ROLL

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SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY: WHY MARIANNE FAITHFULL MATTERS

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DAVID GREENBERGER: BEYOND DUPLEX PLANET

NILS LOFGREN: ROCK’S MOST VALUABLE PLAYER

LOU REED AND VACLAV HAVEL, 1990: WHEN THE VU FUELED THE VELVET REVOLUTION

VONG CO: GUITAR SOUNDS FROM VIETNAM TO THE U.S.

BORDER RADIO: THE LONG RIDE OF AN L.A. CULT CLASSIC

SOUNDMAN CONFIDENTIAL: FRANK X. GALLAGHER ON TALKING HEADS, RAMONES, PLASMATICS AND MORE

VIVIAN STANSHALL: BEYOND THE BONZO DOG BAND

LARRY FLYNT FOR PRESIDENT: NADIA SZOLD’S NEW DOCUMENTARY

AMERICAN MASSACRE: TULSA 1921

SAN FRANCISCO: A HISTORY IN ROCK AND ROLL

REMEMBERING PUNK, THE MAGAZINE, MUSIC, MOMENT IN TIME

SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY: WHY MARIANNE FAITHFULL MATTERS

IRA ROBBINS: TROUSER PRESS, LASTING IMPACT & LIFE THEREAFTER

LOOKING WEST WITH LARRY MCMURTRY