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The Velvet Underground in 1970: Doug Yule, left, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison and Moe Tucker. (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)

DOUG YULE: THE FORGOTTEN VELVET

Richie UnterbergerOctober 16, 2018

He appeared on more Velvet Underground recordings than John Cale or Nico and yet he is seldom mentioned in documentaries about the band, and was not included in the induction of the VU into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Richie Unterberger...

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EXPERIENCING THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN NEW YORK CITY

Eric DavidsonOctober 15, 2018

A new 'Art & Music Exhibition' re-creates the bohemian rhapsodies that cross-pollinated in downtown Manhattan and shaped everything from the Beats to the punks, all of it seeming to be six degrees of separation from the Velvets I am sure that in...

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STERLING SPEAKS! STERLING MORRISON’S LAST INTERVIEW WITH LEGS MCNEIL, 1995

Legs McNeilOctober 11, 2018

Sterling Morrison (1942-1995) was the guitarist for the Velvet Underground, appearing on all four studio albums that the band made. He left the band in 1971 and moved to Texas to finish graduate school, became both a tugboat captain and a college pro...

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SHOOTING THE BREEZE WITH THELMA AND THE SLEAZE

Amy HabenOctober 10, 2018

LG, the frontwoman of Nashville's Thelma and the Sleaze, talks to PKM about being a 'child of the Nineties', influences, hecklers, and of course... rock n’ roll! “So I was clippin’ coupons, masturbatin’, and watching Family Feud, when there was a kn...

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SHA NA NA & THE ESCAPED BABY-KILLER

Burt KearnsOctober 9, 2018

How guitarist ‘Vinnie Taylor’ came back to life 20 years after dying of a heroin overdose and fooled the cops for four years while allegedly playing in the retro rock & roll band that Jimi Hendrix brought with him to Woodstock by Burt Kearns &am...

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IN THE FAST LANE: A ROCK & ROLL ACTION ADVENTURE!

Amanda SheppardOctober 8, 2018

Australian filmmaker and rock-trash impresario Josh “Sinbad” Collins releases Fags in the Fast Lane, his first film since Pervirella (1997). The cast includes the legendary Kitten Natividad, El Vez, the musical stylings of King Kahn and narration by ...

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Herman's Hermits in 1968. From L-R: Keith Hopwood, Karl Green, Derek Leckenby, frontman Peter Noone, and Barry Whitwam. By NBC Television

PETER NOONE IS THE BIGGEST SEX PISTOLS FAN EVER! AND OTHER STARTLING REVELATIONS FROM THE HEAD HERMIT

Valerie SimadisOctober 4, 2018

The former child TV star was part of the British Invasion that conquered America, chums with Keith Moon, Brian Jones and John Lennon, recorded with Bowie, and still tours and tells tales on his Sirius XM show “Something Good With Peter Noone” In the...

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Syd Barrett with one of his paintings, 1964 by John Gordon

ROCK & ROLL’S WANNABE PICASSOS

Alan BisbortOctober 3, 2018

Bob Dylan, Ronnie Wood and Grace Slick are best known for their music, but they’ve also pursued the visual arts. Here are 10 rockers who dared to share their artwork. In the 1990s, I was hired to write the text for a coffee table book about the arti...

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READ ME: THE LAST WISH OF JOHNNY STRIKE

Zack KoppOctober 2, 2018

Johnny Strike was a San Francisco punk pioneer and leader of the band Crime. A fixture at Mabuhay Gardens who once performed at San Quentin prison dressed in a cop uniform, he was also a prolific author whose work was praised by William S. Burroughs ...

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Iggy Pop, Penn Jilette, Steve Forbert, Teller, and David Bowie, 1985 - Photo by Marc Bryan-Brown

STILL ALIVE ON ARRIVAL: STEVE FORBERT, HONORARY PUNK

Shelagh LittleOctober 1, 2018

In his new memoir, Big City Cat: My Life in Folk Rock, the groundbreaking singer-songwriter Steve Forbert recounts his early days as part of the downtown NYC scene, where he was equally comfortable playing at Folk City and CBGB. He also talks about h...

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THE JOYS OF RENT BOYS AND DRAG QUEENS, THE STOOGES AND BOWIE: A CONVERSATION WITH LEEE BLACK CHILDERS

PKM EditorSeptember 27, 2018

Photographer and scene maker Leee Black Childers on his wild and woolly ride with Iggy, the Stooges, David Bowie, Andy Warhol, Candy Darling, Jackie Curtis, Wayne/Jayne County, underage groupies, leather boys, and in the gay bars and bathhouses of NY...

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Stasi surveillance photo. Credit: SUBstitut Archiv (Berlin)

NEWS FLASH: EAST GERMAN PUNKS TORE DOWN THE BERLIN WALL!

Alan BisbortSeptember 26, 2018

In his incendiary new book Burning Down the Haus, Tim Mohr documents the “secret history of punk rock under the dictator” and inspires hope in the hearts of all the rest of us “Don’t Die In The Waiting Room of the Future.” - Graffiti that began appe...

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JUDGMENT NIGHT: THE SOUNDTRACK THAT BLEW UP POP MUSIC

Darren PaltrowitzSeptember 25, 2018

We take a look at the 1993 film that, for the first time, brought rockers (J. Mascis, Sonic Youth, Living Colour, Teenage Fanclub) together with rap artists (Run D.M.C., Ice-T, Cypress Hill), to create a full studio album. The big-budget action film ...

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THE ‘5TH RAMONE’ SPEAKS!

Michael ShelleySeptember 24, 2018

Ramones Tour Manager Monte A. Melnick on the fights, the insanity, and the passions! The Ramones formed in March of 1974 and broke up in August of 1996 and Monte A. Melnick was a witness to almost every moment of their groundbreaking and influential...

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DOUG YULE: THE FORGOTTEN VELVET

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STERLING SPEAKS! STERLING MORRISON’S LAST INTERVIEW WITH LEGS MCNEIL, 1995

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DOUG YULE: THE FORGOTTEN VELVET

EXPERIENCING THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN NEW YORK CITY

STERLING SPEAKS! STERLING MORRISON’S LAST INTERVIEW WITH LEGS MCNEIL, 1995

SHOOTING THE BREEZE WITH THELMA AND THE SLEAZE

SHA NA NA & THE ESCAPED BABY-KILLER

IN THE FAST LANE: A ROCK & ROLL ACTION ADVENTURE!

PETER NOONE IS THE BIGGEST SEX PISTOLS FAN EVER! AND OTHER STARTLING REVELATIONS FROM THE HEAD HERMIT

ROCK & ROLL’S WANNABE PICASSOS

READ ME: THE LAST WISH OF JOHNNY STRIKE

STILL ALIVE ON ARRIVAL: STEVE FORBERT, HONORARY PUNK

THE JOYS OF RENT BOYS AND DRAG QUEENS, THE STOOGES AND BOWIE: A CONVERSATION WITH LEEE BLACK CHILDERS

NEWS FLASH: EAST GERMAN PUNKS TORE DOWN THE BERLIN WALL!

JUDGMENT NIGHT: THE SOUNDTRACK THAT BLEW UP POP MUSIC

THE ‘5TH RAMONE’ SPEAKS!

DOUG YULE: THE FORGOTTEN VELVET

EXPERIENCING THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN NEW YORK CITY

STERLING SPEAKS! STERLING MORRISON’S LAST INTERVIEW WITH LEGS MCNEIL, 1995