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BLOOD FEAST: THE STOMACH-TURNING CINEMA OF HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS

Tony MostromOctober 28, 2020

A former English teacher and mail-order salesman from Detroit named Herschell Gordon Lewis saw an exploitable niche in the film industry and, starting in 1963, with Blood Feast, he moved on it like a bitch: gore, gore, and more gore. He didn’t shut t...

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POISON IVY OF THE CRAMPS: UNCROWNED QUEEN OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL

Ingrid JensenOctober 27, 2020

Poison Ivy Rorschach, lead guitarist, songwriter, arranger, producer and sometime vocalist of one of the greatest bands in the universe, the Cramps, which she co-founded with her lifetime partner Lux Interior (RIP), has yet to get her crown. Well, PK...

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WILLIAM GREFE’: MASTER OF GRINDHOUSE CINEMA

Anthony PetkovichOctober 26, 2020

Florida cult-film director William Grefe’ ('Gruh-fay') turned low-budget filmmaking into a sort of folk art in the ‘60s and ‘70s, using man-eating gators, deadly snakes, killer sharks (pre-Jaws), blood & gore, car/boat crashes galore, not to ment...

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MY BEST BUDDY NICK TOSCHES

Austin BrooknerOctober 22, 2020

Songwriter and musician Austin Brookner met writer Nick Tosches in 2008. The connection was Tosches’ words—both on the printed page, which Brookner had already read and been moved by, and some lyrics he’d posted on the Internet in search of a songwri...

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IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY: THE ORIGINAL LINDA LAFLAMME REMEMBERS

Richie UnterbergerOctober 21, 2020

It’s A Beautiful Day, with their soaring, unforgettable “White Bird,” were an anomaly among bands of the San Francisco psychedelic scene of the late 1960s. With David LaFlamme’s violin as lead instrument, and the keyboards of Linda LaFlamme (now Nesk...

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IN THE LIMELIGHT: THE VISUAL ECSTASY OF NYC NIGHTLIFE IN THE ‘90S

Cree McCreeOctober 20, 2020

Steve Eichner was the photo king of NYC mega-clubs. He is also a chameleon who moved seamlessly through the multiverse of colliding worlds that was New York City nightlife in the 1990s. Cree McCree talked with the photographer about his career and a ...

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TULI KUPFERBERG: THE RIGHT-NOW ART AND WORDS OF A FUG

Benito VilaOctober 19, 2020

By the time Tuli Kupferberg formed the Fugs with Ed Sanders in 1964, he was already a longtime presence in New York’s downtown counterculture. He’d published poems, essays, pamphlets and books, and formed, with Sylvia Topp, his own publishing imprint...

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BETTYE LAVETTE HAS HER OWN HELL TO RAISE!

Michael ShelleyOctober 15, 2020

With her powerful voice and magnetic personality, Bettye LaVette has had at least six different musical careers (and counting). She cut her first R & B singles as a teen for Atlantic, toured with Clyde McPhatter, Ben E. King, James Brown, Otis Re...

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‘LIKE PUNK NEVER HAPPENED’: THE LEGACY OF THE NEW ROMANTICS AND ‘80S U.K. POP

David ChiuOctober 14, 2020

Sweet Dreams, a new oral history by British journalist Dylan Jones, charts the musical about-face in the UK immediately after punk had run its course through the 1980s, and how that synth-based, fashion-conscious wave swept over the U.S. via MTV. Ban...

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MALCOLM MCLAREN: JEWISH MANAGER AS PROFESSIONAL TROUBLEMAKER

Gary LucasOctober 13, 2020

A new doorstopper-sized (900+ pages) biography of Malcolm McLaren by Paul Gorman got musician Gary Lucas thinking about one part of the former Sex Pistol/Bow Wow Wow impresario’s life that is often overlooked in all the stories: his Jewish roots. Luc...

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‘PUB ROCK’ WAS MORE THAN A LABEL

Adam GandersonOctober 12, 2020

Wilko Johnson (Dr. Feelgood) and Dave Tice (Buffalo, Count Bishops) talk to PKM and give us the scoop on the Pub Rock scene. Before punk arrived in London, a revival of basic, uncomplicated rock & roll, infused with R & B, had already been pa...

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I FOUGHT THE LAW: FROM SONNY CURTIS TO THE CLASH

Scott SchinderOctober 8, 2020

Sonny Curtis threw down a musical gauntlet known as “I Fought The Law” in 1958 and a legion of rock ‘n’ rollers have picked it up since, from the Bobby Fuller Four, who had a hit single with it in 1965, to the Clash, Roy Orbison, Steve Earle and even...

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NICO ICON AND THE BOHEMIAN, OR, HOW TO WALK A WOLF THROUGH PARIS

Gary LippmanOctober 7, 2020

Carlos De Maldonado-Bostock was identified as a “bohemian” in the credits of the documentary film Nico Icon (1995), directed by Susanne Ofteringer. A friend of the German-born model, singer, Velvet Underground member, solo recording artist and icon, ...

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GARY LACHMAN (NEE VALENTINE): A NEW YORK ROCKER SAILS INTO THE MYSTIC

Zack KoppOctober 6, 2020

Who would have thought that a former bass player for Blondie would transform himself into one of the world’s authorities on “the influence of the occult and esoteric thought on mainstream Western culture.” Indeed, this is the story of Gary Lachman (n...

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Dion on THE LONESOME DEATH OF DANNY RAPP: THE FRONT MAN FOR DANNY & THE JUNIORSIt’s funny learning about this guy. When I was 13 years old, as a kid growing up in the 90’s I was obsessed with 1950’s music. I recall saying I used to be Danny Rapp, and I learned he died the year I was born. I had problems with depression,

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BLOOD FEAST: THE STOMACH-TURNING CINEMA OF HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS

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BLOOD FEAST: THE STOMACH-TURNING CINEMA OF HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS

POISON IVY OF THE CRAMPS: UNCROWNED QUEEN OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL

WILLIAM GREFE’: MASTER OF GRINDHOUSE CINEMA

MY BEST BUDDY NICK TOSCHES

IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY: THE ORIGINAL LINDA LAFLAMME REMEMBERS

IN THE LIMELIGHT: THE VISUAL ECSTASY OF NYC NIGHTLIFE IN THE ‘90S

TULI KUPFERBERG: THE RIGHT-NOW ART AND WORDS OF A FUG

BETTYE LAVETTE HAS HER OWN HELL TO RAISE!

‘LIKE PUNK NEVER HAPPENED’: THE LEGACY OF THE NEW ROMANTICS AND ‘80S U.K. POP

MALCOLM MCLAREN: JEWISH MANAGER AS PROFESSIONAL TROUBLEMAKER

‘PUB ROCK’ WAS MORE THAN A LABEL

I FOUGHT THE LAW: FROM SONNY CURTIS TO THE CLASH

NICO ICON AND THE BOHEMIAN, OR, HOW TO WALK A WOLF THROUGH PARIS

GARY LACHMAN (NEE VALENTINE): A NEW YORK ROCKER SAILS INTO THE MYSTIC

BLOOD FEAST: THE STOMACH-TURNING CINEMA OF HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS

POISON IVY OF THE CRAMPS: UNCROWNED QUEEN OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL

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MY BEST BUDDY NICK TOSCHES

IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY: THE ORIGINAL LINDA LAFLAMME REMEMBERS