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JOHN TAYLOR: STILL IN THE PLEASURE GROOVE WITH DURAN DURAN

Crispin KottJanuary 27, 2021

John Taylor is the bass guitarist in Duran Duran, a band that stormed out of the New Romantic movement in the early ‘80s with a series of songs, albums and videos now considered classics. Duran Duran will release their 15th studio album this year. Pa...

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RUBBERHEAD: AKRON’S LASTING IMPACT ON CHUCK STATLER, GODFATHER OF MUSIC VIDEO

JP OlsenJanuary 26, 2021

Chuck Statler started his long career in innovative and influential music video by collaborating with his classmates and fellow-pranksters at Kent State University, Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale of Devo. It all began with the landmark DEVO: In t...

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ONSTAGE, BACKSTAGE: PHOTOGRAPHER MICHAEL GRECCO CAPTURED BOSTON’S PUNK AND POST PUNK SCENES

Alan BisbortJanuary 25, 2021

Michael Grecco picked the right time to be in Boston. As an undergrad at BU studying photojournalism, he began exploring the clubs of The Hub with his camera and was soon snapping on assignment from alternative and mainstream press venues. Now a succ...

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MARISKA VERES: BEYOND ‘VENUS’ AND SHOCKING BLUE

John KruthJanuary 21, 2021

One scene in the miniseries The Queen’s Gambit was all it took to put the Dutch rock band Shocking Blue, and the band’s sultry singer, Mariska Veres, back on the media map. You know the scene. The drunken dance-and-crash scene of Beth Harmon (Anya Ta...

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SYLVAIN SYLVAIN: SLEEP BABY DOLL

James MarshallJanuary 20, 2021

Sylvain Sylvain was the secret weapon of the New York Dolls, the diplomat and cheerleader who held the band together and an underrated musician and songwriter. With his death last week, the world of rock ‘n’ roll lost a true Mensch. James Marshall pa...

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LET THE SUNSHINE IN: THE ENDURING MYTHS OF HAIR

Alan BisbortJanuary 19, 2021

Aquarius, the astrological sign, begins tomorrow, Jan. 20, and runs through Feb. 19. It is generally regarded as the most humanitarian zodiac sign, presaging radical change and progress. This aspect of Aquarius was the underpinning of one of the most...

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LABEL CONSCIOUS: EXPLORING ‘LOST’ MUSIC OF THE 1970S

Chris EptingJanuary 18, 2021

One way to gauge the quality of older rock & roll recordings is by the label that released them. Ork Records, Spy Records, Stiff, Radar, ZE, ESP-Disk and on and on were all marks of if not guaranteed rock & roll quality, then at least somethi...

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DON VAN VLIET AND FRANK ZAPPA: TWO PEAS IN A MISSHAPEN POD

Gary LucasJanuary 14, 2021

Guitarist Gary Lucas found himself smack dab in the middle of two of America’s musical geniuses, Don ‘n’ Frank. Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa were boyhood chums whose fates were inextricably linked, for better or worse, richer or poorer, in sickn...

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THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER: THE HOTTEST OF COLD CASES

Tony MostromJanuary 13, 2021

On January 15 1947, the body of a murder victim was found in a weedy, vacant lot in Los Angeles—the severed body of a beautiful young woman named Elizabeth Short, nicknamed the Black Dahlia. Her mutilated corpse has since launched a thousand theories...

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AS NEEDED FOR ANXIETY: RICHARD KERN’S PHOTOGRAPHS OF PHARMACEUTICAL CHIC

SupervertJanuary 12, 2021

A unifying thread weaves through the work of ‘trangressive’ filmmaker and photographer Richard Kern. In this interview with his collaborator Supervert (Who’s Your Death Hero?), Kern describes that theme as “things just aren't as good as they seem.” T...

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LIFE AS A COSMOPOLITAN: GIRLS GONE GO-GO, NYC, 1977-‘82

Jamie K SimsJanuary 11, 2021

Jamie K. Sims studied music composition and dance at UNC, then moved to New York City in 1977, following hard in the heels of boyfriend Chris Stamey, who earlier had heard the siren call of Alex Chilton and Ork Records. Once in New York, she formed a...

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MEET THE BEATLES WITH MILES: AN INTERVIEW BY LEGS MCNEIL

Legs McNeilJanuary 7, 2021

Miles (aka Barry Miles) had a front-row seat to the London underground scene of the 1960s, as a bookseller and gallery co-owner at a time when Beatlemania was morphing into psychedelia. He met and befriended Paul McCartney at his Indica bookstore and...

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GREGORY CORSO: STREET PUNK & BEAT TURNED POET & PLAYWRIGHT

Alan BisbortJanuary 6, 2021

Because he was often seen as a character in one of Kerouac’s writings, Gregory Corso has been given second billing from the main Beat pantheon of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Cassady, Burroughs. A new collection of his plays, published by Tough Poets Press on ...

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ALICE BAG: AN L.A. PUNK LEGEND

Lucretia Tye JasmineJanuary 5, 2021

Alicia Armendariz (aka Alice Bag) is a Los Angeles punk legend, not just for her groundbreaking first band the Bags (featured in Penelope Spheeris’s Decline of Western Civilization), but for her outspokenness, activism, writings, and embodying the D....

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John Battles on MARISKA VERES: BEYOND ‘VENUS’ AND SHOCKING BLUEReally interesting overview of Mariska Veres' career. It's a pity most people only know Shocking Blue for one song (Great tho' it was.), as they were remarkably diverse , pulling from Country , Psych , R'n'B and Eastern influences , to name a few. Veres was still fronting a version
Zarley Jacknisky on DON VAN VLIET AND FRANK ZAPPA: TWO PEAS IN A MISSHAPEN PODWow this was the best thing I've read in a while. Made me wanna crack up and weep at the same time. Gary your a fucking legend man.
John Battles on SYLVAIN SYLVAIN: SLEEP BABY DOLLThis is gutting news , about Sylvain Sylvain's death. I used to promote his solo gigs in Chicago , and we became pretty good friends , though I lost touch with him after The Dolls reformed. It's true , he was , in fact , a real mensch with a

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JOHN TAYLOR: STILL IN THE PLEASURE GROOVE WITH DURAN DURAN

RUBBERHEAD: AKRON’S LASTING IMPACT ON CHUCK STATLER, GODFATHER OF MUSIC VIDEO

ONSTAGE, BACKSTAGE: PHOTOGRAPHER MICHAEL GRECCO CAPTURED BOSTON’S PUNK AND POST PUNK SCENES

MARISKA VERES: BEYOND ‘VENUS’ AND SHOCKING BLUE

SYLVAIN SYLVAIN: SLEEP BABY DOLL

LET THE SUNSHINE IN: THE ENDURING MYTHS OF HAIR

LABEL CONSCIOUS: EXPLORING ‘LOST’ MUSIC OF THE 1970S

DON VAN VLIET AND FRANK ZAPPA: TWO PEAS IN A MISSHAPEN POD

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER: THE HOTTEST OF COLD CASES

AS NEEDED FOR ANXIETY: RICHARD KERN’S PHOTOGRAPHS OF PHARMACEUTICAL CHIC

LIFE AS A COSMOPOLITAN: GIRLS GONE GO-GO, NYC, 1977-‘82

MEET THE BEATLES WITH MILES: AN INTERVIEW BY LEGS MCNEIL

GREGORY CORSO: STREET PUNK & BEAT TURNED POET & PLAYWRIGHT

ALICE BAG: AN L.A. PUNK LEGEND

JOHN TAYLOR: STILL IN THE PLEASURE GROOVE WITH DURAN DURAN

RUBBERHEAD: AKRON’S LASTING IMPACT ON CHUCK STATLER, GODFATHER OF MUSIC VIDEO

ONSTAGE, BACKSTAGE: PHOTOGRAPHER MICHAEL GRECCO CAPTURED BOSTON’S PUNK AND POST PUNK SCENES

MARISKA VERES: BEYOND ‘VENUS’ AND SHOCKING BLUE

SYLVAIN SYLVAIN: SLEEP BABY DOLL