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KATIE JANE GARSIDE SALES AGAIN

Amanda SheppardAugust 11, 2020

British singer-songwriter, one-time Riot Grrrl, and Daisy Chainsaw and Queenadreena frontwoman, Katie Jane Garside, is back with her new album, Geiger Counter, from her latest project, liar, flower. Amanda Sheppard spoke with her for PKM. Proclaimed...

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HERE’S LOOKING AT HUGH: THE STRANGLERS’ HUGH CORNWELL SPEAKS

Anthony PetkovichAugust 10, 2020

The former guitarist/vocalist of the classic English punk band has, since he left the Stranglers, had a long and wide-ranging solo career as both a musician and writer. Cornwell talks at length about his musical roots, solo projects, friendships with...

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THE PRETTIEST STAR: ANGIE BOWIE-BARNETT CARRIES ON

Lucretia Tye JasmineAugust 6, 2020

She helped make her now-legendary husband David Bowie a star—managed his early career, shaped his Ziggy alter ego, even sewed his costumes—but had enough after 10 years and one child (film director Duncan Jones). When faced with what to do for an enc...

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SLASH RECORDS, OR LET’S HAVE A WAR

Tony MostromAugust 5, 2020

Slash, the indispensable fanzine that charted the Los Angeles punk scene (1977-80), gave birth to a record label that pushed the punk boundaries well into the 1980s, releasing classic recordings by Fear, The Germs, Flesh Eaters, Gun Club and X before...

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SUNSHINE WALKERS: KIMBERLEY REW & LEE CAVE-BERRY

Fiona McQuarrieAugust 4, 2020

After stints in the Soft Boys (with Robyn Hitchcock) and Katrina and the Waves, Kimberley Rew has pursued a solo career and collaborated with bands in his hometown of Cambridge (UK). Lee Cave-Berry has, likewise, played bass with many Cambridge-area ...

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PETER GREEN: THE END OF THE GAME (RIP)

Gary LucasAugust 3, 2020

Peter Green, inheritor of Eric Clapton’s spot in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and co-founder of Fleetwood Mac, was, said B.B. King, ‘the only guitarist who gives me the cold sweats.’ Renowned guitarist Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, et a...

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THE GHASTLY ONE: JIMMY MCDONOUGH TALKS ABOUT ANDY MILLIGAN AND HIS TRANSGRESSIVE CINEMA

Eric DavidsonJuly 30, 2020

Jimmy McDonough is best-known for his exhaustive bios of Neil Young (Shakey), Tammy Wynette (Tragic Country Queen) and Russ Meyer (Big Bosoms and Square Jaws), but his first published book, The Ghastly One, about Andy Milligan, the disturbed auteur o...

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BLOOD NOT SO SIMPLE: CHARLES HARRELSON, WOODY’S DAD

David StewartJuly 29, 2020

Charles Harrelson, father of the actor Woody Harrelson, was a card hustler, a self-proclaimed “hit man” and a convicted murderer of a federal judge. A 10-part podcast about the career of the elder Harrelson, Son of a Hitman, is currently available on...

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THE DAWNING OF AQUARIUS: AN L.A. ARTIST REVISITS THE 1960S

Amy HabenJuly 28, 2020

The Sixties never died, at least not on the palette of Dawn Aquarius. Steeped in the music, lore, visuals, fashions, and vibes of that decade, the 37-year-old Los Angeles artist has been turning heads with her personalized take on that psychedelic ep...

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VIOLENT FEMMES: NO NORMAL BAND

John KruthJuly 27, 2020

Born in the wake of a legendarily disruptive high school performance and culminating in a near riot at Carnegie Hall, Violent Femmes, the folk-rock-punk trio from Milwaukee forged a unique sound out of influences as disparate as rockabilly, Appalachi...

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A NEW YORK CONVERSATION WITH BRIGID BERLIN (RIP)

Gillian McCainJuly 25, 2020

When Brigid Berlin (a.k.a. Brigid Polk) died last Friday, we lost one of the last connections to New York City's 1960s underground film and art scenes. A major star in the universe of Andy Warhol's Factory, and friend and confidante of the artist, Br...

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NIXON VS. KHRUSHCHEV: HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT IN THE KITCHEN, 1959

Alan BisbortJuly 22, 2020

Sixty-one years ago, on July 24, 1959, one of the greatest ever pieces of television propaganda was broadcast in both the U.S. and in the Soviet Union. Both sides in this so-called Cold War felt that they had won an impromptu exchange between Soviet ...

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CHRIS FRANTZ: REMAINS IN LOVE

Richie UnterbergerJuly 22, 2020

The subtitle to Remain in Love, the new memoir by Chris Frantz, is “Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina”. He was the co-founder and drummer for the first named bands, and is the longtime partner of Tina Weymouth, the bassist for both bands. His book is...

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FAMILY GUY: THE LEGACY OF SPALDING GRAY

Benito VilaJuly 21, 2020

When monologist-actor-writer-philosopher Spalding Gray departed this planet in 2004, he left behind timeless works like Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box and many memorable film roles. He also left behind two sensitive and talented sons. Benito ...

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Carol Kaye started as a jazz solo guitarist, working the club scene of 1950s LA, when she was asked to work on some studio tracks for Sam Cooke. Though she loved the bebop jazz scene, Carol was a single mother with three kids and so to the studios she went, eventually switching to bass. She ultimately changed the very sound and role of that instrument in pop music as a member of what drummer Hal Blaine dubbed The Wrecking Crew (but which Carol has called The Clique). By any name, these were the session musicians who shaped some of the biggest hits of the 1960s, after which she went back to playing live gigs and working in movies and television, writing and teaching, which she is still doing in her 80s. Michael Shelley talks with the amazing Carol Kaye for PKM. Read more!

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