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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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JIMI HENDRIX IN MAUI: GOING FAR BEYOND RAINBOW BRIDGE

Richie UnterbergerJanuary 4, 2021

We can't think of any better person to ring in the new year at PKM than Jimi Hendrix. A new documentary investigates the Hawaiian concert that became Rainbow Bridge, and corrects a misperception that Hendrix was losing his creative direction by being...

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PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF 2020, PART II

PKM EditorDecember 30, 2020

Keep that tankard of coffee warm because here’s another bracing batch of 2020’s top stories on Please Kill Me. These include features and interviews on the Cramps front man Lux Interior; the peerless bassist, Gail Ann Dorsey (who played for years wit...

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PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF 2020, PART I

PKM EditorDecember 28, 2020

Put another log on the fire, top that tankard of coffee, and kick back with Please Kill Me’s Top stories of 2020…starring Poison Ivy and Lux Interior, united again in a tandem of stories by Ingrid Jensen; the tough-talking Carol Kaye, bassist extraor...

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FOXY LADY: HONORING PAM GRIER

Mark JacobsonDecember 24, 2020

Originally written in 1975, at the height of the so-called “Blaxploitation-era”, this New York Magazine piece was recently dusted off by Mark Jacobson for PKM. It is offered here as a lasting tribute to Pam Grier, a ‘singular star of a singular time’...

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FOUR DEAD IN OHIO: GRAPHIC NOVELIST DERF BACKDERF REVISITS HIS LOCAL HISTORY

Eric DavidsonDecember 23, 2020

Derf Backderf, the Cleveland-based artist best known (until now) for his long-running strip “The City” and his graphic novel My Friend Dahmer, has created a masterpiece of historical cartooning in Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio. Though a boy when the ...

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TIGHTEN UP: ARCHIE BELL TAPS INTO A TIMELESS GROOVE

Scott SchinderDecember 22, 2020

Like a much-needed vaccine of good-time dance music during the darkest days of 1968, Archie Bell's "Tighten Up" shot out of Houston like a NASA rocket. America said, 'Houston, we have no problems now because we got 'Tighten Up!'. More than half a cen...

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FRANK ZAPPA: ALEX WINTER’S NEW FILM CAPTURES HIS GENIUS

David KonowDecember 21, 2020

Today (Dec. 21, the first official day of winter) would have been Frank Zappa’s 80th birthday. Given how his music continues to attract new generations and the prescience of his social commentary, it’s hard to believe he has been gone for 27 years. H...

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daniel danzeris on THE DEATH OF SGT. CARTERhere in 2021, the best remendy for the virous covid-19 could be Frank Suttons chacter on Gomer Pyle ,still some of the best laughs, try it....out
sporadic -Z on DON VAN VLIET AND FRANK ZAPPA: TWO PEAS IN A MISSHAPEN PODfrank is pretentious dross. the ribs were burnt. the Captain was the real thing.
Tony Mostrom on DON VAN VLIET AND FRANK ZAPPA: TWO PEAS IN A MISSHAPEN PODGreat piece ! I once asked Beefheart if he was putting out a new record ( this was in 1980 or so ) and he dropped his cigarette, stepped on it and said, "Just put out a new cigarette!"

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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

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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

JIMI HENDRIX IN MAUI: GOING FAR BEYOND RAINBOW BRIDGE

PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF 2020, PART II

PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF 2020, PART I

FOXY LADY: HONORING PAM GRIER

FOUR DEAD IN OHIO: GRAPHIC NOVELIST DERF BACKDERF REVISITS HIS LOCAL HISTORY

TIGHTEN UP: ARCHIE BELL TAPS INTO A TIMELESS GROOVE

FRANK ZAPPA: ALEX WINTER’S NEW FILM CAPTURES HIS GENIUS

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