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THE MYSTERIOUS BARD: PETE BROWN’S JOURNEY FROM THE BEATS TO CREAM

John KruthJanuary 20, 2022

Before Beatlemania and the British Invasion, Pete Brown was one of the UK’s few professional poets who made a living performing verse, alongside Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. From there, he toured with a backing band t...

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FROM BIBA TO HULA: DESIGNER BARBARA HULANICKI STILL COOL AT 85

Sandra SchulmanJanuary 19, 2022

Barbara Hulanicki began her career in clothing as a fashion illustrator and photographer in the late 1950s. By the 1960s, she was designing threads for the likes of Twiggy, Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull and, later, David Bowie and selling them...

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PHOTOGRAPHER ALLAN TANNENBAUM: ON THE SOHO NEWS BEAT AND ELSEWHERE

Gregory DaurerJanuary 18, 2022

Allan Tannenbaum sits atop a photographic archive the size of the Matterhorn (see https://www.sohoblues.com/), a reflection of his extraordinarily varied career. The New Jersey native made his name as the staff photographer for the SoHo Week...

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ALI: JUST SAYING THE NAME LIGHTS UP A ROOM

Alan BisbortJanuary 17, 2022

It’s fitting that today is not only Martin Luther King Jr. Day but also the 80th anniversary of the birth of Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. (after 1964, known as Muhammad Ali). Either way, this is a great day. Both men could lay claim to being...

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R.I.P EVE BABITZ: THE QUINTESSENTIAL L.A. WOMAN

Ingrid Marie JensenJanuary 13, 2022

When Eve Babitz died on December 17, the light dimmed a bit in Los Angeles, the city she loved and came to completely embody. As it turns out, her friend and mentor Joan Didion outlived her by only one week. Like Didion, Eve Babitz was such a pu...

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RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK: A TORTURED LOVE AFFAIR WITH ROCK ‘N’ ROLL

John KruthJanuary 12, 2022

Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the blind jazz visionary, inspired a who’s who of rock music, including Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart, Jethro Tull, Eric Burdon & the Animals, Tim Buckley and Quicksilver Messenger Se...

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INSIDE THE WINDMILL WITH PHOTOGRAPHER LOU SMITH

Ingrid Marie JensenJanuary 11, 2022

The videos and photographs of Lou Smith have been tearing up YouTube and Instagram in recent years, launching the careers of many young rock ‘n’ roll artists out of the U.K.—his epicenter being The Windmill Brixton, a grotty but loveable club wh...

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TOMORROW WITH TOM SNYDER: A RECONSIDERATION

Alan BisbortJanuary 10, 2022

During the punk era, Tom Snyder carved out a post-midnight corner of the TV landscape with his show, Tomorrow. After staggering in from the bar or the club, you could switch it on and unwind to the always unpredictable guest list. Though he neve...

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PETER K. SIEGEL: QUIETLY CHANGING AMERICAN MUSIC

Elliott SharpJanuary 6, 2022

A chance encounter on Craigslist between guitarist-composer Elliott Sharp and musical archivist and producer Peter K. Siegel—one time member of the seminal Even Dozen Jug Band and founder of the Nonesuch record label’s Explorer Series—led to the...

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FINNISH AVANT-GARDIST KEUHKOT IS CONTINUING THE UNIVERSE

Jordan MamoneJanuary 5, 2022

Keuhkot is, as Jordan N. Mamone suggests, “the world’s only one-man avant-garde Finnish vaudeville act.” “Keuhkot” is the stage name of Kake Puhuu, born Kalevi Rainio; the word means “Lungs,” and man oh man does this guy own a pair! He is driven...

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THE NEXT ‘NEW DYLAN’

Alan BisbortJanuary 4, 2022

After Bob Dylan went into hiding in upstate New York in 1966, the search was on for the “New Dylan.” Many were given this distinction by the rock press, many others consciously aspired to the title. The following is an attempt to corral the “usu...

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PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF PKM FOR 2021, PART II

PKM EditorDecember 27, 2021

By PKM Editors These are the TOP TEN STORIES for the year on PKM, our toppermost of the poppermost. Enjoy these over the next few days while we prepare some great new stories for the new year. 1. RUTH UNDERWOOD: A MOTHER OF INVENTION A...

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PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF 2021, PART I

PKM EditorDecember 22, 2021

Put another log on the fire, top that tankard of coffee, tea and/or antibiotics, and kick back with Please Kill Me’s Top 20 stories of 2021. We offer here the 20 most visited stories on our website for the past year. It’s an eclectic lineup, an...

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INSIDE CAFÉ SOCIETY: NYC’S FIRST INTEGRATED NIGHTCLUB

Sharon M. HannonDecember 21, 2021

When Café Society opened as a cabaret in Greenwich Village in December 1938, it was one of the few clubs in America where white and black patrons could sit shoulder to shoulder. It also became the launching pad for major jazz and blues starts li...

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Steve Baratta on TOMORROW WITH TOM SNYDER: A RECONSIDERATIONSome of my favorites from the Tomorrow Show: Noel Neill, Jack Larson, and Robert Shayne from The Adventures of Superman with author Gary Grossman who had written the first in depth book on the series; Tom Petty, I don't remember if he performed, he probably did, I remember the interview;
Michael on VAMPIRA ACTRESS MAILA NURMI: THE LAST INTERVIEW – PART 2Wow, fascinating, like others have said, it's like you're right there in the room during the interview. Thanks for this! Must say though, I've read a lot about Jimmy and his interactions with people in Hollywood/New York then, and from what I've read, in the end, he seemed to dismiss
Tommy on CANDY CLARK: THE ACTRESS WHO FELL TO EARTHGreat to read this! I have zero idea why Candy Clark isn't a top tier actor, she's been great in everything she's in (why isn't she in more...). I saw the first released version of MWFTE with a pal of mine (now sadly deceased), and we talked about it for

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THE MYSTERIOUS BARD: PETE BROWN’S JOURNEY FROM THE BEATS TO CREAM

FROM BIBA TO HULA: DESIGNER BARBARA HULANICKI STILL COOL AT 85

PHOTOGRAPHER ALLAN TANNENBAUM: ON THE SOHO NEWS BEAT AND ELSEWHERE

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UTOPIA PARKWAY: THE ENDURING MYSTERY OF JOSEPH CORNELL

RUTH UNDERWOOD: A MOTHER OF INVENTION

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THE MYSTERIOUS BARD: PETE BROWN’S JOURNEY FROM THE BEATS TO CREAM

FROM BIBA TO HULA: DESIGNER BARBARA HULANICKI STILL COOL AT 85

PHOTOGRAPHER ALLAN TANNENBAUM: ON THE SOHO NEWS BEAT AND ELSEWHERE

ALI: JUST SAYING THE NAME LIGHTS UP A ROOM

R.I.P EVE BABITZ: THE QUINTESSENTIAL L.A. WOMAN

RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK: A TORTURED LOVE AFFAIR WITH ROCK ‘N’ ROLL

INSIDE THE WINDMILL WITH PHOTOGRAPHER LOU SMITH

TOMORROW WITH TOM SNYDER: A RECONSIDERATION

PETER K. SIEGEL: QUIETLY CHANGING AMERICAN MUSIC

FINNISH AVANT-GARDIST KEUHKOT IS CONTINUING THE UNIVERSE

THE NEXT ‘NEW DYLAN’

PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF PKM FOR 2021, PART II

PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF 2021, PART I

INSIDE CAFÉ SOCIETY: NYC’S FIRST INTEGRATED NIGHTCLUB

THE MYSTERIOUS BARD: PETE BROWN’S JOURNEY FROM THE BEATS TO CREAM

FROM BIBA TO HULA: DESIGNER BARBARA HULANICKI STILL COOL AT 85

PHOTOGRAPHER ALLAN TANNENBAUM: ON THE SOHO NEWS BEAT AND ELSEWHERE

ALI: JUST SAYING THE NAME LIGHTS UP A ROOM

R.I.P EVE BABITZ: THE QUINTESSENTIAL L.A. WOMAN