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MISS PAMELA: BEATLEMANIAC

Pamela Des BarresMay 13, 2021

The Beatles had no greater fan than a 14-year-old from Reseda, California, named Pam Miller. Young Pam was so smitten, she invented weird rituals to gauge her fanaticism, wallpapered her room with Beatle posters, kept a photo of Paul by her bedside a...

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MILES COPELAND: HIS LIFE IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS

Eric DavidsonMay 12, 2021

Miles Copeland III was already a veteran music promoter and manager when the punk scene exploded in London. With an office in the same building as Malcolm McLaren, he found himself in a position to sign and/or promote a number of the bands, including...

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UNSANE: RENOWNED POWER TRIO GET A BELATED DEBUT

Jordan MamoneMay 11, 2021

Unsane, the noise-rock power trio, created music straight out of the abyss of NYC in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The city was in the last throes of decay before Giuliani’s gentrifying years when Unsane recorded a debut album, Improvised Munitions...

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THE ORIGINAL GANGSTA: LEAD BELLY AND HIS LEGACY

John KruthMay 10, 2021

Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, was a folk-blues giant whose music and persona transformed American culture. He sang what he lived (poverty, prison, violence) in songs like ‘Gallow’s Pole’ and ‘Black Betty,’ but he also composed standar...

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RELIEF AND RELEASE: REVISITING WENDY O. WILLIAMS & THE PLASMATICS

Adam GandersonMay 6, 2021

The Plasmatics, fronted by the unmatchable Wendy O. Williams, may have been the most misunderstood rock ‘n’ roll band ever. Conceived as all of the following: performance art, social comment, consumer culture satirists, and rock ‘n’ roll band; the Pl...

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OSSIE CLARK: THE KING OF KING’S ROAD

Ingrid JensenMay 5, 2021

When London was at its swinging-est, designer Ossie Clark (1942-1996) was the cock of the walk along King’s Road. Inspired by Nijinsky, Clark was among the first fashion designer to carry himself like a pop star and his clients were of that same mili...

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PETER SINFIELD: BRINGING WORDS TO KING CRIMSON’S COURT

John PietaroMay 4, 2021

King Crimson’s instrumental juggernaut was, in the first years of its existence, given balance by the band’s talented lyricist, Peter Sinfield. Even so, the poet, musician and producer (who later wrote lyrics for Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Procol Ha...

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CREATION STORIES: ALAN MCGEE’S LIFE, LABEL, LEGACY COMES TO A THEATER NEAR YOU

Amy HabenMay 3, 2021

Glaswegian Alan McGee was the embodiment of the D.I.Y. spirit of the 1980s and 1990s, bringing Oasis, Primal Scream, Jesus and Mary Chain and the Libertines to the world’s attention through his Creation Records and as a band manager. A charming racon...

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SAM COOKE: EPITOME OF COOL

Benito VilaApril 29, 2021

Sam Cooke is back in the spotlight with the release One Night in Miami, a feature film set during in the wake of Cassius Clay’s victory over Sonny Liston. That heavyweight fight brought Cooke together with Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Clay, on the eve o...

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HEARTBREAKERS: THUNDERS VS. PETTY; OR, WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Roxanne FontanaApril 28, 2021

Johnny Thunders and Tom Petty would seem to have little in common other than the names of their bands. However, a recent Facebook debate about the origin of that name pulled singer songwriter Roxanne Fontana back into her own past, and her personal e...

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JACK KEROUAC: BASKING IN THE GOLDEN ETERNITY

Catherine de LeonApril 27, 2021

By the time Jack Kerouac died at 47 in 1969, he’d exiled himself from the 1960s youth culture he’d partly inspired with the likes of On the Road and The Dharma Bums. Bloated by booze and reactionary politics, he bore little resemblance to that matine...

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SCAT RECORDS REBORN: CLEVELAND ROCKS AGAIN

Eric DavidsonApril 26, 2021

Cleveland’s Scat Records, brainchild of Robert Griffin, set a high bar for indie labels in the Midwest, especially after he introduced Guided By Voices to the world in the 1990s. Even before that, Griffin’s 1980s’ bands, the Dark, Prisonshake and Spi...

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THE ZONE IN BETWEEN: 1.5 – A HIDDEN ROCK & ROLL GENRE-PART TWO

Ben Merlis and Daniel WeizmannApril 23, 2021

In the second and third installments, presented here together, Ben Merlis and Daniel Weizmann track how the genre hidden between punk and hardcore smashed through the suburbs and spread across North America. And then how it was shoved out of the way ...

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DAVID AMRAM: ON KEROUAC, GINSBERG, MINGUS, SPIRIT AND FAMILY

Noah LekasApril 22, 2021

Composer David Amram, now 90, has worked with some of the jazz greats, including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Monk, Gillespie and Mingus but his connection with writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg has also helped keep the Beat flame burning. Amram...

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Jan Collins on ERIC ANDERSEN: BEAT SENSIBILITY IN A FOLKSINGER CROWDThat was really interesting! I had a huge crush on him in the 60's, but didn't get to see him play till maybe the late 70's. He hard Artie Figaro from the Fabulous Rhinestones playing with him. I'd met Artie before, so i got to meet Anderson who was thoroughly
Tony Mostrom on THE ORIGINAL GANGSTA: LEAD BELLY AND HIS LEGACYIt's really amazing to me how underrated he is by blues connoisseurs...makes no sense at all. Unless there's a widespread prejudice against the 12-string guitar.
Meagan on MISS PAMELA: BLAME IT ON ELVIS, DION AND THE RAINBOW ROCKERSMiss Pamela you are a treasure Doll. In the Indie Alt movement in the late 80's and early 90's in Berkeley my bestie and I listened to live music, live bands every weekend. It was the most joyous time of my life. I wasn't looking for a rocker to capture

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MISS PAMELA: BEATLEMANIAC

MILES COPELAND: HIS LIFE IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS

UNSANE: RENOWNED POWER TRIO GET A BELATED DEBUT

THE ORIGINAL GANGSTA: LEAD BELLY AND HIS LEGACY

RELIEF AND RELEASE: REVISITING WENDY O. WILLIAMS & THE PLASMATICS

OSSIE CLARK: THE KING OF KING’S ROAD

PETER SINFIELD: BRINGING WORDS TO KING CRIMSON’S COURT

CREATION STORIES: ALAN MCGEE’S LIFE, LABEL, LEGACY COMES TO A THEATER NEAR YOU

SAM COOKE: EPITOME OF COOL

HEARTBREAKERS: THUNDERS VS. PETTY; OR, WHAT’S IN A NAME?

JACK KEROUAC: BASKING IN THE GOLDEN ETERNITY

SCAT RECORDS REBORN: CLEVELAND ROCKS AGAIN

THE ZONE IN BETWEEN: 1.5 – A HIDDEN ROCK & ROLL GENRE-PART TWO

DAVID AMRAM: ON KEROUAC, GINSBERG, MINGUS, SPIRIT AND FAMILY

MISS PAMELA: BEATLEMANIAC

MILES COPELAND: HIS LIFE IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS

UNSANE: RENOWNED POWER TRIO GET A BELATED DEBUT

THE ORIGINAL GANGSTA: LEAD BELLY AND HIS LEGACY

RELIEF AND RELEASE: REVISITING WENDY O. WILLIAMS & THE PLASMATICS