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LOU REED AND VACLAV HAVEL, 1990: WHEN THE VU FUELED THE VELVET REVOLUTION

Ingrid Marie Jensen·June 2, 2021

Lou Reed visited Czechoslovakia in 1990, months after the country was freed from Soviet rule. The writer and dissident Václav Havel was, by then, the country’s president and Frank Zappa its “Special Ambassador to the West on Trade, Culture and...

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VONG CO: GUITAR SOUNDS FROM VIETNAM TO THE U.S.

Elliott Sharp·June 1, 2021

After the Vietnam War, refugees from Southeast Asia began making their way to the U.S. These new citizens brought their cultures, of course, which cross-pollinated with American influences but retained distinctive aspects of their pasts, including music and instrumentation. Guitarist...

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BORDER RADIO: THE LONG RIDE OF AN L.A. CULT CLASSIC

Kurt Voss·May 31, 2021

Director Kurt Voss (Down and Out with The Dolls, Ghost on the Highway) got his start after film school with Border Radio, co-written/co-directed with Allison Anders and Dean Lent, and starring Chris D. (Desjardins), John Doe, Luana Anders and Dave...

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SOUNDMAN CONFIDENTIAL: FRANK X. GALLAGHER ON TALKING HEADS, RAMONES, PLASMATICS AND MORE

Gregory Daurer·May 27, 2021

Frank X. Gallagher is best known as a sound engineer for the likes of Talking Heads, B-52s, Buddy Guy and many others, but he’s also been a record producer, band manager, roadie, road manager, booker and audio engineer at Irving...

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VIVIAN STANSHALL: BEYOND THE BONZO DOG BAND

Gary Lucas·May 26, 2021

Vivian Stanshall was the strikingly eccentric ringleader of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, often described as the UK’s version of the Mothers of Invention. Affecting the manner of an aristocrat, Viv actually hailed from London’s East End, and his...

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LARRY FLYNT FOR PRESIDENT: NADIA SZOLD’S NEW DOCUMENTARY

Zack Kopp·May 25, 2021

Nadia Szold’s documentary Larry Flynt for President was scheduled to have its premiere last year. But COVID put the kibosh on that. In the interim, the subject of the film, free speech crusader and Hustler Magazine founder Larry Flynt, died...

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AMERICAN MASSACRE: TULSA 1921

Alan Bisbort·May 24, 2021

One hundred years ago, the deadliest white-on-black crime in U.S. history took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Not only were hundreds killed in mob violence, but one of the most prosperous Black neighborhoods in America was obliterated, and thousands more Tulsans...

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ROBERT JOHNSON: THE LEGEND VS. THE MAN VS. THE DEVIL

Tony Mostrom·May 20, 2021

There’s Robert Johnson the country blues legend and Robert Johnson the man and somewhere in the mix is the devil. With the help of blues researchers and latter-day biographers, Anthony Mostrom makes a deep dive into the musical past to...

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NEW YORKERS: PHOTOGRAPHER SALLY DAVIES SNAPS THE LAST OF THE BOHEMIANS

James Marshall·May 19, 2021

Sally Davies made her mark in New York as a painter before abruptly switching to photography around 2000. Since then, her street photographs, with their vibrant, painterly colors and good humor, reflect her unique perspective on a city where she’s...

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DAVID WOJNAROWICZ: LIFE INSIDE HIS BURNING HOUSE

Eric Davidson·May 18, 2021

David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992), multimedia artist, musician, AIDS activist and provocateur, brought a punk sensibility to NYC’s downtown gallery world. Aligned with the transgressive art movement of the 1980s, Wojnarowicz collaborated with the likes of filmmaker Richard Kern, but he was...

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BAT OUT OF HELL: THE REAL JIM STEINMAN

Sylvie Simmons·May 17, 2021

When Jim Steinman died in April, the only thing most people knew about him was Meat Loaf. Specifically, his joined-at-the-hip relationship with the beefy singer that resulted in the Bat Out of Hell album. But Sylvie Simmons got to see...

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MISS PAMELA: BEATLEMANIAC

Pamela Des Barres·May 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...

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MILES COPELAND: HIS LIFE IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS

Eric Davidson·May 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...

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UNSANE: RENOWNED POWER TRIO GET A BELATED DEBUT

Jordan Mamone·May 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,...

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Jack Kerouac based his muse/lover “Mardou Fox” in The Subterraneans on Alene Lee, a mixed race (Black/Cherokee) bohemian writer and intellectual who was a part of the NYC Beat circle of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lucien Carr. Despite her intimate connection to these writers, the real Alene Lee is nowhere to be found in most accounts and biographies—partly due to her own reticence to speak. Erika Blair did some digging and presents a more rounded portrait of this fascinating woman. Read more!

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