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G. GORDON LIDDY: REST IN PEACE (NOT)

Legs McNeil·April 5, 2021

G. Gordon Liddy was one of the memorable characters to emerge from the Watergate scandals. A former FBI man and prosecutor—he’d made a splash raiding the upstate New York estate where Timothy Leary was conducting LSD experiments—he was hired by...

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WHEN CAN I FLY?: MICHAEL BELFER, THE SLEEPERS AND TUXEDOMOON

Richie Unterberger·April 1, 2021

Michael Belfer and his Bay Area-based bands the Sleepers and Tuxedomoon were mainstays, along with Crime, of the San Francisco punk and post-punk scenes of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. Influenced by the Stooges and artier fare like Eno...

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REVEREND GARY DAVIS: I AM THE LIGHT OF THIS WORLD

John Kruth·March 31, 2021

Reverend Gary Davis (1896-1972), guitar virtuoso and folk-blues giant, moved from Durham, N.C. to New York City, where he struggled for years as a blind street singer and storefront preacher. Working at first as an instructor through Brownie McGhee’s Harlem-based...

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VIN DIESEL, ARTHUR RUSSELL AND ME

Gary Lucas·March 30, 2021

Mixmaster Arthur Russell meets wannabe rapper Mark Sinclair (aka Vin Diesel). What could possibly go wrong? That’s what Gary Lucas thought when he brought these two talents together in a recording studio. At the time, Lucas was an A&R scout...

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AUTOMNE ZINGG: THE MANY STRINGS OF HER ART

Amy Haben·March 29, 2021

Automne Zingg is an artistic force. The New York City-based visual artist creates funny, surreal, psychedelic portraits and images, but she’s also an author, publishing recipe books starring the Ramones, Nick Cave, Morrissey and others. But, first and foremost, she’s...

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HUBERT SUMLIN: HOWLIN’ WOLF’S SECRET WEAPON

Elliott Sharp·March 25, 2021

As Howlin’ Wolf’s longtime guitarist, Hubert Sumlin (1931-2011) kept to the shadows, but his sweet, subtle, sophisticated leads were the perfect foil for the big man out front. His name may not have been known in every household, but Sumlin’s...

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RICHARD HELL: THE PAST AND PRESENT OF DESTINY STREET

James Marshall·March 24, 2021

Richard Hell and the Voidoids are best-known for their debut album, the masterful Blank Generation (1977). Before completely disbanding, they released a second album in 1982, Destiny Street. Never fully satisfied with its sound, Richard Hell aimed to do something...

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MARATHON LENS: PHOTOGRAPHER STEVE RAPPORT ON JOE STRUMMER, STYLE COUNCIL, LITTLE RICHARD AND MORE

Amy Haben·March 23, 2021

British photographer Steve Rapport returned to London in 1980 and played “catch up” on the exploding rock ‘n’ roll scene in the wake of the punk explosion. From that time until the mid-1990s, he was everywhere with his camera, earning...

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DOWNTOWN LIFE: JOHN OATES RECALLS HIS EARLY DAYS IN NYC

Chris Epting·March 22, 2021

When Daryl Hall and John Oates arrived in New York from Philadelphia in 1972, they were a folk-soul duo signed to Atlantic Records. The city, particularly the Downtown scenes at the Mercer Art Center and Max’s Kansas City, would have...

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FRED NEIL: THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS LIFE

Scott Schinder·March 18, 2021

In 1969, as his most famous song, ‘Everybody’s Talkin’”, was dominating pop charts, Fred Neil (1936-2001) was working overtime to remove himself from the public eye. Though he turned his back on fame, Neil’s vanishing act couldn’t obscure the power...

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NICK REYNOLDS: ALABAMA 3, THE SOPRANOS, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, SEX PISTOLS AND DEATH MASKS

Gregory Daurer·March 17, 2021

The resume of Nick Reynolds has many fascinating facets—son of the mastermind of The Great Train Robbery, abstract artist, maker of death masks of Malcolm McLaren, Peter O’Toole, and his bandmate (from Alabama 3) Jake Black, maker of life masks...

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NANCY BARILE: HARDCORE WAS NOT A BOYS’ CLUB

Jen B. Larson·March 16, 2021

Nancy Barile was, along with countless other women in the city in the early 1980s, an integral part of Philadelphia’s punk and hardcore scenes, as a promoter, manager and writer. Generally, though, accounts of hardcore discount or ignore completely the...

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KID CONGO POWERS: DREAMING ABOUT LUX & POISON IVY, JEFFREY LEE PIERCE AND SEAN DELEAR

Eric Davidson·March 15, 2021

The genial former member of the Gun Club, the Cramps, Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds and a collaborator with just about anyone else cool, Kid Congo Powers has not slowed down since his move to Arizona. His current projects include recordings...

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THE KRAY TWINS: A COUPLE OF LIKELY LADS IN SWINGING LONDON

Catherine de Leon·March 11, 2021

Reg and Ron Kray were the OTHER Glimmer Twins of the Swinging Sixties in London. Notorious gangsters, murderers and sadistic club owners, they were the yen to Mick and Keith’s yang but, for a time, they were part of the...

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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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G. GORDON LIDDY: REST IN PEACE (NOT)

WHEN CAN I FLY?: MICHAEL BELFER, THE SLEEPERS AND TUXEDOMOON

REVEREND GARY DAVIS: I AM THE LIGHT OF THIS WORLD

VIN DIESEL, ARTHUR RUSSELL AND ME

AUTOMNE ZINGG: THE MANY STRINGS OF HER ART

HUBERT SUMLIN: HOWLIN’ WOLF’S SECRET WEAPON

RICHARD HELL: THE PAST AND PRESENT OF DESTINY STREET

MARATHON LENS: PHOTOGRAPHER STEVE RAPPORT ON JOE STRUMMER, STYLE COUNCIL, LITTLE RICHARD AND MORE

DOWNTOWN LIFE: JOHN OATES RECALLS HIS EARLY DAYS IN NYC

FRED NEIL: THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS LIFE

NICK REYNOLDS: ALABAMA 3, THE SOPRANOS, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, SEX PISTOLS AND DEATH MASKS

NANCY BARILE: HARDCORE WAS NOT A BOYS’ CLUB

KID CONGO POWERS: DREAMING ABOUT LUX & POISON IVY, JEFFREY LEE PIERCE AND SEAN DELEAR

THE KRAY TWINS: A COUPLE OF LIKELY LADS IN SWINGING LONDON

SAM CUTLER: LIFE WITH THE STONES, THE DEAD & OTHER WONDERFUL REPROBATES

ALL THE RAJ: HOW ‘NORWEGIAN WOOD’ UNLEASHED THE ‘INDIAN INVASION’

THE KNACK … AND HOW TO GET IT: AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESCOTT NILES

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