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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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BECOMING TWIGGY: THE FASHION MODEL AS POP STAR

Ingrid Marie Jensen·March 10, 2021

Hers was a face (and body) that launched a thousand quips but also made her the first fashion model to be treated like a pop star. Seventeen-year-old Twiggy (born Lesley Hornby) was dubbed ‘The Face of ‘66’ by the London...

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‘LUSTFUL AND PERVERTED DESIRES’: THE OZ TRIAL, LONDON, 1971

David Stewart·March 9, 2021

Jim Anderson was one of three editors on trial for publishing OZ magazine, the now legendary psychedelic underground weekly accused in 1971 of ‘conspiracy to corrupt public morals.’ The other two, Felix Dennis and Richard Neville have died in recent...

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RON AND RUSSELL MAEL: STILL SQUEEZING OUT SPARKS

Tosh Berman·March 8, 2021

After 50 years and 25 albums and collaborations with a who’s who of rock ‘n’ roll, pop and cinema, you’d think Sparks would be better known. Well, this year might change that. Not only has famed director Edgar “Shaun of...

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THE DICTATORS BACK TOGETHER! ANDY SHERNOFF TELLS ALL

David Laing·March 4, 2021

With their irreverent mix of ‘teengenerate’ sarcasm, three-chord garage rock, surf music and party-hearty stage antics, The Dictators presaged New York City’s punk attitude. An eternal favorite of PKM, the band, with a break here and there, ‘coulda been a...

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IT DON’T BOTHER ME: THE LEGACY OF BERT JANSCH

Alan Bisbort·March 3, 2021

From his earliest days in the folk clubs of Edinburgh—where he learned from greats like Davey Graham, Martin Carthy and Ann Briggs—to his move to London, Bert Jansch (1943-2011) was always exploring new territory on the acoustic guitar. This search...

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GUITARIST DEREK BAILEY: FREE FOR ALL IMPROVISOR

Tony Mostrom·March 2, 2021

Derek Bailey (1930-2005) was a successful guitarist playing pop music in dance halls and jazz in nightclubs in England when he had his ‘road to Damascus’ collision with Anton Webern and free jazz. From the mid-1960s until his death, Bailey...

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CARTOONIST PETER BAGGE: BEYOND PUNK, GRUNGE AND HATE

Eric Davidson·March 1, 2021

Music defined the punk and grunge eras, but comics played an essential role, too. Cartoonist Peter Bagge, an early fan of and contributor to Punk magazine, was living in NYC in punk’s heyday but relocated to Seattle just as that...

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ELDRIDGE CLEAVER: A SOUL FOREVER ON ICE

Richie Unterberger·February 25, 2021

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) was an enigma. The former Black Panther, revolutionary and author was also a murderer, rapist, latter-day Born Again Republican and laughingstock clothes designer. Justin Gifford’s new biography of Cleaver sets the record straight, neither minimizing nor excusing...

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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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