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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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COOL TOWN: HOW ATHENS, GEORGIA CHANGED AMERICAN CULTURE

Parke Puterbaugh·February 24, 2021

In her book Cool Town, Grace Elizabeth Hale offers a history of the Athens, Georgia, music scene, how it came about, thrived and then served as a model for other towns beyond the pale (and free from the dilution) of...

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DAVID HENDERSON: BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT CO-FOUNDER AND THE ‘VOODOO CHILD’

John Pietaro·February 23, 2021

David Henderson, poet, writer and voice, knew and worked with giants like Ornette Coleman, Langston Hughes, Sun Ra, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, John Giorno, Nikki Giovanni, Ishmael Reed and Jimi Hendrix. His 1978 biography of Hendrix (revised in 2003) is...

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HEDI SLIMANE: THE DESIGNER WHO HAS RESURRECTED ROCK ‘N’ ROLL GLAMOUR

Ingrid Marie Jensen·February 22, 2021

French clothing designer and photographer Hedi Slimane has turned the menswear world upside down by using rock ‘n’ roll for inspiration. He has also turned on Millennials and Gen Z to past rock ‘n’ roll greats like his friend David...

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SOMETHING BETTER CHANGE: DOA’S JOEY KEITHLEY ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

Amy Haben·February 19, 2021

Against all odds, Joey “Shithead” Keithley, DOA frontman and longtime activist, won election to city council in his Canadian hometown in 2018. He defeated a former 5-term mayor who was infamous for mocking the homeless. Documentary filmmaker Scott Crawford (CREEM:...

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HIAWATHA BAILEY: PANTHER, PUNK, CULT HERO

Todd McGovern·February 18, 2021

If you spent any time in the Detroit/Ann Arbor cultural scene in the last 50 years, chances are you know the name Hiawatha Bailey, the only Black and Native American member of the White Panther Party. He was on the...

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BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE: TRUTH, JUSTICE & BUFFY’S WAY

Benito Vila·February 17, 2021

Born on the Piapot Plains Cree First Nation Reserve in Saskatchewan, Buffy Sainte-Marie was raised by adoptive parents in Massachusetts, earned degrees in Oriental philosophy and education (and, later, a Ph.D in fine art) and embarked on a six-decade career...

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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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BECOMING TWIGGY: THE FASHION MODEL AS POP STAR

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RON AND RUSSELL MAEL: STILL SQUEEZING OUT SPARKS

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