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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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THE LOST TESTAMENT OF SAM BUTERA: THE RISE & FALL OF ‘THE WILDEST SHOW IN VEGAS’

Burt Kearns·February 16, 2021

Sax player and arranger Sam Butera was ‘Keith Richards to Louis Prima’s Mick Jagger’ once he joined the great trumpeter, singer and bandleader in Las Vegas in 1954. With vocalist Keely Smith, the group leaped into national consciousness on the...

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PINK FAIRIES: THE COSMIC ROCK FUZZ OF PUNK’S PIONEERS

Adam Ganderson·February 15, 2021

The story of the Pink Fairies is like a trip down a rabbit hole into a psychedelicized wonderland that includes characters like Lemmy Kilmister and Hawkwind, Mick Farren and The Deviants, Twink, Larry Wallis, Steve “Peregrin” Took, Sandy Sanderson, the...

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JONI MITCHELL: THE FIRST FIVE YEARS

Richie Unterberger·February 11, 2021

Despite being regarded as one of her generation’s greatest singer-songwriters, Joni Mitchell labored in relative obscurity for years before Reprise released her debut album, Songs to a Seagull (1968). Prior to that, she was writing and performing prolifically, while her...

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ASTOR PIAZZOLLA-THE TANGO ASSASSIN AT 100

John Kruth·February 10, 2021

The Argentine musical master Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) was a disrupter, in the manner of Stravinsky, the Dadaists, Bob Dylan and, yes, even the Sex Pistols (or, at least, Malcolm McLaren). He embodied both the beauty and the beastliness of life....

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HOW HOLLYWOOD HANDLED THE HIPPIES, PART II: BIKERS, BAD TRIPS, LOVE-INS

Jim Allen·February 9, 2021

Hollywood brass had discovered bikers long before the hippies (see Brando in The Wild One, 1953) but they really got their motors runnin’ once everyone started growing their hair down to their shoulders in the 1960s. Toss in some bad...

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SKULL FORMING: TIM WRIGHT AFTER PERE UBU

Elliott Sharp·February 8, 2021

Years ago, the celebrated composer and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp got to know and perform with Tim Wright, the original bassist and co-founder of Cleveland’s ur-punk Pere Ubu, member (with Arto Lindsay) of DNA and solo artist. At one point in...

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JUNIOR KIMBROUGH’S JUKE JOINT: KEEPING DIRTY BLUES ALIVE

Bob Pomeroy·February 4, 2021

During the 1990s, a legendary but crumbling juke joint in the northern Mississippi hills kept the ‘dirty blues’ of Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin’ Wolf and Fred McDowell alive. It was run by a Memphis bluesman named David “Junior” Kimbrough. After...

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BLOOD & GUTS: LIFE & DEATH AS A FORENSIC INVESTIGATOR

Amy Haben·February 3, 2021

The plots of Forensic Files, the CSI franchise, Endeavour, The Fall—and all these other popular TV shows and miniseries in the past few years—revolve around the work of police forensic investigators. Amy Haben got to know one member of this...

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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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COOL TOWN: HOW ATHENS, GEORGIA CHANGED AMERICAN CULTURE

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