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MEET THE BEATLES WITH MILES: AN INTERVIEW BY LEGS MCNEIL

Legs McNeil·January 7, 2021

Miles (aka Barry Miles) had a front-row seat to the London underground scene of the 1960s, as a bookseller and gallery co-owner at a time when Beatlemania was morphing into psychedelia. He met and befriended Paul McCartney at his Indica...

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GREGORY CORSO: STREET PUNK & BEAT TURNED POET & PLAYWRIGHT

Alan Bisbort·January 6, 2021

Because he was often seen as a character in one of Kerouac’s writings, Gregory Corso has been given second billing from the main Beat pantheon of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Cassady, Burroughs. A new collection of his plays, published by Tough Poets...

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ALICE BAG: AN L.A. PUNK LEGEND

Lucretia Tye Jasmine·January 5, 2021

Alicia Armendariz (aka Alice Bag) is a Los Angeles punk legend, not just for her groundbreaking first band the Bags (featured in Penelope Spheeris’s Decline of Western Civilization), but for her outspokenness, activism, writings, and embodying the D.I.Y. ethic instilled...

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JIMI HENDRIX IN MAUI: GOING FAR BEYOND RAINBOW BRIDGE

Richie Unterberger·January 4, 2021

We can’t think of any better person to ring in the new year at PKM than Jimi Hendrix. A new documentary investigates the Hawaiian concert that became Rainbow Bridge, and corrects a misperception that Hendrix was losing his creative direction...

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PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF 2020, PART II

PKM Editor·December 30, 2020

Keep that tankard of coffee warm because here’s another bracing batch of 2020’s top stories on Please Kill Me. These include features and interviews on the Cramps front man Lux Interior; the peerless bassist, Gail Ann Dorsey (who played for...

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PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF 2020, PART I

PKM Editor·December 28, 2020

Put another log on the fire, top that tankard of coffee, and kick back with Please Kill Me’s Top stories of 2020…starring Poison Ivy and Lux Interior, united again in a tandem of stories by Ingrid Jensen; the tough-talking Carol...

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FOXY LADY: HONORING PAM GRIER

Mark Jacobson·December 24, 2020

Originally written in 1975, at the height of the so-called “Blaxploitation-era”, this New York Magazine piece was recently dusted off by Mark Jacobson for PKM. It is offered here as a lasting tribute to Pam Grier, a ‘singular star of...

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FOUR DEAD IN OHIO: GRAPHIC NOVELIST DERF BACKDERF REVISITS HIS LOCAL HISTORY

Eric Davidson·December 23, 2020

Derf Backderf, the Cleveland-based artist best known (until now) for his long-running strip “The City” and his graphic novel My Friend Dahmer, has created a masterpiece of historical cartooning in Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio. Though a boy when...

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TIGHTEN UP: ARCHIE BELL TAPS INTO A TIMELESS GROOVE

Scott Schinder·December 22, 2020

Like a much-needed vaccine of good-time dance music during the darkest days of 1968, Archie Bell’s “Tighten Up” shot out of Houston like a NASA rocket. America said, ‘Houston, we have no problems now because we got ‘Tighten Up!’. More...

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FRANK ZAPPA: ALEX WINTER’S NEW FILM CAPTURES HIS GENIUS

David Konow·December 21, 2020

Today (Dec. 21, the first official day of winter) would have been Frank Zappa’s 80th birthday. Given how his music continues to attract new generations and the prescience of his social commentary, it’s hard to believe he has been gone...

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ROSE SIMPSON: LIFE IN THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND

Richie Unterberger·December 17, 2020

The Incredible String Band was best-known as the vehicle for the otherworldly talents of Mike Heron and Robin Williamson. However, two other members, Rose Simpson and Licorice McKechnie, were vital to the communal spirit and D.I.Y. ethic of the group,...

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EINAR ÖRN BENEDIKTSSON: BEYOND BJÖRK AND THE SUGARCUBES

Robert Gourley·December 16, 2020

Einar Örn Benediktsson’s career faced an enviable and yet daunting dilemma right out of the gate: His early band, formed in Iceland on a lark with some kindred spirits, were an overnight international success. The Sugarcubes, with whom Einar shared...

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DAVE ALVIN IS STILL BLASTING: ‘IF CHARLES BUKOWSKI OR RAYMOND CHANDLER HAD A BAND’

Noah Lekas·December 15, 2020

In 1979, Dave and Phil Alvin formed the Blasters, a band that grew out of their love of the blues and folk music nurtured at the legendary Ash Grove club in L.A. The Blasters, along with kindred spirits X, expanded...

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LUC SANTE: CHRONICLER OF NEW YORK’S ‘LOW LIFE’

Eric Davidson·December 14, 2020

As a chronicler of New York’s underside and forgotten histories, Luc Sante walked straight out of the pages of Joe Mitchell, A.J. Liebling, the photos of Weegee and the films of Nicholas Ray. Before publishing the book that raised his...

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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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