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GO PUNK OR GO HOME: PKM’S HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

PKM Editor·December 11, 2020

Take a deep breath, let it out slowly and celebrate this: 2020 is almost over. It’s time now to think holiday shopping, in a safe and healthy way, of course. With that in mind, the PKM elves have hand-picked some...

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STEVE KILBEY KEEPS GOING TO CHURCH

Robert Gourley·December 10, 2020

Australian band, The Church, had hoped to spend 2020 celebrating its 40th anniversary but world events interceded. Bassist and singer Steve Kilbey took the down time to adapt Church back catalog for solo performance which, in turn, inspired him to...

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TOM BAKER: DRINKING IT UP WITH JIM MORRISON

PKM Editor·December 9, 2020

Actor-filmmaker Tom Baker (1940-1982) befriended Jim Morrison in L.A. when he was a budding filmmaker and poet, at the beginning of his Doors’ career. The pair remained friends and drinking buddies for the rest of Morrison’s short life. Baker detailed...

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CHELSEA FLEA MARKET: REBORN AND THRIVING POST-COVID

Larry Baumhor·December 8, 2020

New York City has been celebrating the September reopening of the Chelsea Flea Market. The shared joy of dealers, collectors, buyers and tourists is palpable, even with restrictions and social distancing. Larry Baumhor, a former dealer in vintage photographs at...

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SOUL MUSIC QUEENS: SUNG AND UNSUNG IN THE TIME OF ISOLATION

Christine Ohlman·December 7, 2020

The Queens of Soul, from Aretha to Dolly, will warm up any winter night, even during the coldest times of this pandemic. Christine Ohlman, herself a soul queen and a musical staple on Saturday Night Live, defines her terms and...

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ANDY WARHOL: THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW #7

Billy Hough·December 4, 2020

In a new biography this year, the New York Times art critic Blake Gopnik called Andy Warhol the 20th Century’s most important artist. Obviously, such a declaration takes in far more than the visual aspect of Warhol’s art. In his...

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MANK: THE MAN WHO CREATED CITIZEN KANE

David Stewart·December 3, 2020

A new Netflix film, Mank, directed by David Fincher, focuses attention on the career of Herman J. Mankiewicz. Citizen Kane, for which he wrote the screenplay (and earned the film’s only Academy Award), is now considered THE great American film...

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BILLY HINSCHE HAS HAD A BLAST: FROM TEEN POP STARDOM TO THE BEACH BOYS

Valerie Simadis·December 2, 2020

While attending Good Shepherd Catholic School in Beverly Hills, Billy Hinsche befriended classmates Dino Martin and Desi Arnaz Jr. The trio bonded over music, practiced in Lucille Ball’s garage and at Dean Martin’s mansion. Eventually signed by Frank Sinatra to...

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KRISTIN CASEY’S ROAD TO EXCESS: FROM SPEED PUNK TO ROCK CHICK, FROM DRUNK TO SOBRIETY

Kristin Casey·December 1, 2020

Kristin Casey’s life, from high school to today, has been the embodiment of William Blake’s adage: “the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” From her days as a teen outcast in San Diego and Amarillo to her...

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STEAL THIS NATION: REMEMBERING ABBIE HOFFMAN

Alan Bisbort·November 30, 2020

The life and times of Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989), troublemaker, fugitive activist, writer and countercultural icon, have continued to resonate over the decades since his death in 1989, most recently in the Netflix film The Trial of the Chicago 7. On...

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ALL THINGS MUST PASS AT 50: GEORGE HARRISON’S INNER LIGHT SHINES ON

John Kruth·November 26, 2020

When George Harrison released his epic “triple album” on November 27, 1970, Beatle fans worldwide realized the gig was up, that no band was big enough to hold this man and his vision back. Fifty years later, All Things Must...

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CHARLES BUKOWSKI’S LIFE AFTER DEATH

Alan Bisbort·November 25, 2020

Charles Bukowski worked at a pace that seems almost superhuman. Although he did not turn to writing full-time until he was nearly 40—and despite his well-documented personal excesses—he wrote so much that his publisher Black Sparrow Press (now part of...

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THE CRANBERRIES: NO NEED TO ARGUE

Robert Gourley·November 24, 2020

A new expanded reissue of this Irish band’s second album, No Need To Argue (1994), is a reminder (as if we needed it) of the terrible loss of Dolores O’Riordan in 2018. The album featured their mega-hit “Zombie,” and the...

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LUX INTERIOR: WHERE ON EARTH DID YOU COME FROM?

Ingrid Marie Jensen·November 23, 2020

The Cramps’ frontman was impossible to miss, on or off stage, the perfect foil to his equally striking partner in life and music, Poison Ivy Rorschach. Ingrid Jensen reflects on what made the former Erick Lee Purkhiser, a suburban boy...

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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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