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AC/DC: THE GENESIS OF THE BAND, AND THE AUSTRALIAN SCENE THAT MADE THEM

David Laing·November 19, 2020

With the release of their latest album, Power Up, we explore how AC/DC were shaped by the Australian rock scene, and how the hard-rocking band in turn helped shape it. Melbourne’s David Laing looks at precursors like Billy Thorpe &...

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PETER PERRETT: THE ONE AND ONLY

Amy Haben·November 18, 2020

As the leader of the Only Ones, a band that drew fans like Johnny Thunders, Richard Lloyd, and Keith Richards, Peter Perrett was a musical force on the London scene of the late 1970s. After a few rocky, drug-filled, drug-fueled...

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DAVID GODLIS: HISTORY IS MADE ON THE STREETS

Eric Davidson·November 17, 2020

Photographer David Godlis is one of the foremost chroniclers of downtown NYC in the 1970s. His unique, flashless nighttime black-and-white shots of the punk scene’s fringes and environs are now part of our collective history. In his handsome new book,...

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GOIN’ HOME WITH THE ROLLING STONES

Tosh Berman·November 16, 2020

Thinking about moving into your first home away from the family? Well, there was a time when even the members of the Rolling Stones had to go through that rite of passage. A new collection of photographs by Gered Mankowitz,...

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SLIM GAILLARD & LORD BUCKLEY: JOINED AT THE HIP

Alan Bisbort·November 12, 2020

Bulee “Slim” Gaillard and Richard “Lord” Buckley not only helped Jack Kerouac locate his inner hipster, they influenced the work of other writers and musicians, including Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Lenny Bruce, George Harrison and John Lennon. The stage antics and poetic...

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DAMNED IF YOU DO: PAUL GRAY IS BACK INTO THE WORLD

Eric Davidson·November 11, 2020

The Damned have traveled far beyond their UK punk roots over the decades, fueled by humor and refreshingly free of affectations. Bassist Paul Gray (ex of pub rock greats Eddie & the Hot Rods) was with them for their transitional...

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HANGING WITH GHOSTS: ADELE BERTEI ON PETER LAUGHNER

Richie Unterberger·November 10, 2020

Peter Laughner is one of those ‘what could have been’ rock & roll stories, and nobody knew that potential better than Adele Bertei, who shared a house with Peter in Cleveland and collaborated on projects. In her new revised edition...

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‘RED FLAME’: KAREN ELSON, MODEL, MUSICIAN & MUSE

Amy Haben·November 9, 2020

Supermodel Karen Elson is no one-dimensional stick figure on a fashion runway. As her photo retrospective and memoir Red Flame (Rizzoli) makes abundantly clear, Elson breaks the model stereotype. Amy Haben spoke with Karen about her music career, her writing...

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DIANE DI PRIMA: HER LIFE AS A BEATNIK AND WOMAN

Lisa Janssen·November 6, 2020

Diane di Prima (1934-2020) was a poet, artist, activist and teacher who navigated countercultural landscapes of both the Beats and the Diggers and published more than 40 books of poetry, essays and autobiography, including Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969) and...

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FORTUNE RECORDS: THE ROSETTA STONE OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL

James Marshall·November 5, 2020

Ten years in the making, a beautiful new book by Billy Miller and Michael Hurtt, Mind Over Matter: The Myths and Mysteries of Detroit’s Fortune Records, opens a window onto one of the most important early indie labels in rock...

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RICHARD THOMPSON: WHY DON’T THEY KNOW?

John Kruth·November 4, 2020

The supremely talented guitarist, writer and singer of both grimly funny and beautifully romantic songs, co-founder of Fairport Convention and, with Linda Peters Thompson, one-half of the best married tandem in rock & roll, Richard Thompson has never really gotten...

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FREAK POWER!: WHEN HUNTER S. THOMPSON RAN FOR SHERIFF

Gregory Daurer·November 3, 2020

In 1970, Hunter S. Thompson ran for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado and came within 300 votes of winning! That campaign was cast as the culmination of the ‘Freak Power’ movement that was part libertarian and part eco-crusade against those...

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SETTING THE NIGHT ON FIRE: AN INTERVIEW WITH MIKE DAVIS

Gillian McCain·November 2, 2020

Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear and, most recently, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties (co-authored with Jon Wiener), is a “Marxist-Environmentalist” and international socialist writer, professor, urban theorist and critic who has...

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A JAUNT THROUGH HAUNTED NEW ENGLAND

Rick Casados·October 30, 2020

Take a stroll with us through some of the spookiest, most haunted locations in New England; including a hospital for the criminally insane, an occult museum, a famous Boston park with a dark history, ghostly cemeteries, and more… My family...

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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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