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ROBERT JOHNSON: THE LEGEND VS. THE MAN VS. THE DEVIL

Tony MostromMay 20, 2021

There’s Robert Johnson the country blues legend and Robert Johnson the man and somewhere in the mix is the devil. With the help of blues researchers and latter-day biographers, Anthony Mostrom makes a deep dive into the musical past to give Robert Jo...

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NEW YORKERS: PHOTOGRAPHER SALLY DAVIES SNAPS THE LAST OF THE BOHEMIANS

James MarshallMay 19, 2021

Sally Davies made her mark in New York as a painter before abruptly switching to photography around 2000. Since then, her street photographs, with their vibrant, painterly colors and good humor, reflect her unique perspective on a city where she’s li...

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DAVID WOJNAROWICZ: LIFE INSIDE HIS BURNING HOUSE

Eric DavidsonMay 18, 2021

David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992), multimedia artist, musician, AIDS activist and provocateur, brought a punk sensibility to NYC’s downtown gallery world. Aligned with the transgressive art movement of the 1980s, Wojnarowicz collaborated with the likes o...

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BAT OUT OF HELL: THE REAL JIM STEINMAN

Sylvie SimmonsMay 17, 2021

When Jim Steinman died in April, the only thing most people knew about him was Meat Loaf. Specifically, his joined-at-the-hip relationship with the beefy singer that resulted in the Bat Out of Hell album. But Sylvie Simmons got to see another side of...

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MISS PAMELA: BEATLEMANIAC

Pamela Des BarresMay 13, 2021

The Beatles had no greater fan than a 14-year-old from Reseda, California, named Pam Miller. Young Pam was so smitten, she invented weird rituals to gauge her fanaticism, wallpapered her room with Beatle posters, kept a photo of Paul by her bedside a...

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MILES COPELAND: HIS LIFE IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS

Eric DavidsonMay 12, 2021

Miles Copeland III was already a veteran music promoter and manager when the punk scene exploded in London. With an office in the same building as Malcolm McLaren, he found himself in a position to sign and/or promote a number of the bands, including...

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UNSANE: RENOWNED POWER TRIO GET A BELATED DEBUT

Jordan MamoneMay 11, 2021

Unsane, the noise-rock power trio, created music straight out of the abyss of NYC in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The city was in the last throes of decay before Giuliani’s gentrifying years when Unsane recorded a debut album, Improvised Munitions...

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THE ORIGINAL GANGSTA: LEAD BELLY AND HIS LEGACY

John KruthMay 10, 2021

Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, was a folk-blues giant whose music and persona transformed American culture. He sang what he lived (poverty, prison, violence) in songs like ‘Gallow’s Pole’ and ‘Black Betty,’ but he also composed standar...

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RELIEF AND RELEASE: REVISITING WENDY O. WILLIAMS & THE PLASMATICS

Adam GandersonMay 6, 2021

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OSSIE CLARK: THE KING OF KING’S ROAD

Ingrid JensenMay 5, 2021

When London was at its swinging-est, designer Ossie Clark (1942-1996) was the cock of the walk along King’s Road. Inspired by Nijinsky, Clark was among the first fashion designer to carry himself like a pop star and his clients were of that same mili...

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PETER SINFIELD: BRINGING WORDS TO KING CRIMSON’S COURT

John PietaroMay 4, 2021

King Crimson’s instrumental juggernaut was, in the first years of its existence, given balance by the band’s talented lyricist, Peter Sinfield. Even so, the poet, musician and producer (who later wrote lyrics for Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Procol Ha...

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CREATION STORIES: ALAN MCGEE’S LIFE, LABEL, LEGACY COMES TO A THEATER NEAR YOU

Amy HabenMay 3, 2021

Glaswegian Alan McGee was the embodiment of the D.I.Y. spirit of the 1980s and 1990s, bringing Oasis, Primal Scream, Jesus and Mary Chain and the Libertines to the world’s attention through his Creation Records and as a band manager. A charming racon...

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SAM COOKE: EPITOME OF COOL

Benito VilaApril 29, 2021

Sam Cooke is back in the spotlight with the release One Night in Miami, a feature film set during in the wake of Cassius Clay’s victory over Sonny Liston. That heavyweight fight brought Cooke together with Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Clay, on the eve o...

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HEARTBREAKERS: THUNDERS VS. PETTY; OR, WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Roxanne FontanaApril 28, 2021

Johnny Thunders and Tom Petty would seem to have little in common other than the names of their bands. However, a recent Facebook debate about the origin of that name pulled singer songwriter Roxanne Fontana back into her own past, and her personal e...

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The Plasmatics, fronted by the unmatchable Wendy O. Williams, may have been the most misunderstood rock ‘n’ roll band ever. Conceived as all of the following: performance art, social comment, consumer culture satirists, and rock ‘n’ roll band; the Plasmatics were impossible to categorize, falling somewhere between punk rock and Kiss/Alice Cooper (both bands were fans), their shows were a legendary as they were terrifying, featuring chainsaws, hammers, exploding cars and TV sets. PKM’s Adam Ganderson speaks with former ‘Matics Wes Beech and Richie Stotts and revisits the legacy of W.O.W. Read more!

Steve Pinhorn on JACK KEROUAC: BASKING IN THE GOLDEN ETERNITYNice article: I’m glad that Dr Sax is a favourite there is so much more to Kerouac than On The Road. I wondered which Jazz records Jack refers to in his books: what were his favourite albums and which specific ones does he mention? Thanks Steve
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Kevin Williams on LAURA NYRO: THE MIRACULOUS MAGIC OF HER MUSICLaura was a once in a lifetime songstress,Litening to her its as if she's telling you personally a story

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