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THE DEATH OF COUNTRY DICK MONTANA & THE BALLAD OF DAN MCLAIN

Burt KearnsNovember 12, 2019

Once described as ‘half Waylon and half Johnny Rotten,’ Dan McLain was a mortal drummer from San Diego who transformed himself into Country Dick Montana, driving force for the Beat Farmers and Pleasure Barons. It was while performing with the Beat Fa...

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LHASA DE SELA MATTERS

Fiona McQuarrieNovember 11, 2019

Beautiful but uncategorizable music flowed through Lhasa de Sela (1972-2010), whose itinerant, off-the-grid childhood with spiritually-inclined parents allowed her to “fit in everywhere and nowhere.” Though she only released five albums before her ea...

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LYDIA LUNCH: PATHOLOGICAL TRUTH TELLER

Jen B. LarsonNovember 7, 2019

After 42 years of performance art, music, photography and so much more, Lydia Lunch has seemingly put it in hyperdrive. New York University just purchased her archive, a documentary film about her life and career is premiering this week and she has b...

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BJ PAPAS: FROM NY HARDCORE TO LA PUNK – SHE’S SHOT THEM ALL

Sharon M. HannonNovember 6, 2019

Photographer BJ Papas started out shooting the New York hardcore scene—bands like Agnostic Front, the Bad Brains and their audiences. A fan and friend of the bands, she started going to hardcore Sunday matinees at CBGB when she was in college, then h...

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ROBERT ALTMAN: THE SECRET HONOR OF EXILE

Alan BisbortNovember 5, 2019

A completely overlooked 1984 Robert Altman film, with an Oscar-caliber performance by Philip Baker Hall, is the perfect accompaniment to events transpiring in the U.S. on this Election Day. Altman may have made more bad films than any other great dir...

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JULIANA HATFIELD COVERS OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN AND THE POLICE

Robert GourleyNovember 4, 2019

The Boston-based singer and songwriter—who has played with the Blake Babies and the Lemonheads—has carved out a multifaceted solo career since the early 1990s. In addition to her most recent solo albums, Pussycat (2017) and Weird (2019), she recently...

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WHEN NUBIA KICKED EGYPTIAN ASS

Alan BisbortNovember 1, 2019

Ancient Nubia Now, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is a game-changer. The exhibition, on view through January, may even make you rethink how we all got here. Sometimes, when you least expect it, a film or an album or an exhibition comes along ...

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PANYC ATTACK: CAMILLA SALY’S LIVING HISTORY OF NYC PUNK

Eric DavidsonOctober 30, 2019

Camilla Saly turned her wild stories of a misspent youth in punk bars, and their eventual boxes of ephemeral proof, into the Punk Archives NYC, a developing online database for collectors of punk artifacts related to the city. Camilla talked with Eri...

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FROM MINUTEMEN TO MISSINGMEN: MIKE WATT AND FRIENDS CARRY ON

Amanda SheppardOctober 29, 2019

Mike Watt is the Dale Carnegie of rock & roll. He has made more friends and influenced more people than any living bass man, collaborating with everyone from Iggy Pop and J. Mascis to Kathleen Hanna and the late Daniel Johnston (RIP). But he stil...

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LISA LAW: CAPTURING THE SIXTIES AND BEYOND WITH HER TRUTH-TELLING CAMERA

Benito VilaOctober 28, 2019

Lisa Law and her camera, Dennis Hopper once said, caught “everyone” in the Sixties from the Beatles, Dylan and the Byrds to the Velvet Underground, Kesey, Krassner and the Dead. She was also “everywhere” in that time, from the Sunset Strip to Montere...

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NICO: THERE SHE GOES AGAIN, A MEDITATION ON DEATH, BEAUTY AND ARTISTRY

Billy HoughOctober 24, 2019

Nico (Christa Paffgen) was many things to many different people, including Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan, Alain Delon and numerous other collaborators. But to performance artist Billy Hough, Nico was “the most underrated/overexposed ...

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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO BLIND JOE DEATH: JOHN FAHEY IN FOUR MOVEMENTS

Cree McCreeOctober 23, 2019

John Fahey (1939-2001) was one of the most original composer/guitarists of the late 20th century and yet he traveled under the radar of anyone but the most intrepid fans of the avant garde. A guitar prodigy out of Takoma Park, Maryland, he went on to...

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ROGER CORMAN MEETS H.P. LOVECRAFT AND CTHULHU!

Lisa SumnerOctober 22, 2019

Portland, Oregon was the site of this years H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon. Roger Corman and Vincent Price’s daughter, Victoria Price, were the honored guests, and iconoclast filmmaker Richard Stanley made an appearance. They did not d...

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ENTERING FREAK CITY: HANGING OUT WITH HARRY CREWS

Gary LippmanOctober 21, 2019

The hardnosed, hard-living Southern writer once dubbed himself ‘Freak City’ and, despite a lifestyle (booze, drugs, fistfights, etc.) that would have floored most other people, kept a teaching gig at the University of Florida for nearly 40 years whil...

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SLM1975 on MISS PAMELA: MEETING YOUR HEROESI met Brian May (Queen), Roger Daltrey (The Who), Pete Townshend (The Who), Peter Noone (Herman's Hermits), Cozy Powell (Rainbow, Black Sabbath), Neil Murray (Black Sabbath, Whitesnake), Mark Hudson...
John Battles on CYNTHIA PLASTER CASTERPleasant overview of a sometimes misunderstood , but much loved Rock icon in her own right.
D Brown Dangerhouse Records on LOOKING BACK AT 1973…AND THE ROOTS OF PUNKAnd we all know that nothing ever happened outside of the NY purview of Sy Stein and (pukes in trashcan) the ever so talented Piggy Smith and who can forget TELEVISION. And all the rest of the... real... punks... at... the... Mudd Club... and of course Lon-dahn. Nothing ever happened

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MOONAGE DAYDREAM: MAGGI RONSON REMEMBERS HER BROTHER MICK

MISS PAMELA: MEETING YOUR HEROES

PETER AARON OF THE CHROME CRANKS CELEBRATES CINCINNATI’S ‘UNDERGROUND SOUNDS’

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THE DEATH OF COUNTRY DICK MONTANA & THE BALLAD OF DAN MCLAIN

BJ PAPAS: FROM NY HARDCORE TO LA PUNK – SHE’S SHOT THEM ALL

PANYC ATTACK: CAMILLA SALY’S LIVING HISTORY OF NYC PUNK

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THE DEATH OF COUNTRY DICK MONTANA & THE BALLAD OF DAN MCLAIN

LHASA DE SELA MATTERS

LYDIA LUNCH: PATHOLOGICAL TRUTH TELLER

BJ PAPAS: FROM NY HARDCORE TO LA PUNK – SHE’S SHOT THEM ALL

ROBERT ALTMAN: THE SECRET HONOR OF EXILE

JULIANA HATFIELD COVERS OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN AND THE POLICE

WHEN NUBIA KICKED EGYPTIAN ASS

PANYC ATTACK: CAMILLA SALY’S LIVING HISTORY OF NYC PUNK

FROM MINUTEMEN TO MISSINGMEN: MIKE WATT AND FRIENDS CARRY ON

LISA LAW: CAPTURING THE SIXTIES AND BEYOND WITH HER TRUTH-TELLING CAMERA

NICO: THERE SHE GOES AGAIN, A MEDITATION ON DEATH, BEAUTY AND ARTISTRY

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO BLIND JOE DEATH: JOHN FAHEY IN FOUR MOVEMENTS

ROGER CORMAN MEETS H.P. LOVECRAFT AND CTHULHU!

ENTERING FREAK CITY: HANGING OUT WITH HARRY CREWS

MOONAGE DAYDREAM: MAGGI RONSON REMEMBERS HER BROTHER MICK

MISS PAMELA: MEETING YOUR HEROES

PETER AARON OF THE CHROME CRANKS CELEBRATES CINCINNATI’S ‘UNDERGROUND SOUNDS’