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PKM TV VISITS THE INFAMOUS DOM NIGHTCLUB ON ST MARK’S PLACE

PKM EditorJanuary 23, 2019

Yes! This week Crispin Kott and Mike Katz of the Rock & Roll Explorer Guide to New York City take us to the (once) infamous Dom on St. Mark's Place to relive the glory days of the Velvets, Stooges and others! https://youtu.be/R_t4jjeSWTk PKM’s ...

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LOU REED: FREEING THE ROCK & ROLL ANIMAL

Steve KatzJanuary 23, 2019

When Steve Katz, late of Blood Sweat & Tears and the Blues Project, signed on to produce some Lou Reed albums, he discovered that there were two Lou Reeds. The first one was an animal, captured beautifully live, and the second one was a zombie, s...

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BP FALLON: PHOTOGRAPHING THE LEGENDS

Amy HabenJanuary 22, 2019

After landing a job on the staff at Apple Records in the late 1960s, the Irish singer, raconteur and man-about-town seemed to meet and greet and photograph everyone worth knowing in rock & roll. He walks PKM's Amy Haben through some of his most e...

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PETER MURPHY: 40 YEARS OF BAUHAUS REVISITED

Amanda SheppardJanuary 21, 2019

Peter Murphy has reunited with David J., to perform their dark fusion of glam, cabaret, rock and reggae on the career-spanning Ruby Anniversary tour. PKM spoke to Murphy about the tour and playing his "miserable" ho...

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LED ZEPPELIN: DID THEY, OR DIDN’T THEY, PLAY?

Alan BisbortJanuary 18, 2019

Filmmaker Jeff Krulik, auteur of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, has created a gripping film about a Led Zeppelin concert mystery. A handful of people claim they saw the band play a gig at a rec center in Wheaton, Maryland in 1969, during the Nixon inaugura...

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A RIOT OF THEIR OWN: THE FIRST GENERATION OF FEMALE ROCK BANDS

Jim AllenJanuary 17, 2019

It didn’t start with the Runaways or the Go-Go’s. 60s bands like Ace of Cups, She, The Girls, Goldie & The Gingerbreads, The Untouchable, The Pleasure Seekers, The Liverbirds and many more, were part of the first wave of bold young women, mostly ...

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MARK DUPLASS: FAST, FUN AND FURIOUS

Whitney MathesonJanuary 16, 2019

The filmmaker, producer, actor, writer, musician and famous brother (to Jay Duplass) talks filmmaking, music and ‘being reckless, fast and not second-guessing myself’ This year alone, Mark Duplass has produced Wild Wild Country, the astonishing Netf...

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MICHAEL CHAIKEN: MAKING BOB DYLAN’S ARCHIVE COME ALIVE

James MarshallJanuary 15, 2019

The Dylan Archive curator’s road to Tulsa was paved with good obsessions, such as free jazz, Godard, the Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker, Norman Mailer and working with Glenn Horowitz. James Marshall hounds out the roadmap in a wide-ranging interview with C...

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STAR POWER FOR FOXY TEENS, A 1970s ‘GROUPIE’ MAGAZINE

Lucretia Tye JasmineJanuary 14, 2019

Naked shots of David Cassidy next to quizzes that asked the girl readership “How Far Out Are You?” made this 1970s magazine a “Cosmopolitan for teenagers”. Star magazine, the Los Angeles-based teen periodical sometimes referred to as a "groupie...

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CHRIS BELL: A FALLING STAR IN A FLEETING COSMOS

Bruce EatonJanuary 10, 2019

After sketching out the creative blueprint for Memphis-based Big Star, the band that launched a thousand other “power pop” bands, Chris Bell left it in Alex Chilton’s hands after one album. He spent the rest of his short life trying to reclaim that m...

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‘SHELLAC IN HIS VEINS’: AN INTERVIEW WITH SEYMOUR STEIN

Legs McNeilJanuary 9, 2019

As the co-founder (with Richard Gottehrer) of Sire Records in 1966, Seymour Stein reshaped the direction of popular music with his signing and tireless support of acts like the Ramones, Talking Heads, the Pretenders, The Smiths, The Cure, Ice-T, Echo...

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SUN RA: NEVER A PART OF THIS PLANET

Alan BisbortJanuary 8, 2019

Sun Ra, “one of the strangest artists that America has ever produced” was once on the cover of Rolling Stone, shared bills with the MC5, performed on Saturday Night Live, influenced everyone from Kenneth Anger to Pink Floyd and dreamed of the day tha...

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WHEN ARGENTINA WENT PUNK

Elilet GiudicheJanuary 7, 2019

The Ramones planted the seeds for a rock & roll revolution in a country that had been for too long in the grip of military dictators. Their fans became known as “Ramoneros” and are still revitalizing the punk scene today. The Ramones first arriv...

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JAMES “THE HOUND” MARSHALL IS BACK ON THE AIR

Fran FriedJanuary 4, 2019

Having developed a rabid following for his groundbreaking decade-long show on WFMU—often imitated but never equaled thereafter—the Hound is on the loose again, airing his new show on Sunday afternoons via his website. Fran Fried, another ‘free-form’ ...

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jennylens on JENNY LENS: AN L.A. PUNK PIONEERI earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Design from CalArts PRIOR to punk. I'm very proud of my scholastic achievements. I also was an honor student. But I never studied photography. I studied and still study art history. I photograph like a painter.
h Grape Minkoff on CHRIS STEIN: HIS PHOTOGRAPHIC POINT OF VIEWI saw one of Lester Bang's first CBGB's performance. He was not born to perform. I think I have an audio recording of the show.
Grape Minkoff on OH SO PRETTY: TOBY MOTT’S PUNK ARTIFACTSThe Boys as one-hit wonders? Their lp's are still in my rotation and they are still playing live shows around the world. Wonder if Mr. Mott new my departed friend Peter Dougherty . . .
Janelle Brinkley on DANCING WITH THE GHOST OF JAMES DEANBeautifully written with true love for and endless admiration of a legend who will never be forgotten. Makes me want to read more! :) It may be James Dean's birthday, but we readers are the ones who received the gift. Thank you, Pamela Des Barres!

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