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REVEREND GARY DAVIS: I AM THE LIGHT OF THIS WORLD

John KruthMarch 31, 2021

Reverend Gary Davis (1896-1972), guitar virtuoso and folk-blues giant, moved from Durham, N.C. to New York City, where he struggled for years as a blind street singer and storefront preacher. Working at first as an instructor through Brownie McGhee’s...

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VIN DIESEL, ARTHUR RUSSELL AND ME

Gary LucasMarch 30, 2021

Mixmaster Arthur Russell meets wannabe rapper Mark Sinclair (aka Vin Diesel). What could possibly go wrong? That’s what Gary Lucas thought when he brought these two talents together in a recording studio. At the time, Lucas was an A&R scout at Co...

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AUTOMNE ZINGG: THE MANY STRINGS OF HER ART

Amy HabenMarch 29, 2021

Automne Zingg is an artistic force. The New York City-based visual artist creates funny, surreal, psychedelic portraits and images, but she’s also an author, publishing recipe books starring the Ramones, Nick Cave, Morrissey and others. But, first an...

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HUBERT SUMLIN: HOWLIN’ WOLF’S SECRET WEAPON

Elliott SharpMarch 25, 2021

As Howlin’ Wolf’s longtime guitarist, Hubert Sumlin (1931-2011) kept to the shadows, but his sweet, subtle, sophisticated leads were the perfect foil for the big man out front. His name may not have been known in every household, but Sumlin’s playing...

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RICHARD HELL: THE PAST AND PRESENT OF DESTINY STREET

James MarshallMarch 24, 2021

Richard Hell and the Voidoids are best-known for their debut album, the masterful Blank Generation (1977). Before completely disbanding, they released a second album in 1982, Destiny Street. Never fully satisfied with its sound, Richard Hell aimed to...

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MARATHON LENS: PHOTOGRAPHER STEVE RAPPORT ON JOE STRUMMER, STYLE COUNCIL, LITTLE RICHARD AND MORE

Amy HabenMarch 23, 2021

British photographer Steve Rapport returned to London in 1980 and played “catch up” on the exploding rock ‘n’ roll scene in the wake of the punk explosion. From that time until the mid-1990s, he was everywhere with his camera, earning a steady living...

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DOWNTOWN LIFE: JOHN OATES RECALLS HIS EARLY DAYS IN NYC

Chris EptingMarch 22, 2021

When Daryl Hall and John Oates arrived in New York from Philadelphia in 1972, they were a folk-soul duo signed to Atlantic Records. The city, particularly the Downtown scenes at the Mercer Art Center and Max’s Kansas City, would have a profound impac...

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FRED NEIL: THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS LIFE

Scott SchinderMarch 18, 2021

In 1969, as his most famous song, ‘Everybody’s Talkin’”, was dominating pop charts, Fred Neil (1936-2001) was working overtime to remove himself from the public eye. Though he turned his back on fame, Neil's vanishing act couldn't obscure the power o...

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NICK REYNOLDS: ALABAMA 3, THE SOPRANOS, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, SEX PISTOLS AND DEATH MASKS

Gregory DaurerMarch 17, 2021

The resume of Nick Reynolds has many fascinating facets—son of the mastermind of The Great Train Robbery, abstract artist, maker of death masks of Malcolm McLaren, Peter O’Toole, and his bandmate (from Alabama 3) Jake Black, maker of life masks of Mi...

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NANCY BARILE: HARDCORE WAS NOT A BOYS’ CLUB

Jen B. LarsonMarch 16, 2021

Nancy Barile was, along with countless other women in the city in the early 1980s, an integral part of Philadelphia’s punk and hardcore scenes, as a promoter, manager and writer. Generally, though, accounts of hardcore discount or ignore completely t...

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KID CONGO POWERS: DREAMING ABOUT LUX & POISON IVY, JEFFREY LEE PIERCE AND SEAN DELEAR

Eric DavidsonMarch 15, 2021

The genial former member of the Gun Club, the Cramps, Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds and a collaborator with just about anyone else cool, Kid Congo Powers has not slowed down since his move to Arizona. His current projects include recordings with Wolfmanhatta...

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THE KRAY TWINS: A COUPLE OF LIKELY LADS IN SWINGING LONDON

Catherine de LeonMarch 11, 2021

Reg and Ron Kray were the OTHER Glimmer Twins of the Swinging Sixties in London. Notorious gangsters, murderers and sadistic club owners, they were the yen to Mick and Keith’s yang but, for a time, they were part of the same hip milieu. The Krays gav...

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BECOMING TWIGGY: THE FASHION MODEL AS POP STAR

Ingrid JensenMarch 10, 2021

Hers was a face (and body) that launched a thousand quips but also made her the first fashion model to be treated like a pop star. Seventeen-year-old Twiggy (born Lesley Hornby) was dubbed ‘The Face of ‘66’ by the London media and, for the next four ...

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‘LUSTFUL AND PERVERTED DESIRES’: THE OZ TRIAL, LONDON, 1971

David StewartMarch 9, 2021

Jim Anderson was one of three editors on trial for publishing OZ magazine, the now legendary psychedelic underground weekly accused in 1971 of ‘conspiracy to corrupt public morals.’ The other two, Felix Dennis and Richard Neville have died in recent ...

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Richie on LEONARD COHEN, PHIL SPECTOR: DEATH OF LADIES’ MENThere's this chick on some forum I'm on, talking about how punk she is, trying to dress the "part", born late 90's. Should I just punch her in her multiple-piercing face? Why am I so angry?
Jim Storm on WHEN CAN I FLY?: MICHAEL BELFER, THE SLEEPERS AND TUXEDOMOONIt's like this no its like this comets and tombstones and kittens popping and hissing in our heads and sleepers neither animate nor inanimate but suturing the air with bloody angel songscapes.....no no no sublime just couldn't have been many the purer no nights to no nights crumbling into morning
A Web Revolution on LAURA NYRO: THE MIRACULOUS MAGIC OF HER MUSICTo Laura, just adding a bass was enough, where bringing in drums was ‘overproducing’ the record as far as she was concerned.

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