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NO WAY OUT FOR THE CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND!

Amanda SheppardNovember 27, 2018

Psychedelic Sixties’ Bay Area survivors the Chocolate Watchband cut their teeth on bills with the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead but went their own way with their heavier British Invasion sound over the past half century... and they have a ...

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HARVEY KURTZMAN AND HIS CRY FOR HELP!

Charles MonaganNovember 26, 2018

The Mad genius (in more ways than one!) kept going after parting company with William Gaines, creating other bastions of enduring satire, cartoons and humor in the 1950s and 1960s, such as Humbug, Trump, and Help! Contributors included John Cleese, T...

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TAV FALCO: UTOPIAN ANARCHIST IN CUBAN HEELS

Todd McGovernNovember 23, 2018

Tav Falco is a musician, photographer, filmmaker, and writer, who has led the psychedelic rock group Panther Burns since 1979. Todd McGovern talks to Tav about his new album Cabaret Of Daggers, growing up in rural Arkansas, Memphis' cultural undergro...

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Sonny Curtis(far right) and The Crickets

SONNY CURTIS: HE FOUGHT THE LAW AND HE WON

Michael ShelleyNovember 21, 2018

Sonny Curtis grew up with Buddy Holly, played in the Crickets and shaped the future of rock & roll. Then he just never stopped working, as part of the Everly Brothers’ band, session musician, and songwriter. Everybody from Bing Crosby, Joan ...

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WOODY WOODMANSEY: THE LAST SPIDER FROM MARS

Robert GourleyNovember 20, 2018

David Bowie’s drummer recalls his time with ‘Ziggy Stardust’, Mick Ronson and Trevor Bolder and now pays tribute, with longtime Bowie associate Tony Visconti, in Holy Holy, touring in 2019 The last surviving member of The Spiders from Mars, drummer ...

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WHEN PARTYING GOES TOO FAR: ROCK STARS’ WILD BEHAVIOR!

Amy HabenNovember 19, 2018

The road to success is paved with excess, and these ten tales are ones the participants will never live down...nor should they! Slash had said, “Being a rock star is the intersection of who you are and who you want to be.” Some musicians let their i...

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Norman Mailer and Legs McNeil. Photo by Victor Bockris.

NORMAN MAILER MEETS THE RESIDENT PUNK, 1979

Legs McNeilNovember 16, 2018

The great novelist had just published The Executioner’s Song—which would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize—when he sat down with Legs McNeil two days after they had attended a Ramones concert at CBGB. Mailer talks about his experiences with drugs,...

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REVENGE OF THE NERD? CURTIS ARMSTRONG IS NOT TRAPPED BY BOOGER!

Whitney MathesonNovember 14, 2018

The genial actor and now memoirist talks rock ‘n’ roll, forgotten screenplays, David Foster Wallace and, yes, Booger Despite a 40-year career that encompasses tons of theater, film and TV roles, most people know Curtis Armstrong from his supporting ...

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‘ZEN BASTARD’ PAUL KRASSNER HAS THE LAST LAUGH AND THE LAST WORD

Benito VilaNovember 13, 2018

Publisher/editor of The Realist, satirist, comedian, Merry Prankster, Yippie co-founder, and compatriot of a who’s who of the counterculture is still shocking all the right people at age 86. In the first part of this long interview, he talks about th...

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PKM TV EXPLORES THE HISTORY OF ST. MARK’S CHURCH IN NYC

Alan BisbortNovember 12, 2018

PKM TV is in the house, ya’ll! Well, actually, it’s in the church. St. Mark’s Church, to be more precise. Today, on PKM TV, we are lucky to have Mike Katz & Crispin Kott, authors of the Rock & Roll Explorer Guide to New York City, taking us ...

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A LOVE SUPREME: HOW JOHN COLTRANE CHANGED THE WORLD

Alan BisbortNovember 12, 2018

With a single night’s recording session and a 1965 album, “Trane” pointed the way toward a new consciousness not just in music but in all things. Jazz historian Ashley Kahn tells us how and why… Mention the word “jazz” in a roomful of rock & rol...

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DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM: THE RADIO BIRDMAN STORY

Amanda SheppardNovember 9, 2018

Australia’s proto-punk pioneers formed in 1974, were signed by Seymour Stein in 1977, and influenced a generation of Oz rockers by leading a DIY revolution in Sydney. Their story is recounted with gusto in a new documentary film. Amanda Sheppard talk...

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SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL AT 50: THE FILM & ERA-DEFINING SONG BY THE ROLLING STONES

Richie UnterbergerNovember 8, 2018

French film director Jean-Luc Godard believed that art was never finished. On the eve of his controversial film’s 50th anniversary reissue, Richie Unterberger talked to Tony Richmond, the cinematographer for Sympathy for the Devil (One Plus One) and,...

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DAVID BOX: THE OTHER ROCK & ROLL GENIUS FROM LUBBOCK

Burt KearnsNovember 7, 2018

He joined the Crickets after Buddy Holly died in a plane crash, befriended Roy Orbison, toured with Dusty Springfield, the Everly Brothers and the Searchers…and then died in exactly the same manner as Buddy Holly by Burt Kearns and Jeff Abraham O...

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✨Erin✨ on MY BLOOMIN’ GROUPIE HEART AND THE STRUTSfantastic interview! Thank you for sharing! I love the quote “This band doesn’t need smoke and mirrors, props or fireworks. Luke is a flesh and blood Roman Candle.” I’ve had more fun at their shows than any other I’ve been to and it’s true, they have so much stage presence
Matt on FANTASY ARTIST KEN KELLY LIVES IN THE HOUSE THAT KISS BUILTAwesome article. Great piece of art and music history.
What’s taking so long? on THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME HATES WOMEN!Stevie Nicks - great solo career. Same with Tina Turner. Great pop rockers going back to the late 1960s - Cher, Tina Turner, Olivia Newton-John, Bette Midler, Diana Ross, and Carly Simon. New Wave artists like The Go-Gis, The Eurythmics, The Bangles, and Cyndi Lauper. Country rockers like EmmyLou Harris,
Whitey Black on DICK GREGORY, COMEDIAN AND ACTIVIST, DIES AT 84Dick Gregory to heckling redneck conventioners at Chicago's Playboy Club: Where you fellows from? Alabama? I LOVE Alabama! So much that I spent 35 years in Alabama one weekend!

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