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GARY LACHMAN (NEE VALENTINE): A NEW YORK ROCKER SAILS INTO THE MYSTIC

Zack Kopp·October 6, 2020

Who would have thought that a former bass player for Blondie would transform himself into one of the world’s authorities on “the influence of the occult and esoteric thought on mainstream Western culture.” Indeed, this is the story of Gary...

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BEAT SURRENDER: RECLAIMING THE LEGACY OF LUCIEN CARR

Catherine de Leon·October 5, 2020

Lucien Carr wasn’t just the person who brought Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs together in New York, he also provided a “New Vision”—the name of his manifesto—around which this circle could initially unite, before they became known...

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BADFINGER: THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF ‘THE NEXT BEATLES’

Scott Schinder·October 1, 2020

Signed to Apple with direct hands-on help from all of the Beatles, particularly Paul (who gave them “Come and Get It”) and George (who co-produced their 3rd album), Badfinger was ‘on top of the world’ by the early 1970s. Ten...

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HARLEM OF THE WEST: SAN FRANCISCO’S FILLMORE DISTRICT

Richie Unterberger·September 30, 2020

Before the hippies swarmed in to reshape America’s counterculture—and before the city embarked on a disastrous urban renewal (or ‘redevelopment’) plan—the Fillmore District in San Francisco was a primarily Black cultural bastion on par with New York’s Harlem, teeming with...

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CARLA BLEY: LIFE GOES ON, SO DOES MUSIC

John Pietaro·September 29, 2020

Composer, pianist and activist Carla Bley was, from an early age, a rebel, turning her back on music at 14 to take up roller skating. By 17, she was working as a cigarette girl at Birdland. Having been given a...

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INSIDE FINGERED: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH FILMMAKER RICHARD KERN

Supervert·September 28, 2020

Richard Kern’s Fingered (1988) is one of the masterpieces of the Cinema of Transgression movement. With bruising performances by Lydia Lunch, Marty Nation, and Lung Leg, the film scandalized critics and incited protesters to attack screenings. Supervert and Richard Kern...

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10 ROCK BANDS YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF BUT SHOULD DEFINITELY CHECK OUT

Rick Casados·September 25, 2020

Is good old Rock ‘n’ Roll dead? When was the last time you heard a new rock band on the radio? When it comes to rock music, the airwaves are saturated with nothing but “classic rock”. You rarely hear anything...

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AND IN THE END: A LOOK AT THE LAST DAYS OF THE BEATLES

Benito Vila·September 24, 2020

So much has been written and said about The Beatles that it’s rare when something fresh comes along. Ken McNab’s And In The End is something fresh. His book takes a deep dive into the last year in the life...

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JAMES WILLIAMSON AND DENIZ TEK: TWO TO ONE

James Marshall·September 23, 2020

When two major guitar wielders with the rock ‘n’ roll pedigrees of James “The Skull” Williamson and Deniz “Iceman” Tek join forces, it is a time for celebration, especially in these dark times. The pair have done it again on...

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WEEGEE: NEW YORK’S FIRST PUNK PHOTOGRAPHER

Alan Bisbort·September 22, 2020

Arthur Fellig (1899-1968), aka Weegee, was a hustler, carny barker and photojournalist all rolled into one rotund, cigar-chomping figure. The “naked city” of New York was his subject. He roamed its streets at night like a vampire in search of...

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HOLLY KNIGHT: BUSTING OUT OF SPIDER’S WEB

Chris Epting·September 21, 2020

Known for hits she later wrote for Tina Turner (“Better Be Good to Me”), Pat Benatar (“Love is a Battlefield”) and others (including KISS, Aerosmith, Cheap Trick and Ozzy Osbourne), Holly Knight’s roots were planted in the post-punk scene of...

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ROD EVANS: DEEP IN THE PURPLE

Fiona McQuarrie·September 17, 2020

Rod Evans, original lead singer of hard-rocking Deep Purple, walked away from the music business in the late 1970s. He didn’t even show up for the ceremony in 2016 when the band was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall...

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NOBODY SPEAKS: GARY FARMER ON JIM JARMUSCH’S ‘DEAD MAN’

David Stewart·September 16, 2020

Canadian-born, Native American actor Gary Farmer served as the moral conscience and spiritual center of Jim Jarmusch’s film Dead Man (1995), a cosmic reimagining of the American Western. Farmer portrays a Native American who had been abducted as a young...

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EWOLF: LIVING IN A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD

Eric Davidson·September 15, 2020

A Detroit-based photographer who was also in the hardcore punk trio Angry Red Planet, Ewolf began documenting the local and regional scenes with his camera. Taking a low-key approach at first, he soon developed a name for himself. Among the...

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Jack Kerouac based his muse/lover “Mardou Fox” in The Subterraneans on Alene Lee, a mixed race (Black/Cherokee) bohemian writer and intellectual who was a part of the NYC Beat circle of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lucien Carr. Despite her intimate connection to these writers, the real Alene Lee is nowhere to be found in most accounts and biographies—partly due to her own reticence to speak. Erika Blair did some digging and presents a more rounded portrait of this fascinating woman. Read more!

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