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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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BACHIR ATTAR AND THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA

John Kruth·September 14, 2020

Though Brian Jones brought world-wide notice to these Moroccan master musicians in the early 1970s, their tradition goes back a millennium. Beyond Jones and the Stones, they’ve influenced Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Bill Laswell, Steve Lacy, Peter Gabriel and Sonic...

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MY FAVORITE ALCHEMIST: AN HOMAGE TO HAL WILLNER

Gary Lippman·September 10, 2020

The release of Hal Willner’s final recorded project, Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T.Rex, got Gary Lippman thinking about his friend and ‘master alchemist.’ Just as he’d been doing since forever, Willner reimagined Bolan’s work with the...

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SHOPPING WITH A PURPOSE: PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR HEART IS

Amy Haben·September 9, 2020

The pandemic and the killing of George Floyd have unleashed a global wave of dissent unprecedented in our lifetimes. But these events only brought to the surface pent-up frustrations and anger that simmered while the planet warmed, corporations consolidated power,...

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BEN REY: A NEW YORK PUNK INSTITUTION

Larry Baumhor·September 8, 2020

Inspired by his visits to Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s Let It Rock shop in London, Ben Rey began wearing his own self-made punk fashions in the 1970s and just never stopped once he relocated to New York City. He...

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ROLLING STONE: LIFE AND DEATH OF BRIAN JONES

Gary Lucas·September 7, 2020

The acclaimed guitarist Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, Gods and Monsters, Lou Reed, et al.) has long held a special flame for Brian Jones, the co-founder of the Rolling Stones whose deep love of American blues gave the band...

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TINA BELL’S HIDDEN LEGACY: THE BLACK WOMAN WHO CREATED THE SOUND OF GRUNGE

Jen B. Larson·September 3, 2020

In 1983, the Seattle band Bam Bam, fronted by a talented, elegant Black woman named Tina Bell, created a sound and lyrical foundation for a genre that white men with knit hats and plaid shirts would later make famous as...

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

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

JAMES WILLIAMSON AND DENIZ TEK: TWO TO ONE

WEEGEE: NEW YORK’S FIRST PUNK PHOTOGRAPHER

HOLLY KNIGHT: BUSTING OUT OF SPIDER’S WEB

ROD EVANS: DEEP IN THE PURPLE

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

EWOLF: LIVING IN A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD

BACHIR ATTAR AND THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA

MY FAVORITE ALCHEMIST: AN HOMAGE TO HAL WILLNER

SHOPPING WITH A PURPOSE: PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR HEART IS

BEN REY: A NEW YORK PUNK INSTITUTION

ROLLING STONE: LIFE AND DEATH OF BRIAN JONES

TINA BELL’S HIDDEN LEGACY: THE BLACK WOMAN WHO CREATED THE SOUND OF GRUNGE

SAM CUTLER: LIFE WITH THE STONES, THE DEAD & OTHER WONDERFUL REPROBATES

ALL THE RAJ: HOW ‘NORWEGIAN WOOD’ UNLEASHED THE ‘INDIAN INVASION’

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