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SAN FRANCISCO PUNK PRANKSTERS: PINK SECTION, INFLATABLE BOY CLAMS

Richie Unterberger·August 19, 2020

Influenced by the punk scene centered at Mabuhay Gardens, and the fun, bohemian spirit of a city that was, back then, an affordable place to live, Judy Gittelsohn and Carol McClellan formed two different, musical contingents. One was Pink Section,...

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CASSIE RAMONE: RETURN OF A VIVIAN GIRL

Austin Brookner·August 18, 2020

Taking their name from a profoundly strange book by outsider artist Henry Darger, the Brooklyn-based trio Vivian Girls developed an avid local following which expanded exponentially once they hit the road. The solid core from the start has been Cassie...

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CREEM RISES TO THE TOP AGAIN

Alan Bisbort·August 17, 2020

Scott Crawford’s widely-acclaimed documentary film CREEM: America’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll Magazine has brought renewed attention, even reverence, to the magazine, which ceased publication in 1989. In addition to the film, a 50th anniversary commemorative issue is in the works....

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SOME LATE WORDS: ALLEN GINSBERG

John Kruth·August 13, 2020

Musician and writer John Kruth met with Allen Ginsberg two months before the great poet’s death. He was there ostensibly to talk about Rahsaan Roland Kirk while researching a book on the jazz musician. But in going through old files,...

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VIKTOR TSOI: THE LEGEND OF RUSSIA’S GREATEST ROCK STAR LIVES ON

Yuliya Abasheva·August 12, 2020

Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Russia’s most beloved rock & roll star. When Viktor Tsoi died in a 1990 car crash, it was, to a young person in the Soviet Union, as if Bob Dylan, James...

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KATIE JANE GARSIDE SAILS AGAIN

Amanda Sheppard·August 11, 2020

British singer-songwriter, one-time Riot Grrrl, and Daisy Chainsaw and Queenadreena frontwoman, Katie Jane Garside, is back with her new album, Geiger Counter, from her latest project, liar, flower. Amanda Sheppard spoke with her for PKM. Proclaimed by Courtney Love as one of the...

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HERE’S LOOKING AT HUGH: THE STRANGLERS’ HUGH CORNWELL SPEAKS

Anthony Petkovich·August 10, 2020

The former guitarist/vocalist of the classic English punk band has, since he left the Stranglers, had a long and wide-ranging solo career as both a musician and writer. Cornwell talks at length about his musical roots, solo projects, friendships with...

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THE PRETTIEST STAR: ANGIE BOWIE-BARNETT CARRIES ON

Lucretia Tye Jasmine·August 6, 2020

She helped make her now-legendary husband David Bowie a star—managed his early career, shaped his Ziggy alter ego, even sewed his costumes—but had enough after 10 years and one child (film director Duncan Jones). When faced with what to do...

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SLASH RECORDS, OR LET’S HAVE A WAR

Tony Mostrom·August 5, 2020

Slash, the indispensable fanzine that charted the Los Angeles punk scene (1977-80), gave birth to a record label that pushed the punk boundaries well into the 1980s, releasing classic recordings by Fear, The Germs, Flesh Eaters, Gun Club and X...

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SUNSHINE WALKERS: KIMBERLEY REW & LEE CAVE-BERRY

Fiona McQuarrie·August 4, 2020

After stints in the Soft Boys (with Robyn Hitchcock) and Katrina and the Waves, Kimberley Rew has pursued a solo career and collaborated with bands in his hometown of Cambridge (UK). Lee Cave-Berry has, likewise, played bass with many Cambridge-area...

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PETER GREEN: THE END OF THE GAME (RIP)

Gary Lucas·August 3, 2020

Peter Green, inheritor of Eric Clapton’s spot in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and co-founder of Fleetwood Mac, was, said B.B. King, ‘the only guitarist who gives me the cold sweats.’ Renowned guitarist Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, et al) was...

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THE GHASTLY ONE: JIMMY MCDONOUGH TALKS ABOUT ANDY MILLIGAN AND HIS TRANSGRESSIVE CINEMA

Eric Davidson·July 30, 2020

Jimmy McDonough is best-known for his exhaustive bios of Neil Young (Shakey), Tammy Wynette (Tragic Country Queen) and Russ Meyer (Big Bosoms and Square Jaws), but his first published book, The Ghastly One, about Andy Milligan, the disturbed auteur of...

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BLOOD NOT SO SIMPLE: CHARLES HARRELSON, WOODY’S DAD

David Stewart·July 29, 2020

Charles Harrelson, father of the actor Woody Harrelson, was a card hustler, a self-proclaimed “hit man” and a convicted murderer of a federal judge. A 10-part podcast about the career of the elder Harrelson, Son of a Hitman, is currently...

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THE DAWNING OF AQUARIUS: AN L.A. ARTIST REVISITS THE 1960S

Amy Haben·July 28, 2020

The Sixties never died, at least not on the palette of Dawn Aquarius. Steeped in the music, lore, visuals, fashions, and vibes of that decade, the 37-year-old Los Angeles artist has been turning heads with her personalized take on that...

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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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