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UNMASKED: THE PHANTOM SURFERS’ JOHNNY BARTLETT HANGS TEN

Anthony Petkovich·May 26, 2020

San Francisco’s longest surviving (and only masked!) instrumental surf band, The Phantom Surfers, have been riding the various musical waves since 1988, in that time amassing an international following while carrying the torch for surf music. They name check Dick...

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ALL THE YOUNG DROOGS: MONKEY FROM THE ADICTS SPEAKS

Amy Haben·May 25, 2020

Part of the first wave of punk bands in the U.K., the Adicts hit their stride in the 1980s and never looked back. Still active and still sporting garb from the rack of Clockwork Orange, the Adicts played in New...

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JOHN DOE: X MARKS THE SPOT

Robert Gourley·May 21, 2020

One of the breakout bands from L.A.’s original punk scene, X has just released ALPHABETLAND, its first album with the original lineup since 1985. The album arrives on the 40th anniversary of their debut, Los Angeles, and is as fresh and...

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LITTLE RICHARD: THE ORIGINAL PUNK

Parke Puterbaugh·May 20, 2020

Rock ‘n’ roll lost one of its true originals last week, when Richard Penniman, the incomparable Little Richard, shuffled off this mortal coil. He was one of the few remaining entertainment figures of any medium or musical genre who was...

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ESCAPE FROM VIETNAM: AN ISLAND OF PEACE IN THE MIDDLE OF A COMBAT ZONE

David Stewart·May 19, 2020

At the height of the Vietnam War, a renegade monk created a haven for peace on an island in the middle of the Mekong Delta. Deserters from all sides of the conflict found refuge there. Among those who regularly visited...

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FAREWELL, GEM SPA: AN EAST VILLAGE INSTITUTION BITES THE DUST

Larry Baumhor·May 18, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is not just killing and sickening people; it’s decimating small businesses, some with storied histories. Few Lower East Side businesses had a more storied history than Gem Spa, the home of egg creams and countercultural rebellion. Everyone...

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THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW #4: BRIAN ENO

Billy Hough·May 14, 2020

When “Eno is God” started appearing in spray paint all over NYC in the 70’s, most people were mystified. Those who were not, however, were familiar with the small-in-stature, huge-in-output genius behind Roxy Music’s otherworldly sound, David Bowie’s “Berlin Trilogy” and...

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SAVAGE IMPRESSIONS: BRUCE LICHER & INDEPENDENT PROJECT RECORDS

Richie Unterberger·May 13, 2020

Bruce Licher’s rise to the top of post-punk graphic design began in 1980 as a means to package the music for his own bands, Project 197 and Savage Republic. Gradually, his “handmade” style—out of the ordinary, eye-catching graphics created on...

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REMEMBERING MICHAEL MCCLURE: THE REAL LIZARD KING

Tosh Berman·May 12, 2020

The late poet Michael McClure (1932-2020) was always associated with the original Beat circle of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Snyder, Ferlinghetti but he was so much more than that to Tosh Berman, who saw him as the rightful heir to Jim Morrison....

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AN ORIGINAL LOUNGE LIZARD & ‘STRAY MAN’: STEVE PICCOLO

Eric Davidson·May 11, 2020

The Lounge Lizards, an uncategorizable musical assemblage that formed in 1978, blazed a trail parallel to, but separate from, the punk scene taking place in New York at the same time. Steve Piccolo was one of the original five members...

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SHOOTING STIV BATORS AND LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH

Chris Epting·May 7, 2020

When he was a senior at Boston’s Emerson College in 1982, Chris Epting was enticed by members of Lords of the New Church (Stiv Bators, Brian James, Dave Tregunna, Nick Turner) to tag along on a short band tour with...

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BASEBALL BOOKS AND MOVIES TO HELP MAKE IT THROUGH THIS SEASON

Benito Vila·May 6, 2020

A summer without baseball is cruel and unusual, and probably unconstitutional too. More to the point, it is unthinkable. Therefore, PKM’s Alan Bisbort and Benito Vila choose not to think about it. Instead, we think of the present suspended state...

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MORE COWBELL!: JOE BOUCHARD TALKS BLUE ÖYSTER CULT AND BEYOND

Anthony Petkovich·May 5, 2020

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Joe Bouchard was an essential part of Blue Öyster Cult, the quintet from Long Island that, along with Alice Cooper, Flamin’ Groovies and the Dictators, kept the rock & roll flames alive before the punks started their bonfires. Composer of some...

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DENNIS HOPPER’S BLUE PERIOD: THE MAKING OF OUT OF THE BLUE (1980)

David Stewart·May 4, 2020

Dennis Hopper followed the success of Easy Rider (1969), which he directed and claims to have co-written, with the abject failure of The Last Movie (1971), a shambling, incoherent, drug-fueled epic set in Peru. He then spent the next decade...

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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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UNMASKED: THE PHANTOM SURFERS’ JOHNNY BARTLETT HANGS TEN

ALL THE YOUNG DROOGS: MONKEY FROM THE ADICTS SPEAKS

JOHN DOE: X MARKS THE SPOT

LITTLE RICHARD: THE ORIGINAL PUNK

ESCAPE FROM VIETNAM: AN ISLAND OF PEACE IN THE MIDDLE OF A COMBAT ZONE

FAREWELL, GEM SPA: AN EAST VILLAGE INSTITUTION BITES THE DUST

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW #4: BRIAN ENO

SAVAGE IMPRESSIONS: BRUCE LICHER & INDEPENDENT PROJECT RECORDS

REMEMBERING MICHAEL MCCLURE: THE REAL LIZARD KING

AN ORIGINAL LOUNGE LIZARD & ‘STRAY MAN’: STEVE PICCOLO

SHOOTING STIV BATORS AND LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH

BASEBALL BOOKS AND MOVIES TO HELP MAKE IT THROUGH THIS SEASON

MORE COWBELL!: JOE BOUCHARD TALKS BLUE ÖYSTER CULT AND BEYOND

DENNIS HOPPER’S BLUE PERIOD: THE MAKING OF OUT OF THE BLUE (1980)

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

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

THE KNACK … AND HOW TO GET IT: AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESCOTT NILES

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