All Please Kill Me Posts Archives

The latest articles on PleaseKillMe.com – music, art, culture, fashion, poetry and movies from the 60s through today. This Is What’s Cool!

THE COCKETTES: CONJURING MAGICK IN SAN FRANCISCO AND TAKING IT ON THE ROAD TO NYC

Fayette Hauser·April 20, 2020

The Cockettes were a “hippie theater group” formed in 1969 and based in and around Haight-Ashbury. The group was comprised of artists, performers, singers, dancers and “freaks” inspired by The Living Theater, John Vaccaro’s Play House of the Ridiculous, Jack...

All Please Kill Me Posts Books History Interviews

·1 Comment

HAL WILLNER, AMERICAN VISIONARY

John Kruth·April 16, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has killed thousands of people worldwide, each a tragedy to their friends and families. But the music world has lost some giants, too, including John Prine, Wallace Roney, Ellis Marsalis Jr., Bucky Pizzarelli, Cristina and, last but...

All Please Kill Me Posts Cool People Musicians R.I.P.TV

·0 Comments

PETER TOWNSHEND, KEN RUSSELL & TOMMY THE MOVIE 45 YEARS LATER

David Stewart·April 15, 2020

The Who’s 1969 double-album Tommy is generally considered the first ‘rock opera’ (cases could, of course, be made for S.F. Sorrow by the Pretty Things or Village Green Preservation Society by the Kinks). The story of a deaf, dumb and...

All Please Kill Me Posts Film History

·4 Comments

WERE WE ALL BRAINWASHED BY THE CIA WITH SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK & ROLL?

Joseph L. Flatley·April 14, 2020

Did you know that LSD and hippies were invented by the CIA in the 1960s? No? Well, the idea was to hook kids on sex, drugs and rock & roll (hey, it worked!), so they would not overthrow the military...

All Please Kill Me Posts Best Of History Joseph L. Flatley Musicians

·15 Comments

REBEL WITH A CAUSE: A DAUGHTER’S TAKE ON THE LEGEND OF NICHOLAS RAY

Benito Vila·April 13, 2020

As a film director, Nicholas Ray made some memorable films, like They Live by Night, In a Lonely Place and, of course, Rebel Without a Cause. As a father, he was also memorable, but for all the wrong reasons, most...

All Please Kill Me Posts Benito Vila Film History Interviews

·1 Comment

JOHN LEE HOOKER: THE KING OF THE BOOGIE

Cree McCree·April 9, 2020

Born in the Mississippi Delta, the son of a sharecropping pastor, John Lee Hooker absorbed the blues of that region before heading north and picking up an electric guitar. That was a seminal moment in music history, as his driving...

All Please Kill Me Posts Cool People History Interviews Musicians

·0 Comments

DO YOU RESPECT (ED) WOOD? A PRIMER ON THE ‘WORST DIRECTOR OF ALL TIME’

Tony Mostrom·April 8, 2020

The real-life Edward D. Wood, Jr. was far more interesting than the character depicted by Johnny Depp in the 1994 Tim Burton campy Ed Wood. Yes, Wood was a seriously bad film director who made seriously bad films filled with...

All Please Kill Me Posts Anthony Mostrom Film History

·1 Comment

BILLY HOUGH: THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PATTI SMITH’S HORSES ALBUM

Billy Hough·April 7, 2020

Billy Hough tackles Patti Smith’s Horses in 3 minutes Legs McNeil gave Billy Hough three minutes to unpack as much information about some of his favorite things as he could. “Things You Should Know” is shot live in Provincetown, and gives...

All Please Kill Me Posts Billy Hough History PKM TV Things You Should Know VIDEO

·0 Comments

MUSCLE SHOALS: SOUL MUSIC FOR THIS TIME OF ISOLATION-A SINGER’S LOVE LETTER IN SONG

Christine Ohlman·April 6, 2020

Christine Ohlman, the Beehive Queen, is not just a great singer. She’s also a record collector and an archaeologist of American song, diving deep into the roots of our songbook to find the nuggets and share them with her audiences....

All Please Kill Me Posts Christine Ohlman History Musicians

·1 Comment

A RIOT GRRRL PRIMER: REVOLUTION GIRL STYLE NOW

Sharon M. Hannon·April 2, 2020

As Bikini Kill makes plans for their first tour in 23 years, PKM revisits the roots of the Riot Grrrl movement that the band helped bring to life. Sharon M. Hannon has prepared an annotated timeline of events and red-letter...

All Please Kill Me Posts Art Best Of Cool People History Musicians Sharon M. Hannon

·2 Comments

THE SOUND OF PHILADELPHIA: RIDING THE CAMEO PARKWAY WITH JOE RENZETTI

Richie Unterberger·April 1, 2020

Philadelphia’s relatively short-lived (1956-1967) Cameo-Parkway label never got the attention of contemporaneous labels like Motown, Chess, Stax, Scepter/Wand or Excello. But, like Motown and Stax, it had a major impact beyond its own homegrown “sound” and dance hits by Chubby...

All Please Kill Me Posts History Interviews Musicians Richie Unterberger

·2 Comments

BASIL WOLVERTON: AMERICA’S WEIRDEST ARTIST

Alan Bisbort·March 31, 2020

Cartoonist Basil Wolverton (1909-1978) cast a large, if sometimes unrecognized, shadow over the underground comix of the 1960s and punk graphics of the 1970s and 1980s. Robert Crumb and his two cartooning brothers were smitten with his work in MAD...

Alan Bisbort All Please Kill Me Posts Art Best Of History

·1 Comment

OUT TO SEA WITH THE OUTLAW COUNTRY CRUISE

Larry Ratso Sloman·March 30, 2020

In our collective younger and more innocent days of three months ago, the cruise industry was a going concern. Despite his lifelong avoidance of cruising, Larry “Ratso” Sloman could not resist stowing away, with his wife, on the most recent...

All Please Kill Me Posts Larry “Ratso” Sloman

·1 Comment

CHIP TAYLOR: THE HAPPY GAMBLER

Michael Shelley·March 26, 2020

Chip Taylor followed an unorthodox path to late-career musical success. Though born and raised in tony Westchester County, he began his career in his late teens by writing country music hits for the likes of Chet Atkins, then turned his...

All Please Kill Me Posts Cool People History Interviews Michael Shelley

·1 Comment

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!

All Posts

ORK RECORDS: STARTING AN INDIE-ROCK REVOLUTION ONE SINGLE AT A TIME

Paulo César Gadioli: How PKM Changed My Life

THE STOOGES – PART 1: THE THREE CHORD TRAIN TO HELL

Best Of

THE STOOGES – PART 1: THE THREE CHORD TRAIN TO HELL

DAVID GODLIS: THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHER AT CBGB

PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF PKM FOR 2021, PART II

THE LONESOME DEATH OF DANNY RAPP: THE FRONT MAN FOR DANNY & THE JUNIORS

EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: ROCK & ROLL WAS INVENTED IN WILDWOOD, NEW JERSEY! – BY DEKE DICKERSON

THE HISTORY OF SAMUEL L. JACKSON’S FAVORITE WORD AND ITS IMPACT ON POPULAR CULTURE

All Please Kill Me Posts

THE COCKETTES: CONJURING MAGICK IN SAN FRANCISCO AND TAKING IT ON THE ROAD TO NYC

HAL WILLNER, AMERICAN VISIONARY

PETER TOWNSHEND, KEN RUSSELL & TOMMY THE MOVIE 45 YEARS LATER

WERE WE ALL BRAINWASHED BY THE CIA WITH SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK & ROLL?

REBEL WITH A CAUSE: A DAUGHTER’S TAKE ON THE LEGEND OF NICHOLAS RAY

JOHN LEE HOOKER: THE KING OF THE BOOGIE

DO YOU RESPECT (ED) WOOD? A PRIMER ON THE ‘WORST DIRECTOR OF ALL TIME’

BILLY HOUGH: THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PATTI SMITH’S HORSES ALBUM

MUSCLE SHOALS: SOUL MUSIC FOR THIS TIME OF ISOLATION-A SINGER’S LOVE LETTER IN SONG

A RIOT GRRRL PRIMER: REVOLUTION GIRL STYLE NOW

THE SOUND OF PHILADELPHIA: RIDING THE CAMEO PARKWAY WITH JOE RENZETTI

BASIL WOLVERTON: AMERICA’S WEIRDEST ARTIST

OUT TO SEA WITH THE OUTLAW COUNTRY CRUISE

CHIP TAYLOR: THE HAPPY GAMBLER

ORK RECORDS: STARTING AN INDIE-ROCK REVOLUTION ONE SINGLE AT A TIME

Paulo César Gadioli: How PKM Changed My Life

THE STOOGES – PART 1: THE THREE CHORD TRAIN TO HELL

NATALIE STOOGELING: THE FAN, THE LEGEND, THE PKM INTERVIEW

DAVID GODLIS: THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHER AT CBGB