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THE FEELIES: GLENN MERCER ON HIS BAND AND THOSE CRAZY RHYTHMS

Alan Bisbort·February 27, 2020

The Village Voice, during punk’s heyday, called The Feelies “the best underground band in New York.” But, outside of some tracks for Ork Records and a single (“Fa Ce La”) on Rough Trade, the New Jersey-based band didn’t release their...

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WELCOME TO BOB BERT’S BATHTUB

Amy Haben·February 26, 2020

In The Bathtub, filmmaker Dylan Mars Greenberg has placed Bob Bert, the drummer for Sonic Youth (among many other bands), inside a quirky, funny, animated filmscape as he takes a mental tour of life in the big city. Greenberg explained...

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HEAVY RAIN: THE EXODUS OF LEE ‘SCRATCH’ PERRY

Amanda Sheppard·February 25, 2020

If there was a Mount Rushmore for reggae, Lee “Scratch” Perry’s would be one of faces carved on it. The producer-songwriter-musician-singer, now 83, rose through the ranks of the Jamaican music industry, working with other Rushmore candidates like Coxsone Dodd,...

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HANK RANK ON CRIME, DANIEL JOHNSTON, BILL NYE & SHUT UP, LITTLE MAN!

Gregory Daurer·February 24, 2020

Henry Rosenthal might just be West Coast punk’s Renaissance Man. One-time drummer for the legendary S.F. punk band Crime, he has had an amazingly varied creative career. Before his life of Crime, he was part of an avant garde musical...

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THE ENDLESS SUMMER OF JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD, ARTIST AND PUZZLE MASTER

Benito Vila·February 20, 2020

John Van Hamersveld is an art-school-trained modernist with roots in the California surf culture who was set loose in psychedelia, which he called “hippie modernism.” In 1964, he quickly made his name as the designer of the now iconic Endless...

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MOOGS, THEREMINS, AND LSD: LOTHAR & THE HAND PEOPLE’S SUBVERSIVE PSYCHEDELIA

Jim Allen·February 19, 2020

While Hendrix, Morrison and Joplin were setting the musical tone for 1960s counterculture, Denver-based Lothar & The Hand People were following the lead of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Leon Theremin and Robert Moog, all the while fueled by Tim Leary’s LSD flooding...

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THE KING OF FUH: BRUTE FORCE MEETS THE BEATLES

Alan Bisbort·February 18, 2020

Stephen Friedland began his music career in the early 1960s as an in-house songwriter for the BT Puppy record label in New York, penning hits for Chubby Checker, Little Peggy March and the Chiffons. His own demos of his songs...

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BRIAN JONES: A DEGREE OF MURDER

Richie Unterberger·February 17, 2020

Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones’ troubled but gifted guitarist and blues maven, made a few attempts to find life outside the celebrated rock & roll band. One nearly forgotten project was the composition of soundtrack music for a 1967 German...

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CAROL KAYE: THE BOSS OF THE BASS GUITAR

Michael Shelley·February 12, 2020

Carol Kaye started as a jazz solo guitarist, working the club scene of 1950s LA, when she was asked to work on some studio tracks for Sam Cooke. Though she loved the bebop jazz scene, Carol was a single mother...

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MARSHALL CRENSHAW IS HAVING ANOTHER FIELD DAY

Eric Davidson·February 11, 2020

The master of power pop burst on the scene in 1982 with a debut album that turned heads and ears, spawning rave reviews and respectable enough sales to suggest a star was born. But then, in the post-punk shuffle, Crenshaw’s...

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SEARCH & DESTROY: UNDERGROUND ART AND PUNK IN SAN FRANCISCO

Zack Kopp·February 10, 2020

Search & Destroy, a visually arresting San Francisco punk zine, began publishing in 1976, and quickly set a standard for D.I.Y. graphics and attitude. Taking its name from a Stooges song and documenting the fledgling West Coast punk scene, Search...

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THE LATE JOHNNY STRIKE: ONE FROM THE HEART

Anthony Petkovich·February 6, 2020

A close friend and cohort in chaos, Anthony Petkovich remembers Crime founding member Johnny Strike (Gary John Bassett). He describes his first Mabuhay Gardens Crime gig, his later working alongside Strike at a San Francisco methadone clinic and some of...

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PENELOPE SPHEERIS: FILMING ROCK & ROLL

Nora Novak·February 5, 2020

Penelope Spheeris jolted the cinema world with her debut feature The Decline of Western Civilization in 1981, a blistering look at the LA punk scene, and then continued that theme in Suburbia (1983), about abandoned kids living in abandoned houses...

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DEMOLITION DOLL RODS: HIGH ENERGY DETROIT MUSCLE FOR HARD TIMES

Todd McGovern·February 4, 2020

The garage rock trio Demolition Doll Rods take their Detroit roots seriously. Citing the Stooges and MC5 as their touchstones, the band plays the kind of stripped-down (literally) rock & roll that would bring misfortune to the ears of Frank...

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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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