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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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LISA FANCHER: STEERING PUNK’S FINAL FRONTIER IN LA

Tony Mostrom·February 3, 2020

Often overlooked by punk history’s gatekeepers, Lisa Fancher’s venerable Frontier Records label is celebrating 40 years of important punk rock releases. Without her there to release some of the first music by the Adolescents, Circle Jerks, Black Randy, Red Kross,...

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MISS PAMELA’S FAMILY SECRETS

Pamela Des Barres·January 30, 2020

Every family has its secrets and closeted skeletons, which remain locked up unless one of its members spills the beans. Pamela Des Barres’ mother, a down-to-earth beauty from Georgia, did just that to her daughter late in life—and long after...

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OUR FAVORITE PLAYGHOUL: VAMPIRA RISES AGAIN

Eric Davidson·January 29, 2020

Maila Nurmi, come on down! Mike Decay has turned his deep and abiding love for the now-iconic actress into a one-off publication called Playghoul, which is a chronological collection of clippings, photos, writings and other ephemera of the actress’s life...

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CAN’T FIND MY WAY HOME: OUR DRUG APOCALYPSE

Benito Vila·January 28, 2020

Punk’s holy trinity, if it has one, would be sex, drugs and rock & roll. For the past 30 years, author and filmmaker Martin Torgoff has examined the middle pillar of that trinity: Drugs. Torgoff believes the fascination with, and...

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JAYNE COUNTY: I DON’T FIT IN ANYWHERE

Jen B. Larson·January 27, 2020

Jayne County set a pre-punk standard for outrageous rock & roll stage antics and regalia with her then bands Wayne County & the Electric Chairs and Queen Elizabeth. Her goal, she boasted, was to “make Alice Cooper look like a...

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DAVE FAULKNER WAS A VICTIM BEFORE HE WAS A HOODOO GURU

Eric Davidson·January 23, 2020

Punk from Down Under too often gets short shrift in chronicles from the 1970s. One of the punkest of the original Aussie garage bands was The Victims, comprised of three iconoclastic teens from the isolated city of Perth in western...

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THE QUEEN OF THE AIR MEETS THE HOMICIDAL YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE

Burt Kearns·January 22, 2020

Circus performers were, in some ways, the punk rockers of their day, and nobody was more punk than Lillian Leitzel. Feisty, fearless, tiny and yet unbelievably talented as an aerialist, Lillian performed amazing stunts like the One-Armed Plange that no...

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HIT LIST: ROCK & ROLL AS A GRAPHIC NOVEL

Alan Bisbort·January 21, 2020

We love rock & roll, but learning how it’s produced, marketed and compromised for mass consumption is a bit like learning how sausage is made or cloth diapers are laundered. Jeff Rougvie, a former punk rock musician, graphic artist and...

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KINKY 101: LIFE ADVICE FROM DOMINATRIXES

Fiona McQuarrie·January 20, 2020

Financial journalist Lindsay Goldwert saw parallels between the work of dominatrixes and how all the rest of us live our lives. So, she went straight into the cage with the lionesses, so to speak, to find out if any of...

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JOHN PEEL: HIS LIFE AND MUSICAL LEGACY

Richie Unterberger·January 16, 2020

So revered in the UK that he made the top 50 in a BBC poll of ‘Greatest Britons of all time,’ John Peel (1939-2004) shaped popular culture in ways that Americans may never know or understand. As a pirate radio...

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TELSTAR: THE SONG, AND THE FUTURE THAT NEVER WAS

Charles Monagan·January 15, 2020

Working feverishly in his North London studio in 1962, Joe Meek created the sound of the space age and a tribute to the first global communications satellite, Telstar. Charles Monagan describes how the song perfectly captured the arrival of JFK,...

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DIANE NOOMIN: UNDERGROUND COMIX ARTIST GOES FROM TWISTED SISTER TO EMPOWERING WOMEN

Alan Bisbort·January 14, 2020

As co-editor (with Aline Kominsky-Crumb) of the all-female Twisted Sisters Comics in the 1970s and 1980s, Diane Noomin is one of the pioneering women cartoonists of her generation. Though she continues to publish her comic art, Noomin has been a...

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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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