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PETER AARON OF THE CHROME CRANKS CELEBRATES CINCINNATI’S ‘UNDERGROUND SOUNDS’

Eric Davidson·December 4, 2019

Peter Aaron moved to Cincinnati (aka ‘the Queen City,’ ‘Cinci-tucky’) from New Jersey as a teenager and quickly found kindred punk-rock spirits. In 1988, he revved up a band called the Chrome Cranks which cut its collective teeth in Cincy,...

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GARLAND JEFFREYS: THE KING OF IN BETWEEN

Robert Gourley·December 3, 2019

The talented singer, songwriter and performer was friends and collaborators with both Lou Reed and John Cale before embarking on a solo career that has spanned more than four decades. Though the biracial Brooklyn native ended his live music career...

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LOOKING BACK AT 1973…AND THE ROOTS OF PUNK

Andrew Grant Jackson·December 2, 2019

On Tuesday, Thomas Dunne Books, a St. Martin’s imprint, releases 1973: Rock at the Crossroads, a deep 347-page dive into that year’s music biz and music scene by Andrew Grant Jackson. In the excerpt below–kindly offered to PKM by the...

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SWANS DIVE AGAIN: MICHAEL GIRA, SACRIFICE AND TRANSCENDENCE

Amanda Sheppard·November 27, 2019

The legendary musical outfit Swans—a revolving cast of inspired players centered around Michael Gira—has resurfaced with a new album, Leaving Meaning, and an upcoming 2020 tour. In his conversation with Amanda Sheppard, Gira covers much of the ground of his...

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LYDIA LUNCH’S WAR IS NEVER OVER

Amy Haben·November 26, 2019

As part of the No Wave group Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Lydia Lunch (nee Koch) made her early mark on the NYC scene at around the same time the punk movement was getting started. After her short-lived group Eight...

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WELCOME TO THE TRIDENT: WHERE YOU COULD GET ANYTHING YOU WANT

Benito Vila·November 25, 2019

From its waterfront perch in Sausalito, the Trident’s clientele could see the San Francisco skyline and the Golden Gate Bridge. The club/restaurant was “a trippy space ship” whose passengers just happened to be a Who’s Who of rock & roll...

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MILES DAVIS: A CONCERTO OF CONVERSATION WITH DAVID AMRAM

Paul Maher, Jr·November 21, 2019

The public saw one Miles Davis (1926-1991) but his fellow musicians caught rare glimpses of the real person. David Amram, composer, musician and raconteur, stayed close to the legendary trumpeter from the mid-1950s until the end of his life. He...

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SHOT IN THE DARK: THE PUNK PHOTOGRAPHY OF DAVID ARNOFF

Eric Davidson·November 20, 2019

Born and raised in Cleveland, photographer David Arnoff was dragged by his family to Los Angeles as a teenager. Luckily, he brought a darker “Rust Belt” sensibility to sunny SoCal and began taking shots of the local rock scene before,...

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DYLAN THOMAS MEETS JOHN CALE: A TALE OF TWO WELSHMEN

Alan Bisbort·November 19, 2019

Dylan Thomas died 66 years ago last Saturday. The Welsh poet is known as much for the theatrical readings of his own poems as he is for his prodigious drinking. What isn’t really appreciated, perhaps, is how much of an...

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ROGER C. REALE & RUE MORGUE: PUNK-POP PIONEERS BACK FROM THE DEAD

Jim Allen·November 18, 2019

Forty years ago, punk/power-pop disciple Roger C. Reale enlisted the aid of guitar wizards G.E. Smith, Jimmy McAllister and Mick Ronson and drummer Hilly Michaels (Sparks) to create two minor masterpieces of rock & roll madness. But then…nothing happened. Yes,...

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THEE BIRD MAN: RIC OCASEK

Bebe Buell·November 14, 2019

Ever since Ric Ocasek died two months ago (on Sept. 15), Bebe Buell has been trying to process the loss of one of her dearest friends and the guiding force of her own musical career. Even while Ocasek was steering...

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FACE IT: DEBBIE HARRY HAS HAD A HAPPY AND LUCKY LIFE

Elizabeth Hand·November 13, 2019

Elizabeth Hand, a much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, offers an appraisal of Debbie Harry’s new memoir and discovers that the Blondie icon is really ’the girl next door’ who just happened to influence a legion of musical progeny. Hand also suggests...

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THE DEATH OF COUNTRY DICK MONTANA & THE BALLAD OF DAN MCLAIN

Burt Kearns·November 12, 2019

Once described as ‘half Waylon and half Johnny Rotten,’ Dan McLain was a mortal drummer from San Diego who transformed himself into Country Dick Montana, driving force for the Beat Farmers and Pleasure Barons. It was while performing with the...

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LHASA DE SELA MATTERS

Fiona McQuarrie·November 11, 2019

Beautiful but uncategorizable music flowed through Lhasa de Sela (1972-2010), whose itinerant, off-the-grid childhood with spiritually-inclined parents allowed her to “fit in everywhere and nowhere.” Though she only released five albums before her early death, Lhasa was able to meld...

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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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PETER AARON OF THE CHROME CRANKS CELEBRATES CINCINNATI’S ‘UNDERGROUND SOUNDS’

GARLAND JEFFREYS: THE KING OF IN BETWEEN

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