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LYDIA LUNCH: PATHOLOGICAL TRUTH TELLER

Jen B. Larson·November 7, 2019

After 42 years of performance art, music, photography and so much more, Lydia Lunch has seemingly put it in hyperdrive. New York University just purchased her archive, a documentary film about her life and career is premiering this week and...

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BJ PAPAS: FROM NY HARDCORE TO LA PUNK – SHE’S SHOT THEM ALL

Sharon M. Hannon·November 6, 2019

Photographer BJ Papas started out shooting the New York hardcore scene—bands like Agnostic Front, the Bad Brains and their audiences. A fan and friend of the bands, she started going to hardcore Sunday matinees at CBGB when she was in...

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ROBERT ALTMAN: THE SECRET HONOR OF EXILE

Alan Bisbort·November 5, 2019

A completely overlooked 1984 Robert Altman film, with an Oscar-caliber performance by Philip Baker Hall, is the perfect accompaniment to events transpiring in the U.S. on this Election Day. Altman may have made more bad films than any other great...

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JULIANA HATFIELD COVERS OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN AND THE POLICE

Robert Gourley·November 4, 2019

The Boston-based singer and songwriter—who has played with the Blake Babies and the Lemonheads—has carved out a multifaceted solo career since the early 1990s. In addition to her most recent solo albums, Pussycat (2017) and Weird (2019), she has also...

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WHEN NUBIA KICKED EGYPTIAN ASS

Alan Bisbort·November 1, 2019

Ancient Nubia Now, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is a game-changer. The exhibition, on view through January, may even make you rethink how we all got here. Sometimes, when you least expect it, a film or an...

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PANYC ATTACK: CAMILLA SALY’S LIVING HISTORY OF NYC PUNK

Eric Davidson·October 30, 2019

Camilla Saly turned her wild stories of a misspent youth in punk bars, and their eventual boxes of ephemeral proof, into the Punk Archives NYC, a developing online database for collectors of punk artifacts related to the city. Camilla talked...

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FROM MINUTEMEN TO MISSINGMEN: MIKE WATT AND FRIENDS CARRY ON

Amanda Sheppard·October 29, 2019

Mike Watt is the Dale Carnegie of rock & roll. He has made more friends and influenced more people than any living bass man, collaborating with everyone from Iggy Pop and J. Mascis to Kathleen Hanna and the late Daniel...

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LISA LAW: CAPTURING THE SIXTIES AND BEYOND WITH HER TRUTH-TELLING CAMERA

Benito Vila·October 28, 2019

Lisa Law and her camera, Dennis Hopper once said, caught “everyone” in the Sixties from the Beatles, Dylan and the Byrds to the Velvet Underground, Kesey, Krassner and the Dead. She was also “everywhere” in that time, from the Sunset...

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NICO: THERE SHE GOES AGAIN, A MEDITATION ON DEATH, BEAUTY AND ARTISTRY

Billy Hough·October 24, 2019

Nico (Christa Paffgen) was many things to many different people, including Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan, Alain Delon and numerous other collaborators. But to performance artist Billy Hough, Nico was “the most underrated/overexposed tornado in the Holy...

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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO BLIND JOE DEATH: JOHN FAHEY IN FOUR MOVEMENTS

Cree McCree·October 23, 2019

John Fahey (1939-2001) was one of the most original composer/guitarists of the late 20th century and yet he traveled under the radar of anyone but the most intrepid fans of the avant garde. A guitar prodigy out of Takoma Park,...

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ROGER CORMAN MEETS H.P. LOVECRAFT AND CTHULHU!

Lisa Sumner·October 22, 2019

Portland, Oregon was the site of this years H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon. Roger Corman and Vincent Price’s daughter, Victoria Price, were the honored guests, and iconoclast filmmaker Richard Stanley made an appearance. They did not disappoint. Horror film...

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ENTERING FREAK CITY: HANGING OUT WITH HARRY CREWS

Gary Lippman·October 21, 2019

The hardnosed, hard-living Southern writer once dubbed himself ‘Freak City’ and, despite a lifestyle (booze, drugs, fistfights, etc.) that would have floored most other people, kept a teaching gig at the University of Florida for nearly 40 years while also...

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GEORGE HODEL’S EXQUISITE CORPSE(S): BEYOND THE BLACK DAHLIA

Zack Kopp·October 17, 2019

Former LAPD detective and prolific true-crime author Steve Hodel has pursued the Black Dahlia murder for years. The trail to that gruesome 1947 killing led him to investigate other famous crimes, such as Lipstick Murders and Zodiac Killings. The darkest...

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THE JOY OF DESOLATION: TAKING PUNK ROCK TO THE DESERT

Richie Unterberger·October 16, 2019

Putting on punk shows in Los Angeles in the early 1980s became near to impossible with the lack of venues and police harassment of those events that did manage to find one. So a young promoter, Stuart Swezey, took bands...

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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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LYDIA LUNCH: PATHOLOGICAL TRUTH TELLER

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