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THE MURDER OF ALFALFA

Burt Kearns·August 27, 2019

Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer was the most popular star of the classic Our Gang comedies. But the facts of the Little Rascal’s untimely death have been clouded in Hollywood Babylon myth… until Burt Kearns & Jeff Abraham started digging. by Burt...

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JESSE MALIN: FROM D GENERATION TO REGENERATION

Todd McGovern·August 26, 2019

Like the Ramones, Jesse Malin grew up in Queens, one generation later. Steeped in Kiss, Elton John, The Who and the Stones, Malin had his head turned toward Manhattan, and CBGB, by the punk scene. From his earliest band, Heart...

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BLAZING AWAY WITH MARIANNE FAITHFULL: A 1989 FLASHBACK

Cree McCree·August 22, 2019

After a harrowing decade of personal and medical travails, Marianne Faithfull staged a remarkable musical comeback with the 1979 release of Broken English. Still battling her demons, Faithfull got fully sober in the mid-1980s and staged a grand personal comeback...

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COMPLIMENTS OF CHICAGO’S STREETS

Peter Pavia·August 21, 2019

A visually stunning new book details the history, rise and fall of “social athletic clubs” in Chicago, before the gang bangers made a mockery of the concept. More social club than criminal enterprise in the early days, the seeds of...

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LOST AND FOUND: JACKSON C. FRANK

Alan Bisbort·August 20, 2019

Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, Paul Simon, Sandy Denny, Al Stewart and others borrowed a few tunes (and whole dollops of melancholy) from this great songwriter. The life of Jackson C. Frank, who died 20 years ago, unfolded like a remake...

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GARY PANTER: LIFE AFTER PUNK & PEE WEE

Eric Davidson·August 19, 2019

Raised in Texas, artist Gary Panter moved to L.A. in the late 1970s and made an immediate mark on the L.A. punk scene with his now iconic poster for the Screamers, among many other fliers, posters and comic strips in...

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DUTCH NUGGETS: ORIGINAL 1960s’ ROCK & ROLL ‘ARTYFACTS’ THAT DEFY TIME

Richie Unterberger·August 14, 2019

You’ve heard of the British Invasion, right? Well, ‘the Dutch Invasion’ that followed did not exactly storm the beaches of the USA (outside of hit singles by Shocking Blue, Golden Earring and the Tee Set), but the music produced in...

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JERRY LEWIS, J.D. SALINGER & THE JEWISH HOLDEN CAULFIELD

Burt Kearns·August 12, 2019

There were once two men named Jerry: Salinger and Lewis. And one of them wrote a famous novel, Catcher In the Rye, which the other wanted to turn into a movie, starring himself as Holden Caulfield. Burt Kearns explains why...

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CHARLES MANSON’S SUMMER OF HATE

Tony Mostrom·August 9, 2019

Fifty years ago, an ex-con, wannabe rock star named Charles Manson channeled all the paranoia, fear and hatred hovering around Los Angeles into a murder spree that altered the course of American counterculture, for worse or worse. One thing that’s...

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FRAME OF MIND: 20 YEARS OF THE DC MUSIC SCENE

Sharon M. Hannon·August 8, 2019

When Antonia Tricarico moved from her native Italy to Washington D.C. in 1997, she felt a kinship with the city’s underground music scene, which had roots in the DIY harDCore scene of the 1980s. Having been steeped in the punk...

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BE KIND TO ME: THE MUSIC AND ART OF MICHAEL HURLEY

Gregory Daurer·August 7, 2019

Michael Hurley could be called the godfather, or grandfather, of ‘freak-folk” but the Oregon-based singer, songwriter, artist and storyteller’s roots go back to his childhood in rural Pennsylvania and early forays into New York City, where he found kindred spirits...

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HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN: J.G. BALLARD IN THE 1970s

Jeremy Reed·August 6, 2019

The novelist J.G. Ballard created language so unique that, according to renowned poet and novelist Jeremy Reed, he was like “a tourist from the future whose themes were too far ahead of British fiction for their exhaust trail to be...

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FAKEWOOD MAC: THE UNREAL FLEETWOOD MAC, 1974

Fiona McQuarrie·August 5, 2019

There are some who’d say the “real” Fleetwood Mac ended when Peter Green left the band for good in 1972, but what happened two years later was something else entirely. It was one of the strangest situations in pop music...

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MANCHESTER’S UNITED: BUZZCOCKS’ STEVE DIGGLE SPEAKS HIS MIND

Amy Haben·August 1, 2019

The brainy and witty Buzzcocks guitarist Steve Diggle opens up about the origins of punk in Manchester, the band’s working-class roots, the need to be genuine, his friend and partner, the late Pete Shelley, friendships with Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder,...

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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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