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PETER LAUGHNER: AN UNFINISHED LIFE

Todd McGovern·May 23, 2019

Cleveland’s vital and unsung punk scene would not be complete without a chapter on Peter Laughner. Laughner, who died in 1977 at the age of 24, co-founded legendary bands Rocket from the Tombs and Pere Ubu, among others. An amazing...

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Q: WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT NOISE? A: XTC!

Amanda Sheppard·May 22, 2019

Mark Fisher explores the unique appeal of XTC’s musical legacy in What Do You Call That Noise?: An XTC Discovery Book. PKM’s Amanda Sheppard talked to Fisher about the book, the band and their brilliant creative core of Andy Partridge,...

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JOHNNY THUNDERS: THE RAVEN BOY

Bebe Buell·May 21, 2019

When she first saw Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls, Bebe Buell thought of him as a “charismatic ball of fire with the best hair in rock n’ roll”. She stayed in touch with him over the years, despite...

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SHE SHOT ANDY WARHOLS: THE DIRTY LIFE & CRIMES OF DOROTHY PODBER

Burt Kearns·May 20, 2019

She called it ‘performance art’ when, in 1964, she casually strolled into Andy Warhol’s Factory, pulled out a handgun and shot a bullet through four paintings of Marilyn Monroe, then strolled back outside. This wasn’t Dorothy Podber’s only claim to...

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THE POETRY PROJECT LEAVES THE LIGHTS ON

Stacy Szymaszek·May 17, 2019

For 52 years, poets have gathered at this public forum in and around the Bowery, to read, listen, learn and inspire. The first ‘church’ of verse, located at 131 East 10th Street, has recently had a changing of the guard,...

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TOUCHED BY MARLON BRANDO

Pamela Des Barres·May 16, 2019

After the heady days of the GTOs and a break up with Don Johnson, our Pamela became fixated on/with Marlon Brando and began writing him love letters and leaving messages on his answering machine. One night, he picked up the...

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JANET HOUSDEN: STRAIGHT OUTTA SOUTH BAY PUNK

Robin Crane·May 15, 2019

A fixture in the earliest days of the LA area punk scene, Janet Housden played drums with Redd Kross and was a member of several other bands, while also appearing in classic cult films. A great storyteller, she has weathered...

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ROCK & ROLL: IS ‘MAKING IT’ A THING ANYMORE?

Harrison Connery·May 14, 2019

With Spotify, Bandcamp, iTunes, Facebook, YouTube, and personal blogs, it has never been easier to make music and get it out to the public. The flip side of that is this: It has never been harder to make money off...

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NEVER IDLE IDOL: NIKKI CORVETTE JUST KEEPS ROLLING

Eric Davidson·May 9, 2019

Nikki imagined the Corvettes to be the Shangri-meet-The-Ramones—bubblegum punk, for lack of a better term. Her longevity, kindred spirits (from Blondie and the Dolls to the Stooges and the Dead Boys) and tireless devotion to rock & roll has paved...

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FROM ROLLING THUNDER TO STUBBORN HEART: LARRY “RATSO” SLOMAN TELLS ALL

Todd McGovern·May 8, 2019

The resume of Larry “Ratso” Sloman is epic: editor of National Lampoon, collaborator with John Cale and Lou Reed, a member of Bob Dylan’s traveling carnival known as the Rolling Thunder Revue, ghostwriter for Howard Stern, Mike Tyson, Anthony Kiedis...

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Women of Rock Unite!: Oral History Project founder/director Tanya Pearson Explains How

Sharon M. Hannon·May 7, 2019

Frustrated over a lack of sources about women rock musicians, a Smith College grad student decided to go to the sources themselves. Five years later, Tanya Pearson—writer, musician, archivist—has amassed a world-class archive of digital interviews and transcripts and is...

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Janne Robinson: This Poet Will Never be Well Behaved

Benito Vila·May 6, 2019

The Canadian poet and surfer has ridden a wild wave from loner iconoclast to ‘woman of distinction,’ influencing dialogues young women around the world are having with one another. Her collection This Is for the Women Who Don’t Give a...

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SON OF A GUN: NEAL CASSADY’S SON JOHN TELLS ALL

Laura Marie Braun·May 2, 2019

John Allen Cassady, now 67, reflects on growing up with the king of the counterculture, the inspiration for Dean Moriarty in On the Road, the driver of Kesey’s Merry Prankster bus. It was a lot more stable of a childhood...

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Duke Ellington at The Hurricane Club in 1943

ARCHITECT OF STARDOM: IRVING MILLS AND DUKE ELLINGTON

Tosh Berman·May 1, 2019

His “Elvis” was Duke Ellington, but he did far more than manage the careers of the Duke, Cab Calloway and Hoagy Carmichael. Irving Mills got his hand in every aspect of the music business—managing, publishing, recording and leading his own...

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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 LAUGHNER: AN UNFINISHED LIFE

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