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Boom: The Second Coming of The Sonics

Amanda Sheppard·April 8, 2019

A new documentary on legendary band The Sonics by Jordan Albertsen opens a window on the rich and influential legacy of garage rock in the Pacific Northwest, and the role of visionary label owner and manager Buck Ormsby in shaping...

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MANSON: THE LOST VACAVILLE TAPES

PKM Editor·April 5, 2019

Before he was the hippie antichrist, Manson was just another music industry hanger-on in L.A., friend of the Beach Boys, Neil Young and others. After his infamy, he continued to write and record his songs in prison, including these tapes...

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DAVID GODLIS: THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHER AT CBGB

Eric Davidson·April 4, 2019

Because he brought a street photographer’s eye to the party, Godlis captured New York’s early punk scene at its most raw and humane. His shots of the CBGB scene are some of the most interesting on record, but Godlis continued...

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Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider

WHO WROTE EASY RIDER?

Alan Bisbort·April 3, 2019

On the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking film, which made a star of Jack Nicholson, rekindled the careers of Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda, and proved again that Terry Southern was the catalyst that made this cinematic experiment work, it...

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SCOTT WALKER: MAN OF MYSTERY

Tosh Berman·April 2, 2019

The enigmatic, fascinating composer and singer Scott Walker (1943-2019), who died last month, left a body of work that will take years to fully absorb. Starting as a pop idol with The Walker Brothers, he did to pop music what...

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ELVIS OR ORION?: A STAR IS REBORN

Sam Carlson·April 1, 2019

Sixty-five years ago this summer, Sun Records released a single (“That’s All Right” b/w “Blue Moon of Kentucky”) that paved the way to rock & roll’s throne for its singer. Forty-five years ago, Sun Records released a second version of...

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INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT: THE FACTS ABOUT WAX TRAX! RECORDS

Robert Gourley·March 28, 2019

Not many record stores had their own label, and not many stores could have touched the lives of people like Peter Murphy, David J, Ian MacKaye and Trent Reznor long before they were famous. But Chicago’s Wax Trax! did just...

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LOST AND FOUND: SANDY DENNY

Alan Bisbort·March 26, 2019

Sandy Denny (1947-1978) had one of the most remarkable voices in British folk-rock as well as superior songwriting skills, but her darker impulses got the best of her, cutting short a promising career at age 31. Still, her work with...

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LOOKING FOR STIV BATORS

Eric Davidson·March 25, 2019

In his fifth documentary, filmmaker Danny “Looking for Johnny” Garcia takes a deep dive into the life and legacy of the Dead Boys front man. Included in STIV is some rare footage and lore about Stiv’s surprising career before and...

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KURT VONNEGUT’S CRUSADE

Alan Bisbort·March 21, 2019

50 years after the publication of the now literary (and film) classic Slaughterhouse-Five, our editor Alan Bisbort looks back on some of his personal encounters with Vonnegut, and speaks to the author of a new oral biography, Kurt Vonnegut Remembered. Fifty...

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THE HEALING POWER OF POETRY

Chris Martin·March 20, 2019

Using poetry to reach troubled kids, Chris Martin found a portal into one of his more difficult cases by focusing on Ted Berrigan, Gary Snyder, William Blake, heaven and hell For the last fifteen years, I have been working with...

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KENNETH PITT: THE ARCHITECT WHO TURNED DAVID JONES INTO DAVID BOWIE

Tosh Berman·March 19, 2019

Bowie’s first manager was an old school, former publicist for Sinatra, Ellington, Jerry Lee Lewis and Manfred Mann, but he was also a gentleman who provided his protégé a wide canvas on which to later create Ziggy, Aladdin Sane, the...

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The Monkees during a television special in 1969

THE IMMORTAL MONKEES!

Crispin Kott·March 18, 2019

Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith carry on, despite the loss of Davy Jones and, most recently, Peter Tork. Their current tour is a tribute to lost friends, a celebration of their “Good Times!” in the present day, and a reminder...

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PAMELA DES BARRES: SEARCHING FOR TOMORROW

Pamela Des Barres·March 14, 2019

After a blush of success with her all-girl group the GTOs and a role in Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels, our Miss Pamela found herself slogging down the slippery slope of showbiz, enduring gropings from lechers, casting calls that went nowhere,...

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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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DAVID GODLIS: THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHER AT CBGB

WHO WROTE EASY RIDER?

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