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LOST AND FOUND: KAREN DALTON

Alan Bisbort·March 13, 2019

Though she has been dead for more than a quarter-century, Karen Dalton, a staple of the Greenwich Village folk scene, had the sort of voice that still haunts those of us who love music in the margins. Woodstock, New York...

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SIDEWINDER: THE MURDER OF LEE MORGAN

Burt Kearns·March 12, 2019

The jazz trumpeter extraordinaire was a prodigy who inherited the musical mantle of Clifford Brown, as well as the latter’s untimely and tragic end. It’s a story of drugs, redemption, jealousy and rage that came to a head next to...

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WHY THE RAMONES MATTER: A CONVERSATION WITH DONNA GAINES

Harrison Connery·March 11, 2019

Even as a teen hanging out on street corners in Queens, Donna Gaines was doing research for her career in sociology. But then four guys from Queens, The Ramones, turned her world upside down and she was never the same....

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WHAT DOES REGRET MEAN?: INSIDE THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS

Amy Haben·March 8, 2019

Being punk rebels in Texas, with a name guaranteed to ban them from all God-fearing media outlets, qualifies the Butthole Surfers for the next edition of Profiles in Courage. But, alas, they have their own book now, filled with firsthand...

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JOHN CALE : THE MIDWIFE OF PUNK ROCK

Billy Hough·March 7, 2019

It is Billy Hough’s passionate belief that our musical world would be a different place if this brilliant Welshman hadn’t collided with Lou Reed, Nico, Jonathan Richman, Patti Smith, Iggy and the Stooges, and so many others. So you could...

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DEKE DICKERSON: MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR!

Alan Bisbort·March 6, 2019

Because he’s so good on the guitar, the Missouri native’s million other hats are often overlooked in the shuffle: writer, archivist, collector of weird albums, vintage automobiles and musical equipment (including a quadruple-necked guitar), preservationist, biographer, and on and on....

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THE BIRTH OF GONZO AT THE KENTUCKY DERBY

Alan Bisbort·March 5, 2019

Hunter S. Thompson became a known quantity with the publication of Hell’s Angels (1967), but it wasn’t until he teamed up with Ralph Steadman for the first time that true gonzo journalism was born. A new Last Gasp publication, Who...

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JEREMY REED: RUINED BY POETRY

Gillian McCain·March 4, 2019

British writer and provocateur extraordinaire talks about some wild sidetrips his literary career has taken, how he has managed to write his numerous books by hand and his love of groundbreaking literature by Anne Sexton, J.G. Ballard, William S. Burroughs,...

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DAVID J.: GOING FAR BEYOND BAUHAUS

Amanda Sheppard·February 28, 2019

The bass player and biographer of the beloved post-punk band [Who Killed Mister Moonlight: Bauhaus, Black Magick, and Benediction] talks about his affinity for the Beats, friendships with William S. Burroughs, John Giorno and Jim Carroll, his time in Love...

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PETER STAMPFEL: THE LAST HOLY MODAL ROUNDER TELLS ALL

Benito Vila·February 27, 2019

At 80, the tireless and talented fiddle, banjo and guitar player, Ur-punk provocateur, former Rounder, Fug, devotee of Harry Smith, Spike Jones, Pete Seeger, Little Richard and the Beats, is recording songs for every year of the 20th century, playing...

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OVERCOMING ADVERSITY: A DRUNK’S REDEMPTION

Alan Bisbort·February 26, 2019

Time to raise a celebratory, non-alcoholic toast because Sweet Adversity by Donald Newlove (one of PKM’s “Best Books By Drunks”) has just been reissued, after 40 years of neglect. Both Newlove, now age 90, and the publisher, Rick Schober of Tough...

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SUBVERSIVE GROOVES: MUSIC FROM THE DARK SIDE

Amy Haben·February 25, 2019

Music is the universal balm and this holds true for religious cult members, devil worshipers, sex workers and porn stars too. Here are some prime examples from the likes of Traci Lords, Ya Ho Wa 13 and the daughter of...

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GRAHAM PARKER: DON’T ASK ME QUESTIONS

Michael Shelley·February 21, 2019

Navigating the terrain between pub rock and punk rock, Parker and his red-hot band The Rumour, with Nick Lowe at the controls, cooked up an intoxicating stew of “rockabilly, rock & roll, soul music, Motown” and blended that with his...

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ALLISON WOLFE: ROOTS OF THE RIOT GRRRL MOVEMENT

Robin Crane·February 20, 2019

Allison Wolfe has been inspiring grrrls, girls and women since the early 1990s when she co-founded the Riot Grrrl movement. Most well-known as frontwoman of Bratmobile, she’s also played in many other bands, initiated the first Ladyfest, a global feminist...

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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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LOST AND FOUND: KAREN DALTON

SIDEWINDER: THE MURDER OF LEE MORGAN

WHY THE RAMONES MATTER: A CONVERSATION WITH DONNA GAINES

WHAT DOES REGRET MEAN?: INSIDE THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS

JOHN CALE : THE MIDWIFE OF PUNK ROCK

DEKE DICKERSON: MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR!

THE BIRTH OF GONZO AT THE KENTUCKY DERBY

JEREMY REED: RUINED BY POETRY

DAVID J.: GOING FAR BEYOND BAUHAUS

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