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BEATLES, STONES, SINATRA & BEYOND: TERRY O’NEILL TALKS ABOUT HIS COOL ICONIC IMAGES

Burt Kearns·February 19, 2019

Legendary British photographer Terry O’Neill started out shooting the Beatles and the Stones as struggling young bands in the early 60s, and went on to create iconic portraits of Frank Sinatra, Elvis, David Bowie, Brigitte Bardot, The Who, Eric Clapton,...

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A TWO-DAY BASH IN DENVER FOR NEAL CASSADY’S BIRTHDAY!

Zack Kopp·February 18, 2019

Jello Biafra, David Amram, Heather Dalton, Nancy Weil and many others converged on Denver to honor the city’s self-proclaimed “unnatural son,” Neal Cassady, the man—immortalized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road—who drove the Beat Generation into existence before driving Ken...

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DUSTY SPRINGFIELD: SISTER OF THE DUST, SISTER OF OUR HEARTS

Christine Ohlman·February 14, 2019

Christine Ohlman, the Beehive Queen of blue-eyed rock & soul, pays homage to Dusty Springfield, one of her greatest influences, as we approach the 20th anniversary of Dusty’s death (3/2/99) Dusty, oh Dusty. Where art thou? Mother Mary O’Brien, sister of...

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TOSH BERMAN: GROWING UP IN PUBLIC

Alan Bisbort·February 13, 2019

His father, Wallace Berman, was one of the best-known artists in America, featured on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Tosh had a front-row seat for countercultural history, and his new memoir offers a fresh...

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Joan Jett and Lita Ford of The Runaways, at The Whisky Aug. 1977

JENNY LENS: AN L.A. PUNK PIONEER

Sharon M. Hannon·February 12, 2019

When Jenny Lens took her camera into the heart and soul of the Los Angeles punk scene, she felt like she was riding on a comet. During that time, her photographs appeared everywhere, among which were iconic shots of The...

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ANNI HOGAN: THE SUPER SOLO COLLABORATIONIST

Robert Gourley·February 11, 2019

As a solo artist and a collaborator (with Lydia Lunch, Nick Cave, Kid Congo Powers, Nico, Gene Pitney, Marc Almond, Matt Johnson, members of the Pogues and Siouxsie and the Banshees, among others), Anni Hogan has formed a large musical...

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CHRIS STEIN: HIS PHOTOGRAPHIC POINT OF VIEW

Eric Davidson·February 7, 2019

With his camera eye, Blondie’s guitarist offers a fresh angle on the city where he grew up and the punk scene he documented, in his new book. In a candid conversation with Eric Davidson, he recalls the times when NYC...

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A BUBBLING CAULDRON: THE ELECTRO-PSYCHEDELIC SAGA OF FIFTY FOOT HOSE

Jim Allen·February 6, 2019

1960s Bay Area pioneers Fifty Foot Hose were too far out even for the hippies (think: Jefferson Airplane meets Stockhausen), opening shows with “Do The Dog” and closing them with room-clearing “electronic freakouts”. Half a century later, they’re still ahead...

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DANCING WITH THE GHOST OF JAMES DEAN

Pamela Des Barres·February 5, 2019

A lifetime ago, a young girl heard a radio news report about the tragic death of the Hollywood actor, setting her on a path of discovery she still walks today. Who is James Dean? Join Pamela Des Barres on her...

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NAKED BREAKFAST: WHERE TO START WITH WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Billy Hough·January 31, 2019

Burroughs’ vision, birthed in the Midwest during the Great Depression and brought to maturity by the Beat Generation, was provocative, transgressive and hysterical but, most importantly for us today, prophetic. Performance artist Billy Hough offers a unique perspective on the...

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IN THE SPIRIT OF RIMBAUD: FOUR NEW POETS WHO MAKE THEIR OWN RULES

Chris Martin·January 30, 2019

Real poets, said Frank O’Hara, don’t need rules or schools, and these young writers prove that by stepping right out into the world, like the Beats and the punks before them When I was a young poet, everyone was talking...

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Li'l Willie G and Lydia Amesqua with God's Children 1970

THE SOUND OF EAST L.A.: GOD’S CHILDREN AND THEE MIDNITERS

Richie Unterberger·January 29, 2019

The Stones met Sly Stone when Little Willie G. stepped up to the microphone in the late 1960s/early 1970s to assert ‘Chicano Power’ In the mid-to-late 1960s, the sound of East L.A. was thriving, blending soul and rock with some...

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Poster for The Sex Pistols’ single ‘God Save The Queen’, Jamie Reid, May 1977. Image courtesy of The Mott Collection. Artwork by Jamie Reid courtesy John Marchant Gallery.

OH SO PRETTY: TOBY MOTT’S PUNK ARTIFACTS

Eric Davidson·January 28, 2019

PKM talks to British artist, designer, and Punk historian Toby Mott about the early days of punk in London, his book, Oh So Pretty: Punk in Print 1976-80, featuring his collection of UK punk rock ephemera, and his recent contributions to the Punk...

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5 BANDS THAT SOLD OUT

Harrison Connery·January 24, 2019

A hip-hop band espousing non-materialist themes, doing ad campaigns for Walmart and Target. A gay icon playing Rush Limbaugh’s wedding. A band that started out as an anarchist punk group, selling a song to GM for an ad campaign. We...

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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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BEATLES, STONES, SINATRA & BEYOND: TERRY O’NEILL TALKS ABOUT HIS COOL ICONIC IMAGES

A TWO-DAY BASH IN DENVER FOR NEAL CASSADY’S BIRTHDAY!

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD: SISTER OF THE DUST, SISTER OF OUR HEARTS

TOSH BERMAN: GROWING UP IN PUBLIC

JENNY LENS: AN L.A. PUNK PIONEER

ANNI HOGAN: THE SUPER SOLO COLLABORATIONIST

CHRIS STEIN: HIS PHOTOGRAPHIC POINT OF VIEW

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DANCING WITH THE GHOST OF JAMES DEAN

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