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PKM TV VISITS THE INFAMOUS DOM NIGHTCLUB ON ST MARK’S PLACE

PKM Editor·January 23, 2019

Yes! This week Crispin Kott and Mike Katz of the Rock & Roll Explorer Guide to New York City take us to the (once) infamous Dom on St. Mark’s Place to relive the glory days of the Velvets, Stooges and...

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LOU REED: FREEING THE ROCK & ROLL ANIMAL

Steve Katz·January 23, 2019

When Steve Katz, late of Blood Sweat & Tears and the Blues Project, signed on to produce some Lou Reed albums, he discovered that there were two Lou Reeds. The first one was an animal, captured beautifully live, and the...

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BP FALLON: PHOTOGRAPHING THE LEGENDS

Amy Haben·January 22, 2019

After landing a job on the staff at Apple Records in the late 1960s, the Irish singer, raconteur and man-about-town seemed to meet and greet and photograph everyone worth knowing in rock & roll. He walks PKM’s Amy Haben through...

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PETER MURPHY: 40 YEARS OF BAUHAUS REVISITED

Amanda Sheppard·January 21, 2019

Peter Murphy has reunited with David J., to perform their dark fusion of glam, cabaret, rock and reggae on the career-spanning Ruby Anniversary tour. PKM spoke to Murphy about the tour and playing his “miserable” hometown of Northampton, his experience working with Mick Karn on InGladAloneness before he passed away,...

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LED ZEPPELIN: DID THEY, OR DIDN’T THEY, PLAY?

Alan Bisbort·January 18, 2019

Filmmaker Jeff Krulik, auteur of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, has created a gripping film about a Led Zeppelin concert mystery. A handful of people claim they saw the band play a gig at a rec center in Wheaton, Maryland in...

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A RIOT OF THEIR OWN: THE FIRST GENERATION OF FEMALE ROCK BANDS

Jim Allen·January 17, 2019

It didn’t start with the Runaways or the Go-Go’s. 60s bands like Ace of Cups, She, The Girls, Goldie & The Gingerbreads, The Untouchable, The Pleasure Seekers, The Liverbirds and many more, were part of the first wave of bold...

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MARK DUPLASS: FAST, FUN AND FURIOUS

Whitney Matheson·January 16, 2019

The filmmaker, producer, actor, writer, musician and famous brother (to Jay Duplass) talks filmmaking, music and ‘being reckless, fast and not second-guessing myself’ This year alone, Mark Duplass has produced Wild Wild Country, the astonishing Netflix doc series about a...

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MICHAEL CHAIKEN: MAKING BOB DYLAN’S ARCHIVE COME ALIVE

James Marshall·January 15, 2019

The Dylan Archive curator’s road to Tulsa was paved with good obsessions, such as free jazz, Godard, the Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker, Norman Mailer and working with Glenn Horowitz. James Marshall hounds out the roadmap in a wide-ranging interview with Chaiken....

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STAR POWER FOR FOXY TEENS, A 1970s ‘GROUPIE’ MAGAZINE

Lucretia Tye Jasmine·January 14, 2019

Naked shots of David Cassidy next to quizzes that asked the girl readership “How Far Out Are You?” made this 1970s magazine a “Cosmopolitan for teenagers”. Star magazine, the Los Angeles-based teen periodical sometimes referred to as a “groupie magazine,” ran...

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CHRIS BELL: A FALLING STAR IN A FLEETING COSMOS

Bruce Eaton·January 10, 2019

After sketching out the creative blueprint for Memphis-based Big Star, the band that launched a thousand other “power pop” bands, Chris Bell left it in Alex Chilton’s hands after one album. He spent the rest of his short life trying...

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‘SHELLAC IN HIS VEINS’: AN INTERVIEW WITH SEYMOUR STEIN

Legs McNeil·January 9, 2019

As the co-founder (with Richard Gottehrer) of Sire Records in 1966, Seymour Stein reshaped the direction of popular music with his signing and tireless support of acts like the Ramones, Talking Heads, the Pretenders, The Smiths, The Cure, Ice-T, Echo...

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SUN RA: NEVER A PART OF THIS PLANET

Alan Bisbort·January 8, 2019

Sun Ra, “one of the strangest artists that America has ever produced” was once on the cover of Rolling Stone, shared bills with the MC5, performed on Saturday Night Live, influenced everyone from Kenneth Anger to Pink Floyd and dreamed...

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WHEN ARGENTINA WENT PUNK

Elilet Giudiche·January 7, 2019

The Ramones planted the seeds for a rock & roll revolution in a country that had been for too long in the grip of military dictators. Their fans became known as “Ramoneros” and are still revitalizing the punk scene today....

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JAMES “THE HOUND” MARSHALL IS BACK ON THE AIR

Fran Fried·January 4, 2019

Having developed a rabid following for his groundbreaking decade-long show on WFMU—often imitated but never equaled thereafter—the Hound is on the loose again, airing his new show on Sunday afternoons via his website. Fran Fried, another ‘free-form’ deejay, has tuned...

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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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