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MORGANA WELCH, A QUEEN OF L.A.

Lucretia Tye Jasmine·October 22, 2018

Morgana Welch’s search for an identity took her, and the rest of the groupies known as the LA Queens, to the Riot House, Rodney’s English Disco, the Rainbow, the Whisky, and other haunts, where she hung out with a Who’s...

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Legs McNeil, Marc Maron, and Gillian McCain

WTF! PODCAST KING MARC MARON CAN TAKE A PUNCH

Whitney Matheson·October 18, 2018

Whether talking at length about clowns with John C. Reilly, discussing suicide with Robin Williams or addiction with Margaret Cho, the podcast host has spent the last ten years inside his garage forging connections and searching for truth. His book,...

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From the Lou Reed Archive/The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

LOU REED’S ARCHIVE HOLDS SIX HUNDRED HOURS OF MOSTLY UNRELEASED AUDIO, AND OTHER REVELATIONS FROM HIS ARCHIVIST

Michael Shelley·October 17, 2018

Don Fleming, rock musician (Gumball, Dinosaur Jr, Velvet Monkeys) and producer (Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, Hole, Alice Cooper, Dictators, Joan Jett, Richard Hell) is also one of rock & roll’s preeminent archivists. In recent months, he helped organize Lou Reed’s...

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The Velvet Underground in 1970: Doug Yule, left, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison and Moe Tucker. (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)

DOUG YULE: THE FORGOTTEN VELVET

Richie Unterberger·October 16, 2018

He appeared on more Velvet Underground recordings than John Cale or Nico and yet he is seldom mentioned in documentaries about the band, and was not included in the induction of the VU into the Rock & Roll Hall of...

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EXPERIENCING THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN NEW YORK CITY

Eric Davidson·October 15, 2018

A new ‘Art & Music Exhibition’ re-creates the bohemian rhapsodies that cross-pollinated in downtown Manhattan and shaped everything from the Beats to the punks, all of it seeming to be six degrees of separation from the Velvets I am sure...

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STERLING SPEAKS! STERLING MORRISON’S LAST INTERVIEW WITH LEGS MCNEIL, 1995

Legs McNeil·October 11, 2018

Sterling Morrison (1942-1995) was the guitarist for the Velvet Underground, appearing on all four studio albums that the band made. He left the band in 1971 and moved to Texas to finish graduate school, became both a tugboat captain and...

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SHOOTING THE BREEZE WITH THELMA AND THE SLEAZE

Amy Haben·October 10, 2018

LG, the frontwoman of Nashville’s Thelma and the Sleaze, talks to PKM about being a ‘child of the Nineties’, influences, hecklers, and of course… rock n’ roll! “So I was clippin’ coupons, masturbatin’, and watching Family Feud, when there was...

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SHA NA NA & THE ESCAPED BABY-KILLER

Burt Kearns·October 9, 2018

How guitarist ‘Vinnie Taylor’ came back to life 20 years after dying of a heroin overdose and fooled the cops for four years while allegedly playing in the retro rock & roll band that Jimi Hendrix brought with him to...

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IN THE FAST LANE: A ROCK & ROLL ACTION ADVENTURE!

Amanda Sheppard·October 8, 2018

Australian filmmaker and rock-trash impresario Josh “Sinbad” Collins releases Fags in the Fast Lane, his first film since Pervirella (1997). The cast includes the legendary Kitten Natividad, El Vez, the musical stylings of King Kahn and narration by Tex Perkins....

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Herman's Hermits in 1968. From L-R: Keith Hopwood, Karl Green, Derek Leckenby, frontman Peter Noone, and Barry Whitwam. By NBC Television

PETER NOONE IS THE BIGGEST SEX PISTOLS FAN EVER! AND OTHER STARTLING REVELATIONS FROM THE HEAD HERMIT

Valerie Simadis·October 4, 2018

The former child TV star was part of the British Invasion that conquered America, chums with Keith Moon, Brian Jones and John Lennon, recorded with Bowie, and still tours and tells tales on his Sirius XM show “Something Good With...

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Syd Barrett with one of his paintings, 1964 by John Gordon

ROCK & ROLL’S WANNABE PICASSOS

Alan Bisbort·October 3, 2018

Bob Dylan, Ronnie Wood and Grace Slick are best known for their music, but they’ve also pursued the visual arts. Here are 10 rockers who dared to share their artwork. In the 1990s, I was hired to write the text...

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READ ME: THE LAST WISH OF JOHNNY STRIKE

Zack Kopp·October 2, 2018

Johnny Strike was a San Francisco punk pioneer and leader of the band Crime. A fixture at Mabuhay Gardens who once performed at San Quentin prison dressed in a cop uniform, he was also a prolific author whose work was...

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Iggy Pop, Penn Jilette, Steve Forbert, Teller, and David Bowie, 1985 - Photo by Marc Bryan-Brown

STILL ALIVE ON ARRIVAL: STEVE FORBERT, HONORARY PUNK

Shelagh Little·October 1, 2018

In his new memoir, Big City Cat: My Life in Folk Rock, the groundbreaking singer-songwriter Steve Forbert recounts his early days as part of the downtown NYC scene, where he was equally comfortable playing at Folk City and CBGB. He...

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THE JOYS OF RENT BOYS AND DRAG QUEENS, THE STOOGES AND BOWIE: A CONVERSATION WITH LEEE BLACK CHILDERS

PKM Editor·September 27, 2018

Photographer and scene maker Leee Black Childers on his wild and woolly ride with Iggy, the Stooges, David Bowie, Andy Warhol, Candy Darling, Jackie Curtis, Wayne/Jayne County, underage groupies, leather boys, and in the gay bars and bathhouses of NYC...

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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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