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PETER K. SIEGEL: QUIETLY CHANGING AMERICAN MUSIC

Elliott Sharp·January 6, 2022

A chance encounter on Craigslist between guitarist-composer Elliott Sharp and musical archivist and producer Peter K. Siegel—one time member of the seminal Even Dozen Jug Band and founder of the Nonesuch record label’s Explorer Series—led to the following conversational exploration...

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FINNISH AVANT-GARDIST KEUHKOT IS CONTINUING THE UNIVERSE

Jordan Mamone·January 5, 2022

Keuhkot is, as Jordan N. Mamone suggests, “the world’s only one-man avant-garde Finnish vaudeville act.” “Keuhkot” is the stage name of Kake Puhuu, born Kalevi Rainio; the word means “Lungs,” and man oh man does this guy own a pair!...

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THE NEXT ‘NEW DYLAN’

Alan Bisbort·January 4, 2022

After Bob Dylan went into hiding in upstate New York in 1966, the search was on for the “New Dylan.” Many were given this distinction by the rock press, many others consciously aspired to the title. The following is an...

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PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF PKM FOR 2021, PART II

PKM Editor·December 27, 2021

By PKM Editors These are the TOP TEN STORIES for the year on PKM, our toppermost of the poppermost. Enjoy these over the next few days while we prepare some great new stories for the new year. 1. RUTH UNDERWOOD:...

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PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF 2021, PART I

PKM Editor·December 22, 2021

Put another log on the fire, top that tankard of coffee, tea and/or antibiotics, and kick back with Please Kill Me’s Top 20 stories of 2021. We offer here the 20 most visited stories on our website for the past year....

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INSIDE CAFÉ SOCIETY: NYC’S FIRST INTEGRATED NIGHTCLUB

Sharon M. Hannon·December 21, 2021

When Café Society opened as a cabaret in Greenwich Village in December 1938, it was one of the few clubs in America where white and black patrons could sit shoulder to shoulder. It also became the launching pad for major...

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SHEL TALMY’S SONIC ODYSSEY

John Kruth·December 20, 2021

Shel Talmy. Just the sound of his name evokes a time when London was on the verge of exploding. Though he produced and shaped groundbreaking early work by the Kinks, Who, Easybeats, Creation, Manfred Mann and a youngster named Davy...

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DIVINE: LAUGHTER AND LUST IN THE DUST

Cree McCree·December 16, 2021

In 1984, Cree McCree sat down with Divine during the filming of the Lust in the Dust, directed by Paul Bartel and co-starring Tab Hunter. For this campy Western, Divine was “Rosie,” an exotic cantina dancer. At the time, Divine,...

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ELLIOTT SHARP AT 70: STILL DOING THE DON’T

John Kruth·December 15, 2021

‘Musician’ seems a paltry way to describe Elliott Sharp because he is so many things—multi-instrumentalist (sax, clarinet, guitar), composer of film scores, operas, jazz and blues recordings, bandleader, producer, sound-artist, teacher, writer and longtime mainstay of NYC’s avant-garde. But at...

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GOODBYE MICHAEL NESMITH: AN ENTRY FROM MY DIARY

James Grauerholz·December 14, 2021

James Grauerholz, the bibliographer and literary executor of William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), was the late writer’s friend, intimate companion, collaborator, business manager and, in the end, keeper of his flame. He co-edited Burroughs’ trilogy, Cities of the Red Night (1981),...

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LENI SINCLAIR AND THE MOTOR CITY UNDERGROUND

Richie Unterberger·December 13, 2021

In 1959, Leni Sinclair—born Magdalene Arndt—left a West Berlin refugee camp bound for Detroit, where relatives lived. A teenager with a love of Beat poetry, avant-garde jazz and film, she carried a camera wherever she went. Soon immersed in the...

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SUICIDE: FIELD RECORDINGS, 1977, 1980

Hernan Muleiro·December 9, 2021

Alan Vega and Martin Rev, as Suicide, were the first NYC performers to use the word ‘punk’ as connected to their music, which was noisy, relentless and confrontational. Hernán Muleiro, a devotee of “unofficial” recordings, recently unearthed two live samples...

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BUSH TETRAS: A HAPPY SAD CELEBRATION OF DOWNTOWN GIANTS

John Pietaro·December 8, 2021

Bush Tetras, for some the embodiment of the Downtown music scene, are back in the public eye, for one really good reason and one really sad one. First the sad one: The recent, sudden passing of original drummer Dee Pop...

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HYMN FOR THE DUDE: INTERVIEW WITH MORGAN FISHER

Valerie Simadis·December 7, 2021

Though Morgan Fisher has enjoyed an eclectic career—from soul music/Top 40 hits and rock ‘n’ roll to art-punk hybrids, ambient projects and spoken word collaborations with the likes of Yoko Ono—he may be best known for his tenure as keyboardist...

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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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