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NEWS FLASH: EAST GERMAN PUNKS TORE DOWN THE BERLIN WALL!

Alan Bisbort·September 26, 2018

In his incendiary new book Burning Down the Haus, Tim Mohr documents the “secret history of punk rock under the dictator” and inspires hope in the hearts of all the rest of us “Don’t Die In The Waiting Room of...

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JUDGMENT NIGHT: THE SOUNDTRACK THAT BLEW UP POP MUSIC

Darren Paltrowitz·September 25, 2018

We take a look at the 1993 film that, for the first time, brought rockers (J. Mascis, Sonic Youth, Living Colour, Teenage Fanclub) together with rap artists (Run D.M.C., Ice-T, Cypress Hill), to create a full studio album. The big-budget...

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THE ‘5TH RAMONE’ SPEAKS!

Michael Shelley·September 24, 2018

Ramones Tour Manager Monte A. Melnick on the fights, the insanity, and the passions! The Ramones formed in March of 1974 and broke up in August of 1996 and Monte A. Melnick was a witness to almost every moment of...

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LEGENDARY AUSTRALIAN BAND, “SCIENTISTS” REVEAL THEIR SECRET FORMULA!

Eric Davidson·September 20, 2018

Scientists founder Kim Salmon on their first US Tour! Formed in 1978 and slow-burning their way out of Perth, Australia, and through the 1980s underground, the Scientists are finally playing some U.S. shows this fall. News of these impending reunion...

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KK DOWNING TALKS ABOUT HIS HEAVY DUTY DAYS & NIGHTS IN JUDAS PRIEST

Mike Derrico·September 19, 2018

Besides being the first book about Judas Priest written from the inside, KK Downing’s Heavy Duty: Days and Nights in Judas Priest (released this week by Da Capo Press) serves as a classic study in the long-range effects that a...

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FATHER YOD: WAR HERO, BANK ROBBER, POLYGAMIST CULT LEADER AND PSYCHEDELIC RECORDING ARTIST!

Amanda Sheppard·September 18, 2018

Only in LA, it seems, could a former US Marine, World War II hero and alleged bankrobber, transform himself into a natural foods restaurateur, polygamous leader of a hippie cult and vocalist for an experimental rock band, Ya Ho Wha...

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I WAS A ROADIE FOR THE REPLACEMENTS AND LIVED TO TELL THE TALE: BILL SULLIVAN ON HIS BOOK, “LEMON JAIL”

Todd McGovern·September 17, 2018

Roadie Bill Sullivan takes you into the madness of touring with The Replacements in “Lemon Jail” “I was a stooge and a clown for sure, the punk rock’s Jerome to Paul (Westerberg’s) Morris Day, but I knew it. It was...

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THIS AIN’T NO ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST MAN… THIS IS MELTASIA!

Amy Haben·September 13, 2018

Meltasia is a two-day mushroom- and acid-laced music festival in upstate New York. In its Ninth year, the rock & roll festival attracted swarms of tattooed, vintage-wearing, mulleted campers to enjoy electric sets by bands Shannon and the Clams, Gnarcissists,...

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ZEKI MÜREN, THE DAVID BOWIE OF TURKEY

Burt Kearns·September 12, 2018

Never denying his homosexuality, the Turkish showman broke down barriers in his conservative nation, played Vegas, tutored Mick Jagger and tried to give singing lessons to Sinatra. Since his death on live TV in 1996, he has become a mythical...

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ANDY WARHOL TURNS THE TABLES ON THE MEDIA

Mary Karmelek·September 11, 2018

In his interactions with the media, the famous artist and provocateur offered only what enhanced his persona, not what the interviewer wanted to hear. Watch the master at work in these classic clips… Interviews, at their most basic level, are...

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STREET ART: RETURN OF THE FINK!

Eric Davidson·September 10, 2018

Artist Sek Fink revives “Rat Fink” fun around the Outer Boroughs of NYC So I’m riding my bike around Astoria one day, and I see this mechanic’s shop with a huge mural on the side, featuring a crazed monster zoomin’...

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PATTY SCHEMEL: THE HOLE TRUTH

Amy Haben·September 6, 2018

Hole drummer Patty Schemel’s brutally honest memoir, Hit So Hard, looks at the dark side of rock ‘n’ roll stardom, drug addiction and depression, but moves toward the light – sobriety and sanity Drummer Patty Schemel opens her memoir, Hit So...

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STRAIGHT OUTTA DETROIT: EARLY BOB SEGER’S HEAVY MUSIC

Richie Unterberger·September 5, 2018

A reissue of singles from 1966/67 offer the shocking news that, before the Stooges, MC5 and Mitch Ryder, Bob Seger was the rawest and realist Motor City music maker “Make your goal the first foxhole!” scream/snarls the singer as the...

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MISERY LOVES COMPANY: THE KILLER NURSE WHO INSPIRED STEPHEN KING

Athena Alvarez·September 4, 2018

The story of killer nurse Genene Jones, who was a real-life Annie Wilkes – Stephen King’s unforgettable and deranged character in Misery The mega-selling horror writer Stephen King has conjured up many human monsters on the pages of his novels...

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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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