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HONEYMOON KILLERS: LIVING AND DYING FOR LOVE

Athena Alvarez·July 18, 2018

The real-life story behind the movie The Honeymoon Killers is even more bizarre and fascinating than the movie itself. Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck were a couple who worked together to lure wealthy single women and rob them, but they eventually...

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BOBBY BEAUSOLEIL’S GHOST HIGHWAY

PKM Editor·July 17, 2018

Despite facing a life sentence in California prison, the talented composer has never lost his musical and artistic muse For most of the last half century, 71-year-old Bobby BeauSoleil has resided in a place as close to Hell on Earth...

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THE ANIMALS DIED LAUGHING: SUE COE’S GRAPHIC RESISTANCE

Erika Blair·July 16, 2018

Sue Coe’s Graphic Resistance, an exhibition of prints, drawings and collages at MoMA PS1, presents decades worth of arresting visual dissidence at a time when criticizing American fascism has, out of necessity, become the new normal. Sue Coe (b. 1951)...

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MURDER THEY ROCKED: 10 HARD ROCK SONGS ABOUT ACTUAL BLOODTHIRSTY DEEDS

PKM Editor·July 13, 2018

10 metal and hard rock songs about real-life murderers, sociopaths, and sadists By Benjamin H. Smith Ever since Black Sabbath named themselves after a 1960s horror flick and Led Zeppelin sang “the soul of a woman was created below” (or...

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MISS PAMELA: MENTORED BY BEEFHEART AND ZAPPA

Pamela Des Barres·July 12, 2018

Try to imagine a sixteen-year-old high school girl waaaay back in 1965, living a rather ordinary Leave-it-to Beaver existence, tucked safely within the clean, green San Fernando Valley — finding herself standing before the unimaginable presence of one Captain Beefheart...

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BEAT TO A PULP: TALKING ‘BOUT OUR GENERATION(S)

Alan Bisbort·July 11, 2018

Pulp fiction may be fun to think about and the books’ covers are a delight, but the contents almost always get it wrong – especially when it comes to the Hippies and the Beats It is a rule of nature,...

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WILD JIMMY SPRUILL: SCRATCHING OUT THE HITS

James Marshall·July 10, 2018

James Marshall charts the epic tale of New York City’s rock’n’roll history, embodied in the story of the city’s greatest rock’n’roll guitar player, a man you probably never even heard of. “I’m not good, I’m just different”— Wild Jimmy Spruill...

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THE HOUSES THAT FEAR BUILT: GOSSIP QUEENS LOUELLA PARSONS AND HEDDA HOPPER

Mary Werblin·July 9, 2018

The popular FX series Feud: Bette and Joan reintroduced the world to these two Hollywood harpies, who not only turned America into a celebrity-crazed nation but also presaged the careers of radio ranters and unhinged bloggers who dominate today’s media...

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GROUPIES ON VINYL

Lucretia Tye Jasmine·July 5, 2018

They didn’t just join the bands on stage, on tour, in the motel room; some groupies, like Cherry Vanilla, GTOs, Pleasant Gehman, Adriana Smith and Cleo and Cookie, recorded their own music Like an advance guard for the sexual revolution,...

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YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION: REMEMBERING THE 60s

Alan Bisbort·July 4, 2018

In the spirit of the July 4th holiday, we look backward and forward simultaneously, with a little help from our friends at the New York Public Library and their exhibition “You Say You Want A Revolution” Everywhere I hear the...

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TIME TRAVEL! WITH LEGS McNEIL AND THE ROCK & ROLL EXPLORER GUIDE TO NYC

Legs McNeil·July 3, 2018

“I know, I know; you were born too late, but here’s a secret passage way to the past… If you operate this book correctly, it will transport you back to those wondrous days of yesteryear when rock & roll was...

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THE DESTRUCTIVE CONCERT THAT GOT JUDAS PRIEST BANNED FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

Mike Derrico·July 2, 2018

The truth and the myths about a legendary Judas Priest show where the crowd threw M-80s and caused over $250,000 worth of damage to the Garden By Mike Derrico What creatures of debauchery we were as metalheads in the 1980s....

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A ROCK & ROLL TOURIST’S GUIDE TO LOS ANGELES

Darren Paltrowitz·June 28, 2018

11 Rock & Metal landmarks to check out when you’re in Los Angeles By Darren Paltrowitz As the city with the second largest metro population in the United States, it is not particularly surprising that Los Angeles is at the...

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THE LATE GREAT JOHNNY ACE

Burt Kearns·June 27, 2018

Johnny Ace died at 25, allegedly during a game of Russian Roulette. The legend of his death not only obscures his talent but is built upon a misreading of what really happened backstage that Christmas night in 1954 by Burt...

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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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