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WHEN GENE CLARK LEFT THE BYRDS’ NEST

Richie Unterberger·June 5, 2018

Former Byrd Gene Clark died in 1991, but a cache of new material has surfaced that will raise the prolific songwriter’s profile. Richie Unterberger interviews Clark biographer Jon Einarson about this rare, new material on the verge of its June...

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BEAUTIFUL FREAK: MARK EVERETT AND THE EELS

Valerie Simadis·June 4, 2018

The eels recently released their first studio album in four years, The Deconstruction, featuring electro-synth sounds, delicate piano intros, and a hint of Beatles influence. It’s safe to say, it was well worth the wait. After the death of his...

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EZRA FURMAN: TRANSFORMED BY LOU REED

Eric Davidson·May 31, 2018

Ezra Furman, the perfect pop maker for these trans times, on his newly published 33 & 1/3 book about Lou Reed and the Transformer album Ezra Furman is young, but he ain’t no kid. Having run his post-teen troubles course through...

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EXPLORING ROCK & ROLL HISTORY IN NEW YORK CITY

Legs McNeil·May 30, 2018

Mike Katz and Crispin Kott comb the boroughs for any and all hints of rock & roll’s roots and put it all inside one handy-dandy guidebook; the Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City Legs McNeil’s Foreword to the...

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KURT WAGNER OF LAMBCHOP ON THE CHANGING NASHVILLE SCENE, PLAYING WITH MORCHEEBA AND VIC CHESNUTT

Robert Gourley·May 29, 2018

Kurt Wagner, the Nashville-based leader of Lambchop and prolific songwriter, opens up about his 30-year career and his collaborations with Vic Chesnutt and Morcheeba Nashville’s Lambchop have never sounded quite like anyone else, and they’ve also never been known to repeat...

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ALL GAVE SOME, SOME GAVE ALL – 10 WAR MOVIES TO WATCH ON MEMORIAL DAY

PKM Editor·May 28, 2018

In honor of Memorial Day, PKM salutes our soldiers with a set of films that we feel capture the immense range of moral, physical and emotional difficulties of war. Whatever your politics may be, today we remember the bravery and...

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SILK, SATIN AND VELVET: THE SECRET HISTORY OF GROUPIE CHIC BY PAMELA DES BARRES

Pamela Des Barres·May 24, 2018

Pamela Des Barres shares the origin story of her love of the thrift store treasure hunt, the goldmine of vintage fashions that changed her life, and the encounter with Frank Zappa’s entourage that led to the start of her all-girl...

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THE TRUTH BEHIND THE BRAWL BETWEEN JOHN LENNON AND CHRIS MONTEZ IN 1963! EXCLUSIVE!

Burt Kearns·May 23, 2018

Eyewitness accounts finally reveal what really happened in the brawl between John Lennon and Chris Montez, which has become one of the great urban legends of rock & roll! It was March, 1963. Chris Montez’s rock & roll career had just...

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REAL CHARACTER: MISTER ROGERS

Alan Bisbort·May 22, 2018

A new documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, reveals the revolutionary simplicity of a children’s TV icon who redefined “authenticity” in a way that Sacha Baron Cohen (Ali G, Borat, Bruno), Nathan Felder (Nathan for You), Michael Dapaah (Big Shaq)...

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BOB GRUEN’S ELECTRIC PHOTOS OF IKE & TINA TURNER

Bob Gruen·May 21, 2018

Famed Rock Photographer Bob Gruen shares his incredible photos of Ike and Tina Turner from over 3 decades, and tells the story of how they changed his life and started his career I was 24 years old in the summer of...

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TOM WOLFE: A TRIBUTE

Benito Vila·May 18, 2018

Tom Wolfe forged a place in our collective consciousness for car enthusiasts, hippies, pilots, surfers, strippers and the monied elite, and helped make those who were exotic or “different” worthy of a new consideration So much has been written about Tom...

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THE SEARCH FOR CRAIG SMITH, A PROMISING L.A. SONGWRITER WHOSE STORY TOOK A DARK TURN

Alan Bisbort·May 17, 2018

On the brink of stardom, with help from Michael Nesmith, Mike Love and Glen Campbell, Craig Smith took a different, far darker path, taking the name Maitreya Kali and ending up on the streets of LA. Now, with help from...

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WHO TOLD YOU TO THINK?: HIP-HOP JOINS THE ACADEMY

Jeff Alessandrelli·May 16, 2018

What do Biggie Smalls, Kendrick Lamar, John Keats, Frank O’Hara, Milo and Earl Sweatshirt have in common? A hip-hop scholar drops some knowledge. By Jeff Alessandrelli When Kendrick Lamar won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music earlier this year, for...

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DEBBIE HARRY: THE QUEEN OF NEW YORK

Amy Haben·May 15, 2018

On Tour With Debbie Harry: Still Cool, Still Beautiful “Debbie, Debbie!” As I sit in the Blondie tour bus in Toronto, I can’t believe the volume of the crowd of fans hanging around the back door of the theatre. Then,...

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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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