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TOM ROBINSON: STILL ON THE MOTORWAY TO A BETTER WORLD

David Stewart·December 6, 2021

Hidden in plain sight during the Punk heyday, a subset of musicians were singing about, and working toward, a better world rather than pushing a dark, nihilistic agenda. Among these were the Tom Robinson Band, whose songs climbed the charts...

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ECHOES FROM THE VAULT: THE AFTERLIFE OF MUSIC ESTATES

Fiona McQuarrie·December 2, 2021

By Fiona McQuarrie Musicians all die, the great as well as the not so great, but their estates live on forever. And, for some heirs, lawyers and corporations, that’s where the real money is…and where the real problems begin. The...

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THE LAVENDER SCARE: WHEN GAY WAS NOT

Alan Bisbort·December 1, 2021

Spreading fear is one of the hallmarks of the far right in the U.S., a way to divide people by demonizing an “other.” From colonial times, the “other” was invoked: red savages, Catholics, witches, Quakers, immigrants (of all ethnicities), Blacks,...

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BEING NICO: DANNY FIELDS INTERVIEWS BIOGRAPHER JENNIFER OTTER BICKERDICKE

Danny Fields·November 30, 2021

Jennifer Otter Bickerdike’s sparkling new book You Are Beautiful And You Are Alone: A Biography of Nico, fully captures the complex, talented and tormented person that Danny Fields knew and loved. Danny met Jen in 2017 and struck up a...

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BUILD BACK BETTER: PKM HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2021

PKM Editor·November 29, 2021

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Solstice or just prefer to spend the holidays getting drunk and avoiding people, you still need a little something to make you, and those you love, feel good. With that in mind, PKM hopes...

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TAKE MY MOTHER IN LAW…PLEASE: CAROL O’SHAUGHNESSY

Alan Bisbort·November 25, 2021

Thanksgiving is the best holiday on the calendar. It’s a non-denominational, non-political, non-threatening time when we ponder things for which we are most grateful. The only thing that can go wrong at Thanksgiving is gastronomical in nature. Defying every cliché...

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‘OUR KID’: MIKE MCCARTNEY CAPTURES THE EARLY BEATLES ON FILM

Richie Unterberger·November 24, 2021

Paul McCartney’s younger brother, Michael, had a front row seat during the early days of the Quarrymen and the Beatles. He also had the smarts and talent to pick up a camera and capture the musical magic and gritty energy...

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VLADIMIR VYSOTSKY: HAMLET WITH A GUITAR

Daniel Bowen·November 23, 2021

Alternately ignored and vilified by the Soviet authorities during his short lifetime, singer, actor, poet and drunkard Vladimir Vysotsky (1938-1980) was called, during his lifetime, ‘the Bob Dylan of the Soviet Union” and now, forty years after his death, he’s Russia’s most...

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DENIS KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL: UNDERGROUND COMIX PIONEER KEEPS ON TRUCKIN’

Alan Bisbort·November 22, 2021

By Alan Bisbort Denis Kitchen is, in my view, the Stan Lee of underground comix. While Lee’s Marvel Comics was cranking out Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Doctor Strange, et al, Kitchen—at his Wisconsin-based Krupp Comics and Kitchen Sink imprints—was publishing a...

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THE GUN CLUB DOWN UNDER

Patrick Emery·November 18, 2021

Gun Club, led by the mercurial Jeffrey Lee Pierce, were booked for a month-long tour of Australia in late 1983. However, two members of the band quit just before takeoff at the LA airport, leaving Pierce to more or less to...

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ISABELLE EBERHARDT: RIMBAUD’S ‘DAUGHTER’

Ingrid Marie Jensen·November 17, 2021

Patti Smith championed her, Paul Bowles translated her writings into English, but Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) may be best remembered for her embrace of personal and artistic freedom. Spiritual heiress to Arthur Rimbaud—some dubious rumors say she was his illegitimate daughter—Isabelle...

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UTOPIA PARKWAY: THE ENDURING MYSTERY OF JOSEPH CORNELL

Alan Bisbort·November 16, 2021

Artist, filmmaker and writer Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) was a mystery when he was alive and continues to mystify fifty years after his death. Best known as the “box artist,” he made assemblages that defy categorization but seem to resonate with...

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RUTH UNDERWOOD: A MOTHER OF INVENTION

Ingrid Marie Jensen·November 15, 2021

An integral part of Frank Zappa’s band the Mothers of Invention, Ruth Underwood stayed mostly in the background on stage and in the studio, filling the sound with her indispensable contributions on marimba, harp, xylophone, vibraphone and drums. Her reputation,...

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TEA IN THE SAHARA WITH PAUL BOWLES

Ken Krayeske·November 11, 2021

While a college student on a semester abroad in Spain, Ken Krayeske made a quixotic trip to Morocco to find Paul Bowles. Actually, the trip started six months earlier when he stumbled on a copy of Bowles’ The Sheltering Sky...

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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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