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BLOOD AND GUTS: THE REBIRTH OF KATHY ACKER

Mary Karmelek·November 1, 2017

Reissue of This Post-Punk Novelist’s Work Puts Her Back in the Countercultural Conversation Where She Belongs By Mary Karmelek If the writer Kathy Acker (1944-1997) had an Instagram account, what would she post? I imagine we’d see images of Don...

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VAMPIRES, HIPPIES, NINJAS AND YODAS: FOUND PHOTOS IN HONOR OF HALLOWEEN

Gillian McCain·October 31, 2017

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GLAM SLAM BOLAN BASH

PKM Editor·October 31, 2017

The Marc Bolan and T. Rex 40th Anniversary Concert was a Solid Gold Cosmic Gas! By Madeline Bocaro Whenever I play a T. Rex song, I get sucked into Marc Bolan’s shiny little world filled with unicorns and wizards, Cadillacs...

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HALLOWEEN HORROR FROM REAL AMERICAN LIFE

Charles Monagan·October 30, 2017

This Year Let Wisconsin Death Trip Take You to a Place You’ll Wish You’d Never Gone By Charles Monagan “By the end of the nineteenth century, country towns had become charnel houses and the counties that surrounded them had become...

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EVERYTHING IS COMBUSTIBLE: A CONVERSATION WITH TELEVISION’S RICHARD LLOYD

Todd McGovern·October 28, 2017

On the eve of the release of Richard Lloyd’s memoir, Everything Is Combustible, he talks to PKM about faith, drugs, mental illness, his years in Television and how Tom Verlaine’s controlling nature affected the band’s success To say that Television built...

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DRAG QUEEN FESTIVAL

Larry Baumhor·October 27, 2017

Text and photos by Larry Baumhor In September of 2016, I attended the Bushwig Drag Festival at the Knockdown Center in Queens as a photographer. I was so enthralled with the pomp and circumstance, the performances and, of course, the...

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PHOTOS FROM HALLOWEEN PARTY WITH STRANGE ASIAN DEATH CULT!

Gillian McCain·October 25, 2017

Actually, they are from the set of a TV show from the 1960s. The phrase “Daibau’s” seems to be a clue. As does the time period: November 1964 (except for the one at the top which was taken in 1965)....

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WHEN COMICS BECAME COMIX

Alan Bisbort·October 25, 2017

It may have started with Marvel vs. DC but it led to Robert Crumb and an Underground movement that has only grown since the 1960s You can’t toss a grenade these days without hitting a comic book superhero. What were...

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BORN AGAIN BOB – BOB DYLAN’S GOSPEL ERA

Sylvie Simmons·October 24, 2017

Still trying to come to terms with the time Dylan went Full Christian by Sylvie Simmons A few weeks back I got an email from the British rock mag I write for. They were planning a hefty piece to mark...

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THE SECRET LIFE OF SILLY PUTTY

Charles Monagan·October 23, 2017

How some cool cats bounced an unwanted glob of silicone all the way into the National Toy Hall of Fame By Charles Monagan In 1949, when he was 18 and a freshman at the Yale School of Music, the future...

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Here’s Mudd Club in Your Eye

Amy Haben·October 21, 2017

Richard Boch’s book about the iconic club brings back the glory days of post-punk decadence “A mattress on the floor, a makeshift shower and some basic third-hand furniture were all I needed. I had a stereo, boxes of records and...

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PRISSTEENS

Amanda Sheppard·October 19, 2017

Joey Ramone’s favorite underdog band gets another day in the sun by Amanda Sheppard Last week, Girlsville Records released The Prissteens: Demos & Rarities Volume 2. Produced by Please Kill Me’s James “The Hound” Marshall, Demos & Rarities features previously unreleased...

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ALLEN GINSBERG SINGS! AND SO DO MANY OTHER BEAT POETS!

Alan Bisbort·October 18, 2017

Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Patchen, Kandel, Waldman, Nordine and Young could have been a Supergroup In 1948, Allen Ginsberg had what he called an “auditory hallucination” while reading the poem “Ah! Sun-flower (Weary of Time)” by William Blake (1757-1827). Ginsberg was, at...

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HAROLD PENDLETON, FOUNDER OF LONDON’S MARQUEE CLUB AND READING FESTIVAL DIES AT 93

Mary Karmelek·October 17, 2017

Harold Pendleton, the founder of the legendary Marquee Club and the Reading Festival, has passed away at the age of 93 after a short illness. By Mary Karmelek The path to great rock ‘n’ roll venues can take strange and unexpected...

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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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BLOOD AND GUTS: THE REBIRTH OF KATHY ACKER

VAMPIRES, HIPPIES, NINJAS AND YODAS: FOUND PHOTOS IN HONOR OF HALLOWEEN

GLAM SLAM BOLAN BASH

HALLOWEEN HORROR FROM REAL AMERICAN LIFE

EVERYTHING IS COMBUSTIBLE: A CONVERSATION WITH TELEVISION’S RICHARD LLOYD

DRAG QUEEN FESTIVAL

PHOTOS FROM HALLOWEEN PARTY WITH STRANGE ASIAN DEATH CULT!

WHEN COMICS BECAME COMIX

BORN AGAIN BOB – BOB DYLAN’S GOSPEL ERA

THE SECRET LIFE OF SILLY PUTTY

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PRISSTEENS

ALLEN GINSBERG SINGS! AND SO DO MANY OTHER BEAT POETS!

HAROLD PENDLETON, FOUNDER OF LONDON’S MARQUEE CLUB AND READING FESTIVAL DIES AT 93

SAM CUTLER: LIFE WITH THE STONES, THE DEAD & OTHER WONDERFUL REPROBATES

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THE KNACK … AND HOW TO GET IT: AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESCOTT NILES

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