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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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PRETENDERS DRUMMER MARTIN CHAMBERS REMEMBERS GUITARIST JAMES HONEYMAN-SCOTT

Valerie Simadis·October 17, 2017

Interview with The Pretenders’ Drummer Martin Chambers on the early years of the band, their late guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and original bassist Pete Farndon. James Honeyman-Scott was a founding member and original lead guitarist of the band The Pretenders. He...

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HOW WOMEN SAVED THE LIFE OF AMERICAN COMEDY

Mary Werblin·October 16, 2017

Funny ladies have been prescribing laughter since the days of Fanny Brice If laughter is the best medicine, comediennes have been America’s finest doctors for the past century. A sense of humor in women was, for millennia, believed to be...

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I GET AROUND – WHEN GLEN CAMPBELL REPLACED BRIAN WILSON IN THE BEACH BOYS!

Legs McNeil·October 12, 2017

An Oral History by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain Brian Wilson: The Beatles’ invasion shook me up an awfully lot. They eclipsed a lot of what we’d worked for, eclipsed the whole music world. We were very threatened by the...

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BREAKING ON THROUGH – THE DOORS AT DANBURY HIGH

Charles Monagan·October 11, 2017

50 Years Ago, The Doors played in a Connecticut high school gym, second-billed to a beauty pageant, and WE WERE THERE… by Charles Monagan If we’ve been fortunate in life, we’ve gotten to witness some of the cultural bomb-throwing moments...

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MODERN LOVERS BASSIST ERNIE BROOKS ON RECORDING THEIR CLASSIC ALBUM

Legs McNeil·October 10, 2017

Ernie Brooks, bassist and founding member of The Modern Lovers, talks to Legs McNeil about the origins of the band, recording their classic (and only!) album, and decodes some of their songs Ernie Brooks as told to Legs McNeil Ernie...

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TRIPPING OUT AT THE MOVIES

PKM Editor·October 9, 2017

A Compendium of the Best Psychedelic Cinema of the 1960s By Isabella Moulton Many of us look back at the 1960s fondly and vicariously, through our modern eyes, but what is it about this period in history that we find...

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THE MAKE-UP AND SUICIDE’S MARTIN REV AT SOUTH STREET SEAPORT

Amy Haben·October 5, 2017

All photos and video by Amy Haben It was old home week at South Street Seaport on Sept. 7, and we’re not talking about fish. We’re talking leather jackets and heavy-fringed heads descending upon the iconic Seaport’s music festival to...

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LIFE AS A PUNK ROCK TRUCKER

PKM Editor·October 4, 2017

Joanna shares her experiences of two years on the road as a trucker – witnessing fistfights, stabbings, tornados, exhibitionists – and catching punk and metal shows in the downtime All text and photos by Joanna Johnston “Hey, wanna quit your...

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JAILHOUSE ROCK

Alan Bisbort·October 3, 2017

Five musicians who served jail time in their prime – for drug smuggling, armed robbery, weapons charges and more… “It’s no fun when that iron door clangs shut on you.” – Deputy Barney Fife to a group of youngsters on...

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WHEN BEATNIKS BEGAT HIPPIES BEGAT PUNKS

Alan Bisbort·October 2, 2017

Ed Sanders of The Fugs bridges the gap between 3 very influential, uniquely American subcultures – Beats, hippies and punks For the past four years, I have taught a course at the University of Connecticut-Waterbury called “Beatniks vs. Hippies? No...

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HUGH HEFNER WAS MORE THAN A GIRLIE MAGAZINE PUBLISHER

Alan Bisbort·September 28, 2017

The bathrobe-and-pipe stereotype was just a weird disguise for a shy Midwesterner As we all know, most red-blooded American males purchased Playboy magazine for the articles. This is a good thing because its publisher, Hugh Hefner, who died at his...

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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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