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READING WITH LEGS AND GILLIAN AT GRAND VICTORY IN BROOKLYN!

Amy Haben·May 26, 2016

This Thursday Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil will do a reading at The Grand Victory in Brooklyn. All Proceeds will go to help fund Punk Island

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TRIPPED OUT 60’S AND 70’S PAKISTANI SOUNDTRACKS!

Amy Haben·May 24, 2016

The Life Is Dance compilation is a continuance of The Sound Of Wonder compilation. The soundtracks of these Lollywood movies were made by Pakistani musicians who really loved American music. So with the groovy 60's fuzz guitar sounds that echo Hollywood films combined with the drum beats of their native land, these unique tracks were born.

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VINTAGE CLIPS OF ‘SOUL TRAIN’ DANCERS STRUTTING DOWN THE LINE!

Amy Haben·May 15, 2016

I dare you not to smile while watching these funky cats boogie down the party line. The 70's kids are my favorite as far as moves go, but the hair and outfits in the 80's clips are also priceless.

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ONE PRAYER ONE SIN RESURRECTS OLD GHOSTS!

Amy Haben·May 9, 2016

Listening to One Prayer One Sin erupts symbiotic visual reels of 70's city's streets and Travis Bickle wearing a bloody smile. Watching singer Johnny Scuotto flail his arms around hysterically while taunting the audience with a devilish grin pronounced by bare brows as he shouts and jerks around- can only properly be described as a "psychopathic Ian Curtis" dance. OPOS is a dynamic combination of the Birthday Party, the Pop Group, Brian Eno, and a distinct influence from Iggy Pop's albums of 1977, The Idiot and Lust For Life.

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MY FAVORITE GADABOUT #1, CAROL EASTMAN

Lisa Janssen·May 7, 2016

by Lisa Janssen - Carole Eastman. Contrary to the most typical gadabout, she did produce one masterwork, FIVE EASY PIECES. But so quietly that she is rarely remembered behind the towering actor and director.

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GILLIAN MCCAIN AND LEGS MCNEIL AT HOUSE OF INDEPENDENTS!

Amy Haben·May 5, 2016

To celebrate the the release of the 20th anniversary Edition of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil will be reading and signing books at the House of Independents in Asbury Park, NJ at on May 6th! The 20th Anniversary Edition of Please Kill Me will be released in May 2016 with new chapters, photos and Afterword by the authors.

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BLOOD, SACRIFICE, AND ALTARS WITH GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE!

Amy Haben·April 26, 2016

BY: AMY HABEN I’ve listened to many non-apologetic interviews with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on living as a minority sex, the inspiration behind creating psychedelia, pseudo-reality and using other mediums to fill up the existential bubble. I feel very connected to...

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IGGY POP DEFINES THE WORD ‘PUNK’ IN AN INTERVIEW AFTER DESTROYING HIS STUDIO! (1977)

Legs McNeil·April 21, 2016

Iggy Pop (Photo by Andy Kent- 1977) “At the time I was the first guy they called a punk. And they used that term for me to represent the idea of someone that wants to do something very strong and...

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“TO MY FAVORITE GANGSTER LADY”: POLAROIDS FROM PRISON

Gillian McCain·April 13, 2016

This episode of FOUND PHOTOS features Polaroids from Prison from the collection of Gillian McCain.

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DEAR NOBODY: THE TRUE DIARY OF MARY ROSE – NOW IN PAPERBACK!

Amy Haben·April 6, 2016

Get your paperback copy of Dear Nobody today!!...

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“TROUBLE BOYS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE REPLACEMENTS”

Todd McGovern·April 5, 2016

Bob Mehr, author of the new biography, “Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements,” was only 11 years old at the time, but the ‘Mats [the band’s nickname, short for Placemats] performance that night left quite an impression on his young mind.

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INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR SAMUEL KNEE ON HIS COMPENDIUM OF U.K. MUSIC AND FASHION – 1960-1990!

Amy Haben·April 4, 2016

BY GREGG FOREMAN (A.K.A RX “THE PHARMACIST”) The Bag I’m In and A Scene In Between explore the subcultures of the U.K. underground music and fashion scenes of 1960-1990. Recently, I was gifted The Bag I’m In, the follow up to...

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LEGS MCNEIL: ARTIE AND ME AT HOWL HAPPENING TONIGHT!

PKM Editor·March 31, 2016

Thursday, March 31, 2016 | 7 PM | Free Legs McNeil ARTIE AND ME Closing Event for Arturo Vega Insults Exhibition

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BOBBY BEAUSOLEIL WITH THE FREEDOM ORCHESTRA – 1978

Gillian McCain·March 29, 2016

Bobby BeauSoleil shares a rare video from 1978 when he performed Lynrrd Skynrrd's "Simple Man" with the Freedom Orchestra at the state prison in Tracy, CA. Prison rock at its finest!

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

ALL THE RAJ: HOW ‘NORWEGIAN WOOD’ UNLEASHED THE ‘INDIAN INVASION’

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

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READING WITH LEGS AND GILLIAN AT GRAND VICTORY IN BROOKLYN!

TRIPPED OUT 60’S AND 70’S PAKISTANI SOUNDTRACKS!

VINTAGE CLIPS OF ‘SOUL TRAIN’ DANCERS STRUTTING DOWN THE LINE!

ONE PRAYER ONE SIN RESURRECTS OLD GHOSTS!

MY FAVORITE GADABOUT #1, CAROL EASTMAN

GILLIAN MCCAIN AND LEGS MCNEIL AT HOUSE OF INDEPENDENTS!

BLOOD, SACRIFICE, AND ALTARS WITH GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE!

IGGY POP DEFINES THE WORD ‘PUNK’ IN AN INTERVIEW AFTER DESTROYING HIS STUDIO! (1977)

“TO MY FAVORITE GANGSTER LADY”: POLAROIDS FROM PRISON

DEAR NOBODY: THE TRUE DIARY OF MARY ROSE – NOW IN PAPERBACK!

“TROUBLE BOYS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE REPLACEMENTS”

INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR SAMUEL KNEE ON HIS COMPENDIUM OF U.K. MUSIC AND FASHION – 1960-1990!

LEGS MCNEIL: ARTIE AND ME AT HOWL HAPPENING TONIGHT!

BOBBY BEAUSOLEIL WITH THE FREEDOM ORCHESTRA – 1978

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

ALL THE RAJ: HOW ‘NORWEGIAN WOOD’ UNLEASHED THE ‘INDIAN INVASION’

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

POLY STYRENE: BREAKING DOWN THE BONDAGE

WE NEVER LEARN: GUNK PUNK IN THE 1990S