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BUCK OWENS: THE COUNTRY LINK TO CALIFORNIA TWANG

Bob Pomeroy·September 22, 2021

Buck Owens (1929-2006), legendary singer, guitarist and country music entertainer, has never really gotten his due as an influence on rock & roll. For a brief window of time, before the Beatles turned the record industry on its head, the...

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LABELLE: THE TRIO THAT BROKE ALL THE MOLDS

Fiona McQuarrie·September 21, 2021

Labelle, the trio of Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash, turned the music world on its head, with their seamless vocalizing (honed singing doo wop in Philadelphia in the 1960s), wild ‘Space Deco’ costumes and extravagant stage shows. Their...

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ROBERT DOWNEY SR.: FAREWELL TO AN UNDERGROUND FILM LEGEND

David Stewart·September 20, 2021

When Robert Downey Sr.’s Putney Swope was released in 1969, America didn’t know what hit her. A surrealistic satire, the film hit all of America’s sore spots: racism, consumerism, political and corporate corruption, and Downey became a hero to the...

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MARTIN BARRE STANDS UP: JETHRO TULL AND BEYOND

Anthony Petkovich·September 9, 2021

For an impressive span of over five decades, Martin Barre and Ian Anderson were the two constant presences in Jethro Tull. Anderson’s voice, flute and songwriting shaped the band’s vision but Barre’s stellar guitar work was the essential ingredient for...

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SONNY VINCENT: AN ORIGINAL PUNK SPIRIT, STILL INTACT

Adam Ganderson·September 8, 2021

As a teen runaway on the streets of New York, Sonny Vincent drifted to the kindred spirits in the punk scene. His original band, Testors, played CBGB and Max’s, and attracted a following before disbanding in 1981, at which point...

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MADE IN THE UK: PHOTOGRAPHER JANETTE BECKMAN

Amy Haben·September 7, 2021

After documenting the punk and post-punk scenes in the UK, Janette Beckman moved to New York in time to shoot the burgeoning rap and hip hop scenes, as well as gang life in East L.A. Amy Haben caught up with...

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IT’S THE TIME OF THE SEASON FOR COLIN BLUNSTONE & THE ZOMBIES

Valerie Simadis·September 6, 2021

The Zombies were part of the first British Invasion, along with the Beatles, the Stones, et al. What made them stand out were the delicate vocals by Colin Blunstone on hits like “She’s Not There,” “Tell Her No,” and “Time...

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SAN FRANCISCO: A HISTORY IN ROCK AND ROLL

Alan Bisbort·July 3, 2021

Mike Katz and Crispin Kott, self-described “rock and roll soulmates,” have done it again. With the recently published Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area, they’ve captured the magical city’s musical legacy with the same...

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REMEMBERING PUNK, THE MAGAZINE, MUSIC, MOMENT IN TIME

Legs McNeil·June 14, 2021

Five years after the punk wave had washed over New York and London, Legs McNeil looked back in anger and awe at what it had wrought. In this story from his archive—a version of which was published in High Times...

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SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY: WHY MARIANNE FAITHFULL MATTERS

Sharon M. Hannon·June 10, 2021

Marianne Faithfull has had a long, fascinating career since her days as the ‘It Girl’ of the Swingin’ London scene in the 1960s. Indeed, her best and far more interesting work has been done since those sometimes scandalous days. Tanya...

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IRA ROBBINS: TROUSER PRESS, LASTING IMPACT & LIFE THEREAFTER

Richie Unterberger·June 9, 2021

Ira Robbins began publishing Trouser Press in 1974 for all the right reasons: love of music on the margins, Anglophilia, fun. That he and co-founders Dave Schulps and Karen Rose didn’t know what they were doing was all the more...

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LOOKING WEST WITH LARRY MCMURTRY

Benito Vila·June 8, 2021

The writer and bookseller Larry McMurtry, who died earlier this year at 84, was a Texas native best known for film adaptations of his novels The Last Picture Show, Horseman, Pass By (Hud), Terms of Endearment and Lonesome Dove. PKM’s...

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DAVID GREENBERGER: BEYOND DUPLEX PLANET

Alan Bisbort·June 7, 2021

What began in 1979 for David Greenberger as a D.I.Y. newsletter for the residents at a Boston nursing home became, over the decades, an international oasis called Duplex Planet. Intelligent life on this planet includes Robyn Hitchcock, Dave Alvin, XTC,...

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NILS LOFGREN: ROCK’S MOST VALUABLE PLAYER

Parke Puterbaugh·June 3, 2021

Nils Lofgren has been both a bandleader and a team player, and is equally accomplished in both roles. He has fronted his own band, Grin, and another throughout his 40-year solo career, but he has also been a valued member...

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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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