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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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LOU REED AND VACLAV HAVEL, 1990: WHEN THE VU FUELED THE VELVET REVOLUTION

Ingrid Marie Jensen·June 2, 2021

Lou Reed visited Czechoslovakia in 1990, months after the country was freed from Soviet rule. The writer and dissident Václav Havel was, by then, the country’s president and Frank Zappa its “Special Ambassador to the West on Trade, Culture and...

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VONG CO: GUITAR SOUNDS FROM VIETNAM TO THE U.S.

Elliott Sharp·June 1, 2021

After the Vietnam War, refugees from Southeast Asia began making their way to the U.S. These new citizens brought their cultures, of course, which cross-pollinated with American influences but retained distinctive aspects of their pasts, including music and instrumentation. Guitarist...

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BORDER RADIO: THE LONG RIDE OF AN L.A. CULT CLASSIC

Kurt Voss·May 31, 2021

Director Kurt Voss (Down and Out with The Dolls, Ghost on the Highway) got his start after film school with Border Radio, co-written/co-directed with Allison Anders and Dean Lent, and starring Chris D. (Desjardins), John Doe, Luana Anders and Dave...

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SOUNDMAN CONFIDENTIAL: FRANK X. GALLAGHER ON TALKING HEADS, RAMONES, PLASMATICS AND MORE

Gregory Daurer·May 27, 2021

Frank X. Gallagher is best known as a sound engineer for the likes of Talking Heads, B-52s, Buddy Guy and many others, but he’s also been a record producer, band manager, roadie, road manager, booker and audio engineer at Irving...

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VIVIAN STANSHALL: BEYOND THE BONZO DOG BAND

Gary Lucas·May 26, 2021

Vivian Stanshall was the strikingly eccentric ringleader of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, often described as the UK’s version of the Mothers of Invention. Affecting the manner of an aristocrat, Viv actually hailed from London’s East End, and his...

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LARRY FLYNT FOR PRESIDENT: NADIA SZOLD’S NEW DOCUMENTARY

Zack Kopp·May 25, 2021

Nadia Szold’s documentary Larry Flynt for President was scheduled to have its premiere last year. But COVID put the kibosh on that. In the interim, the subject of the film, free speech crusader and Hustler Magazine founder Larry Flynt, died...

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AMERICAN MASSACRE: TULSA 1921

Alan Bisbort·May 24, 2021

One hundred years ago, the deadliest white-on-black crime in U.S. history took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Not only were hundreds killed in mob violence, but one of the most prosperous Black neighborhoods in America was obliterated, and thousands more Tulsans...

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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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SAN FRANCISCO: A HISTORY IN ROCK AND ROLL

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