RICHARD THOMPSON: WHY DON’T THEY KNOW?
The supremely talented guitarist, writer and singer of both grimly funny and beautifully romantic songs, co-founder of Fairport...
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BEFORE AND BEYOND GOTH: THE DARK SIDE OF ROCK & ROLL
This Halloween, let your playlist reflect the fact that rock & roll has always been permeated with occult...
POISON IVY OF THE CRAMPS: UNCROWNED QUEEN OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
Poison Ivy Rorschach, lead guitarist, songwriter, arranger, producer and sometime vocalist of one of the greatest bands in...
IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY: THE ORIGINAL LINDA LAFLAMME REMEMBERS
It’s A Beautiful Day, with their soaring, unforgettable “White Bird,” were an anomaly among bands of the San...
‘PUB ROCK’ WAS MORE THAN A LABEL
Wilko Johnson (Dr. Feelgood) and Dave Tice (Buffalo, Count Bishops) talk to PKM and give us the scoop...
BADFINGER: THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF ‘THE NEXT BEATLES’
Signed to Apple with direct hands-on help from all of the Beatles, particularly Paul (who gave them “Come...
HARLEM OF THE WEST: SAN FRANCISCO’S FILLMORE DISTRICT
Before the hippies swarmed in to reshape America’s counterculture—and before the city embarked on a disastrous urban renewal...
CARLA BLEY: LIFE GOES ON, SO DOES MUSIC
Composer, pianist and activist Carla Bley was, from an early age, a rebel, turning her back on music...
10 ROCK BANDS YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF BUT SHOULD DEFINITELY CHECK OUT
Is good old Rock ‘n’ Roll dead? When was the last time you heard a new rock band...
JAMES WILLIAMSON AND DENIZ TEK: TWO TO ONE
When two major guitar wielders with the rock ‘n’ roll pedigrees of James “The Skull” Williamson and Deniz...
HOLLY KNIGHT: BUSTING OUT OF SPIDER’S WEB
Known for hits she later wrote for Tina Turner (“Better Be Good to Me”), Pat Benatar (“Love is...
ROD EVANS: DEEP IN THE PURPLE
Rod Evans, original lead singer of hard-rocking Deep Purple, walked away from the music business in the late...
EWOLF: LIVING IN A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD
A Detroit-based photographer who was also in the hardcore punk trio Angry Red Planet, Ewolf began documenting the...
BACHIR ATTAR AND THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA
Though Brian Jones brought world-wide notice to these Moroccan master musicians in the early 1970s, their tradition goes...