BOSTON’S NERVOUS EATERS ARE STILL HUNGRY
Coming out of the pre-punk Boston rock & roll scene, Nervous Eaters were as tight and professional as...
Musicians
PETER LAUGHNER: AN UNFINISHED LIFE
Cleveland’s vital and unsung punk scene would not be complete without a chapter on Peter Laughner. Laughner, who...
Q: WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT NOISE? A: XTC!
Mark Fisher explores the unique appeal of XTC’s musical legacy in What Do You Call That Noise?: An...
JANET HOUSDEN: STRAIGHT OUTTA SOUTH BAY PUNK
A fixture in the earliest days of the LA area punk scene, Janet Housden played drums with Redd...
ROCK & ROLL: IS ‘MAKING IT’ A THING ANYMORE?
With Spotify, Bandcamp, iTunes, Facebook, YouTube, and personal blogs, it has never been easier to make music and...
NEVER IDLE IDOL: NIKKI CORVETTE JUST KEEPS ROLLING
Nikki imagined the Corvettes to be the Shangri-meet-The-Ramones—bubblegum punk, for lack of a better term. Her longevity, kindred...
FROM ROLLING THUNDER TO STUBBORN HEART: LARRY “RATSO” SLOMAN TELLS ALL
The resume of Larry “Ratso” Sloman is epic: editor of National Lampoon, collaborator with John Cale and Lou...
Women of Rock Unite!: Oral History Project founder/director Tanya Pearson Explains How
Frustrated over a lack of sources about women rock musicians, a Smith College grad student decided to go...
STEALING STIV BATORS
Model and singer Bebe Buell fell into Stiv’s arms in the wake of her romances with Todd Rundgren,...
Iggy Pop, Bare & Real: A Photographic Portrait by Paul McAlpine
As a preteen in Boston, Paul McAlpine was taking his camera to rock shows; by 1977, he went...
Newly Released Bowie Demos Reveal a Never-Before-Heard “Space Oddity” and More
A previously unreleased batch of demos from the late 1960s reveals David Bowie groping toward the sound, vision...
Bernard Fowler: 20 Feet From Jagger
After 30 years of vocal work with The Rolling Stones, Bernard Fowler is releasing an album of his...
Linda Gail Lewis: The Killer’s Little Sister Gets Her Own Groove
She was driving a car at 11, married (for the first of 8 times) by 14 and joined...
Lost and Found: Roy Harper
In the best of all possible worlds, a man who has made music with the likes of Led...