ELVIS OR ORION?: A STAR IS REBORN
Sixty-five years ago this summer, Sun Records released a single (“That’s All Right” b/w “Blue Moon of Kentucky”)...
Musicians
LOST AND FOUND: SANDY DENNY
Sandy Denny (1947-1978) had one of the most remarkable voices in British folk-rock as well as superior songwriting...
LOST AND FOUND: KAREN DALTON
Though she has been dead for more than a quarter-century, Karen Dalton, a staple of the Greenwich Village...
SIDEWINDER: THE MURDER OF LEE MORGAN
The jazz trumpeter extraordinaire was a prodigy who inherited the musical mantle of Clifford Brown, as well as...
JOHN CALE : THE MIDWIFE OF PUNK ROCK
It is Billy Hough’s passionate belief that our musical world would be a different place if this brilliant...
DEKE DICKERSON: MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR!
Because he’s so good on the guitar, the Missouri native’s million other hats are often overlooked in the...
DAVID J.: GOING FAR BEYOND BAUHAUS
The bass player and biographer of the beloved post-punk band [Who Killed Mister Moonlight: Bauhaus, Black Magick, and...
PETER STAMPFEL: THE LAST HOLY MODAL ROUNDER TELLS ALL
At 80, the tireless and talented fiddle, banjo and guitar player, Ur-punk provocateur, former Rounder, Fug, devotee of...
GRAHAM PARKER: DON’T ASK ME QUESTIONS
Navigating the terrain between pub rock and punk rock, Parker and his red-hot band The Rumour, with Nick...
ALLISON WOLFE: ROOTS OF THE RIOT GRRRL MOVEMENT
Allison Wolfe has been inspiring grrrls, girls and women since the early 1990s when she co-founded the Riot...
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD: SISTER OF THE DUST, SISTER OF OUR HEARTS
Christine Ohlman, the Beehive Queen of blue-eyed rock & soul, pays homage to Dusty Springfield, one of her greatest...
ANNI HOGAN: THE SUPER SOLO COLLABORATIONIST
As a solo artist and a collaborator (with Lydia Lunch, Nick Cave, Kid Congo Powers, Nico, Gene Pitney,...
A BUBBLING CAULDRON: THE ELECTRO-PSYCHEDELIC SAGA OF FIFTY FOOT HOSE
1960s Bay Area pioneers Fifty Foot Hose were too far out even for the hippies (think: Jefferson Airplane...
LOU REED: FREEING THE ROCK & ROLL ANIMAL
When Steve Katz, late of Blood Sweat & Tears and the Blues Project, signed on to produce some...