PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF PKM FOR 2021, PART II
By PKM Editors These are the TOP TEN STORIES for the year on PKM, our toppermost of the...
Musicians
PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF 2021, PART I
Put another log on the fire, top that tankard of coffee, tea and/or antibiotics, and kick back with Please...
INSIDE CAFÉ SOCIETY: NYC’S FIRST INTEGRATED NIGHTCLUB
When Café Society opened as a cabaret in Greenwich Village in December 1938, it was one of the...
SHEL TALMY’S SONIC ODYSSEY
Shel Talmy. Just the sound of his name evokes a time when London was on the verge of...
ELLIOTT SHARP AT 70: STILL DOING THE DON’T
‘Musician’ seems a paltry way to describe Elliott Sharp because he is so many things—multi-instrumentalist (sax, clarinet, guitar),...
GOODBYE MICHAEL NESMITH: AN ENTRY FROM MY DIARY
James Grauerholz, the bibliographer and literary executor of William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), was the late writer’s friend, intimate...
SUICIDE: FIELD RECORDINGS, 1977, 1980
Alan Vega and Martin Rev, as Suicide, were the first NYC performers to use the word ‘punk’ as...
BUSH TETRAS: A HAPPY SAD CELEBRATION OF DOWNTOWN GIANTS
Bush Tetras, for some the embodiment of the Downtown music scene, are back in the public eye, for...
HYMN FOR THE DUDE: INTERVIEW WITH MORGAN FISHER
Though Morgan Fisher has enjoyed an eclectic career—from soul music/Top 40 hits and rock ‘n’ roll to art-punk...
TOM ROBINSON: STILL ON THE MOTORWAY TO A BETTER WORLD
Hidden in plain sight during the Punk heyday, a subset of musicians were singing about, and working toward,...
ECHOES FROM THE VAULT: THE AFTERLIFE OF MUSIC ESTATES
By Fiona McQuarrie Musicians all die, the great as well as the not so great, but their estates...
BEING NICO: DANNY FIELDS INTERVIEWS BIOGRAPHER JENNIFER OTTER BICKERDICKE
Jennifer Otter Bickerdike’s sparkling new book You Are Beautiful And You Are Alone: A Biography of Nico, fully...
TAKE MY MOTHER IN LAW…PLEASE: CAROL O’SHAUGHNESSY
Thanksgiving is the best holiday on the calendar. It’s a non-denominational, non-political, non-threatening time when we ponder things...
‘OUR KID’: MIKE MCCARTNEY CAPTURES THE EARLY BEATLES ON FILM
Paul McCartney’s younger brother, Michael, had a front row seat during the early days of the Quarrymen and...