PRETENDERS DRUMMER MARTIN CHAMBERS REMEMBERS GUITARIST JAMES HONEYMAN-SCOTT
Interview with The Pretenders’ Drummer Martin Chambers on the early years of the band, their late guitarist James...
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BREAKING ON THROUGH – THE DOORS AT DANBURY HIGH
50 Years Ago, The Doors played in a Connecticut high school gym, second-billed to a beauty pageant, and...
MODERN LOVERS BASSIST ERNIE BROOKS ON RECORDING THEIR CLASSIC ALBUM
Ernie Brooks, bassist and founding member of The Modern Lovers, talks to Legs McNeil about the origins of...
JAILHOUSE ROCK
Five musicians who served jail time in their prime – for drug smuggling, armed robbery, weapons charges and...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe Takes You Down By the Riverside
Guitar wizard, rock & roll pioneer and gospel-blues giant Rosetta Tharpe was not tilting at windmills; she WAS...
ROKY ERICKSON AND DEATH VALLEY GIRLS AT BROOKLYN’S ROUGH TRADE!
Roky Erickson performs 13th Floor Elevators hits and his “Rock & Roll Horror” solo work at Rough Trade...
REMEMBERING HÜSKER DÜ’S GRANT HART
Laurie Lindeen shares her remembrances of Grant Hart, Hüsker Dü’s drummer and co-songwriter, who passed away on September 13,...
Cheetah Chrome Is Back and He Will Never Use Ear Plugs
The Dead Boys Have Come Again for America’s Children in 2017 In this case, the metaphor is not...
UNEXPECTEDLY GREAT COVERS OF FAMILIAR SONGS
When is a cover song better than the original? Is it flattery or just a cheap rip-off? Please...
BESIDE BOWIE: THE MICK RONSON STORY
Mick Ronson played beside David Bowie, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, and many others, and he finally receives his...
NOT THE SAME AFTER THAT: ROCK & ROLL ACID CASUALTIES
Please Kill Me profiles 5 “crazy diamonds” – brilliant musicians whose careers were derailed after becoming acid casualties...
TOO MUCH JUNKIE BUSINESS: A JOHNNY THUNDERS STORY
by Billy Sedlmayr ‘Johnny Thunder lives on water, feeds on lightning. Johnny Thunder don’t need no one, don’t want money....
INTERVIEW WITH BLONDIE DRUMMER CLEM BURKE! (PART TWO)
Blondie’s Clem Burke on touring with Iggy Pop, his favorite NYC clubs of the ‘70s, and his personal...
16 ANTI-FASCIST & DYSTOPIAN SONGS THAT REMIND US WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
Trump’s saber rattling and Nazi-coddling has the nation on edge, but these songs are reminders of earlier moments...