THE GUN CLUB DOWN UNDER
Gun Club, led by the mercurial Jeffrey Lee Pierce, were booked for a month-long tour of Australia in late...
Musicians
RUTH UNDERWOOD: A MOTHER OF INVENTION
An integral part of Frank Zappa’s band the Mothers of Invention, Ruth Underwood stayed mostly in the background...
TEA IN THE SAHARA WITH PAUL BOWLES
While a college student on a semester abroad in Spain, Ken Krayeske made a quixotic trip to Morocco...
A LOOK AT PUNK, METAL, EXTREME MUSIC AND MENTAL HEALTH
Musicians of all stripes suffer from mental health issues, just like everyone else on this planet. However, they...
CHASING DOWN THE WANDERER: THIRTY MINUTES WITH DION
Dion DiMucci is rock ‘n’ roll’s ageless wonder. In his 80s now, he continues to amaze and inspire...
JOHN LURIE AND THE HISTORY OF BONES
Writer, musician, actor and artist John Lurie is at the center of many indelible images from a certain...
KIRA ROESSLER: THE ROAD FROM BLACK FLAG
Playing bass for Black Flag (1983-85) was just the start of an impressive and eclectic resume that has...
ROBERT QUINE & JODY HARRIS PLAN THEIR ESCAPE
While members of the Richard Hell & the Voidoids and the Contortions, respectively, Robert Quine and Jody Harris...
LIKE A VIRGIN: WHEN RICHARD BRANSON’S LABEL MATTERED
The success of Mike Oldfield’s album, Tubular Bells (1973) immediately put Virgin Records, Richard Branson’s brand new label,...
ARTHUR BROWN’S CRAZY WORLD: TIME HAS COME FOR KINGDOM COME
Arthur Brown, after announcing to the world, in 1969, “I am the god of hellfire…,” climbed the charts...
CANCEL CULTURE: STARRING IGGY, JANIS, ZAPPA & OTHERS
Long before it became a conversation-stopping mantra of the extremist right wing, ‘cancel culture’ visited rock ‘n’ roll...
XTC’S COLIN MOULDING STILL MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL (AND HIMSELF)
Colin Moulding and Andy Partridge formed the nucleus of XTC, the post-punk band who seemed to corner the...
JOHN PEEL AND THE WEIRD WORLD OF DANDELION RECORDS
The legendary BBC DJ John Peel is rightly recalled for championing new, obscure and overlooked musical artists. He...
THE RUBINOOS HAD FUN, FUN, FUN: AN INTERVIEW WITH JON RUBIN
The Berkeley-based Rubinoos were playing rock ‘n’ roll with pop hooks and vocal harmonies long before the record...