BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE: TRUTH, JUSTICE & BUFFY’S WAY
Born on the Piapot Plains Cree First Nation Reserve in Saskatchewan, Buffy Sainte-Marie was raised by adoptive parents...
Musicians
THE LOST TESTAMENT OF SAM BUTERA: THE RISE & FALL OF ‘THE WILDEST SHOW IN VEGAS’
Sax player and arranger Sam Butera was ‘Keith Richards to Louis Prima’s Mick Jagger’ once he joined the...
PINK FAIRIES: THE COSMIC ROCK FUZZ OF PUNK’S PIONEERS
The story of the Pink Fairies is like a trip down a rabbit hole into a psychedelicized wonderland...
JONI MITCHELL: THE FIRST FIVE YEARS
Despite being regarded as one of her generation’s greatest singer-songwriters, Joni Mitchell labored in relative obscurity for years...
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA-THE TANGO ASSASSIN AT 100
The Argentine musical master Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) was a disrupter, in the manner of Stravinsky, the Dadaists, Bob...
SKULL FORMING: TIM WRIGHT AFTER PERE UBU
Years ago, the celebrated composer and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp got to know and perform with Tim Wright, the...
JUNIOR KIMBROUGH’S JUKE JOINT: KEEPING DIRTY BLUES ALIVE
During the 1990s, a legendary but crumbling juke joint in the northern Mississippi hills kept the ‘dirty blues’...
JOHN TAYLOR: STILL IN THE PLEASURE GROOVE WITH DURAN DURAN
John Taylor is the bass guitarist in Duran Duran, a band that stormed out of the New Romantic...
MARISKA VERES: BEYOND ‘VENUS’ AND SHOCKING BLUE
One scene in the miniseries The Queen’s Gambit was all it took to put the Dutch rock band...
DON VAN VLIET AND FRANK ZAPPA: TWO PEAS IN A MISSHAPEN POD
Guitarist Gary Lucas found himself smack dab in the middle of two of America’s musical geniuses, Don ‘n’...
LIFE AS A COSMOPOLITAN: GIRLS GONE GO-GO, NYC, 1977-‘82
Jamie K. Sims studied music composition and dance at UNC, then moved to New York City in 1977,...
ALICE BAG: AN L.A. PUNK LEGEND
Alicia Armendariz (aka Alice Bag) is a Los Angeles punk legend, not just for her groundbreaking first band...
JIMI HENDRIX IN MAUI: GOING FAR BEYOND RAINBOW BRIDGE
We can’t think of any better person to ring in the new year at PKM than Jimi Hendrix....
TIGHTEN UP: ARCHIE BELL TAPS INTO A TIMELESS GROOVE
Like a much-needed vaccine of good-time dance music during the darkest days of 1968, Archie Bell’s “Tighten Up”...