Cleveland's vital and unsung punk scene would not be complete without a chapter on Peter Laughner. Laughner, who died in 1977 at the age of 24, co-founded legen...
Frustrated over a lack of sources about women rock musicians, a Smith College grad student decided to go to the sources themselves. Five years later, Tanya Pear...
Maureen Tucker had a front row seat to punk rock history being conceived before her very eyes. An average high school girl from Levittown, Long Island, her life...
An Oral History by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain
Brian Wilson: The Beatles' invasion shook me up an awfully lot. They eclipsed a lot of what we'd worked for...
Paula Mejia's article on Jean Stein and her greatest legacy, the narrative oral history, was just published in The Paris Review. Includes interviews with&n...
An Oral History of Punk By Alan Vega as told to Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain. - Quite simply, Alan Vega revolutionized rock & roll. Along with his long-time collaborator, Marty Rev, their two-piece combo, Suicide was a band about thirty years ahead of their time. ...
Philippe Marcade, Senders lead singer, talks to Legs and Gillian about his memories of Johnny Thunders and the New York Dolls, Nancy Spungen, Sid Vicious, CBGB’...
Ron and Scott Asheton were the nucleus of the Stooges, the greatest fucking punk band in the world. Having attended Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan, with Iggy Pop (né James Osterberg), the Asheton brothers were hoodlum types who attracted other punks with their erratic, wild behavior. As Iggy said of the Ashetons, “These guys were the laziest delinquent sorts of pig slobs ever born. Really spoiled rotten and babied by their mother. [Their] dad had died, so they didn’t have much discipline at home.”...
