When Jim Steinman died in April, the only thing most people knew about him was Meat Loaf. Specifically, his joined-at-the-hip relationship with the beefy singer...
Johnny Thunders and Tom Petty would seem to have little in common other than the names of their bands. However, a recent Facebook debate about the origin of tha...
By the time Jack Kerouac died at 47 in 1969, he’d exiled himself from the 1960s youth culture he’d partly inspired with the likes of On the Road and The Dharma ...
Years ago, the celebrated composer and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp got to know and perform with Tim Wright, the original bassist and co-founder of Cleve...
Sylvain Sylvain was the secret weapon of the New York Dolls, the diplomat and cheerleader who held the band together and an underrated musician and songwriter. ...
When George Harrison released his epic “triple album” on November 27, 1970, Beatle fans worldwide realized the gig was up, that no band was big enough to hold t...
The Cramps’ frontman was impossible to miss, on or off stage, the perfect foil to his equally striking partner in life and music, Poison Ivy Rorschach. Ingrid J...
Diane di Prima (1934-2020) was a poet, artist, activist and teacher who navigated countercultural landscapes of both the Beats and the Diggers and published mor...
Songwriter and musician Austin Brookner met writer Nick Tosches in 2008. The connection was Tosches’ words—both on the printed page, which Brookner had already ...
The release of Hal Willner’s final recorded project, Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T.Rex, got Gary Lippman thinking about his friend and ‘m...
Marjorie Cameron (1922-1995)—better known as ‘Cameron’—was a renegade even by the standards of L.A.’s various bohemian subcultures. An artist and occultist, she...
The death earlier this week of Walter Lure, one of the original Heartbreakers, was yet another tough blow laid on us by the year 2020. James Marshall offers a t...
A five-time W.C. Handy award-winner and the fourth generation of a venerable musical family, Jessie Mae Hemphill (1923-2006), from the North Mississippi Hill C...
Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Russia's most beloved rock & roll star. When Viktor Tsoi died in a 1990 car crash, it was, to a young pe...
