TAV FALCO: UTOPIAN ANARCHIST IN CUBAN HEELS
Tav Falco is a musician, photographer, filmmaker, and writer, who has led the psychedelic rock group Panther Burns since 1979. Todd McGovern talks...
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BUST AN ATTITUDE: THE MAGAZINE THAT IS FIERCE, FUNNY, AND PROUD TO BE FEMALE
As the groundbreaking women’s lifestyle magazine and website enter their 26th year, the nation lurches toward some dystopian...
MOBY GRAPE: STILL SHINING IN THE SHADOWS
This hard luck band was one of the originals of the 1960s Bay Area ‘sound’. At their peak,...
PRIDE TV: THE QUIET GAY HEROES OF SIXTIES SITCOMS
The faces of these three actors were familiar to Baby Boomers raised on TV situation comedies. Their private...
THE MURDER OF ALFALFA
Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer was the most popular star of the classic Our Gang comedies. But the facts of...
PENELOPE SPHEERIS: FILMING ROCK & ROLL
Penelope Spheeris jolted the cinema world with her debut feature The Decline of Western Civilization in 1981, a...
KICKING ASH: FRANK SECICH OF BLUE ASH AND DEAD BOYS, REVISITS HIS POWER POP ROOTS
Signed to Mercury the same time as the New York Dolls, Ohio-based Blue Ash was part of a...
SLASH RECORDS, OR LET’S HAVE A WAR
Slash, the indispensable fanzine that charted the Los Angeles punk scene (1977-80), gave birth to a record label...
MALCOLM MCLAREN: JEWISH MANAGER AS PROFESSIONAL TROUBLEMAKER
A new doorstopper-sized (900+ pages) biography of Malcolm McLaren by Paul Gorman got musician Gary Lucas thinking about...
FREAK POWER!: WHEN HUNTER S. THOMPSON RAN FOR SHERIFF
In 1970, Hunter S. Thompson ran for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado and came within 300 votes of...
ALL THINGS MUST PASS AT 50: GEORGE HARRISON’S INNER LIGHT SHINES ON
When George Harrison released his epic “triple album” on November 27, 1970, Beatle fans worldwide realized the gig...
BILLY HINSCHE HAS HAD A BLAST: FROM TEEN POP STARDOM TO THE BEACH BOYS
While attending Good Shepherd Catholic School in Beverly Hills, Billy Hinsche befriended classmates Dino Martin and Desi Arnaz...
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...
DAVID HENDERSON: BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT CO-FOUNDER AND THE ‘VOODOO CHILD’
David Henderson, poet, writer and voice, knew and worked with giants like Ornette Coleman, Langston Hughes, Sun Ra,...