HEAVY RAIN: THE EXODUS OF LEE ‘SCRATCH’ PERRY Amanda Sheppard·February 25, 2020If there was a Mount Rushmore for reggae, Lee “Scratch” Perry’s would be one of faces carved on...All Please Kill Me PostsAmanda SheppardInterviewsMusicians·0 Comments
JAH WOBBLE: TUNED TO THE POWER OF THE UNIVERSE Robert Gourley·March 19, 2020A school mate of John Lydon’s, Jah Wobble (John Wardle) was still a teenager when he joined Public...All Please Kill Me PostsInterviewsMusiciansRobert Gourley·0 Comments
WERE WE ALL BRAINWASHED BY THE CIA WITH SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK & ROLL? Joseph L. Flatley·April 14, 2020Did you know that LSD and hippies were invented by the CIA in the 1960s? No? Well, the...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfHistoryJoseph L. FlatleyMusicians·15 Comments
THE MEKONS: STILL THRIVING ON LOW EXPECTATIONS Mark Jacobson·June 30, 2020The punk-era holdouts The Mekons, originally from the UK but now scattered worldwide, were set to reunite to...All Please Kill Me PostsInterviewsMark JacobsonMusicians·0 Comments
FAMILY GUY: THE LEGACY OF SPALDING GRAY Benito Vila·July 21, 2020When monologist-actor-writer-philosopher Spalding Gray departed this planet in 2004, he left behind timeless works like Swimming to Cambodia,...All Please Kill Me PostsBenito VilaInterviews·0 Comments
SOME LATE WORDS: ALLEN GINSBERG John Kruth·August 13, 2020Musician and writer John Kruth met with Allen Ginsberg two months before the great poet’s death. He was...All Please Kill Me PostsInterviewsJohn KruthPoetry·1 Comment
SAN FRANCISCO PUNK PRANKSTERS: PINK SECTION, INFLATABLE BOY CLAMS Richie Unterberger·August 19, 2020Influenced by the punk scene centered at Mabuhay Gardens, and the fun, bohemian spirit of a city that...All Please Kill Me PostsHistoryInterviewsMusiciansRichie Unterberger·3 Comments
EWOLF: LIVING IN A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD Eric Davidson·September 15, 2020A Detroit-based photographer who was also in the hardcore punk trio Angry Red Planet, Ewolf began documenting the...All Please Kill Me PostsEric DavidsonHistoryMusiciansPhotography·2 Comments
LIFE AS A COSMOPOLITAN: GIRLS GONE GO-GO, NYC, 1977-‘82 Jamie K Sims·January 11, 2021Jamie K. Sims studied music composition and dance at UNC, then moved to New York City in 1977,...All Please Kill Me PostsDanceHistoryMusicians·0 Comments
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA-THE TANGO ASSASSIN AT 100 John Kruth·February 10, 2021The Argentine musical master Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) was a disrupter, in the manner of Stravinsky, the Dadaists, Bob...All Please Kill Me PostsJohn KruthMusicians·0 Comments
DAVID HENDERSON: BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT CO-FOUNDER AND THE ‘VOODOO CHILD’ John Pietaro·February 23, 2021David Henderson, poet, writer and voice, knew and worked with giants like Ornette Coleman, Langston Hughes, Sun Ra,...ActivismAll Please Kill Me PostsArtInterviewsJohn PietaroPoetry·0 Comments
NANCY BARILE: HARDCORE WAS NOT A BOYS’ CLUB Jen B. Larson·March 16, 2021Nancy Barile was, along with countless other women in the city in the early 1980s, an integral part...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksGirl PowerInterviewsJen B. Larson·0 Comments
DAVID AMRAM: ON KEROUAC, GINSBERG, MINGUS, SPIRIT AND FAMILY Noah Lekas·April 22, 2021Composer David Amram, now 90, has worked with some of the jazz greats, including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins,...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleFilmHistoryInterviews·1 Comment
ARE WE NOT DEVO? Benny Munday·April 5, 2018DEVO creator, multi-instrumentalist, performance artist and conceptual genius Gerald Casale’s ideas about human de-evolution, which grew out of...All Please Kill Me PostsBenjamin MundayBest OfHistoryInterviewsMusicians·6 Comments