SAVAGE IMPRESSIONS: BRUCE LICHER & INDEPENDENT PROJECT RECORDS Richie Unterberger·May 13, 2020Bruce Licher’s rise to the top of post-punk graphic design began in 1980 as a means to package...All Please Kill Me PostsArtInterviewsRecord LabelsRichie Unterberger·2 Comments
HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT: UNRAVELING A MYSTERY Jim Powell·July 2, 2020Jeff Krulik and John Heyn’s 1986 film Heavy Metal Parking Lot has become an unlikely cult classic. In...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfDocumentary FilmFilmHeavy MetalInterviews·1 Comment
VIOLENT FEMMES: NO NORMAL BAND John Kruth·July 27, 2020Born in the wake of a legendarily disruptive high school performance and culminating in a near riot at...All Please Kill Me PostsJohn KruthMusicians·1 Comment
PETER GREEN: THE END OF THE GAME (RIP) Gary Lucas·August 3, 2020Peter Green, inheritor of Eric Clapton’s spot in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and co-founder of Fleetwood Mac, was, said...All Please Kill Me PostsMusiciansR.I.P.·0 Comments
CASSIE RAMONE: RETURN OF A VIVIAN GIRL Austin Brookner·August 18, 2020Taking their name from a profoundly strange book by outsider artist Henry Darger, the Brooklyn-based trio Vivian Girls...All Please Kill Me PostsGirl PowerInterviewsMusicians·0 Comments
REMINDER RECORDS: JEREMY THOMPSON’S LOVE OF LOST RECORDS Eric Davidson·August 24, 2020After his first vinyl reissues label, Sing Sing Records, was laid to rest in 2014, Jeremy Thompson couldn’t...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleEric DavidsonRecord Labels·0 Comments
BEAT SURRENDER: RECLAIMING THE LEGACY OF LUCIEN CARR Catherine de Leon·October 5, 2020Lucien Carr wasn’t just the person who brought Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs together in...All Please Kill Me PostsHistory·7 Comments
LUC SANTE: CHRONICLER OF NEW YORK’S ‘LOW LIFE’ Eric Davidson·December 14, 2020As a chronicler of New York’s underside and forgotten histories, Luc Sante walked straight out of the pages...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksCool PeopleEric DavidsonInterviews·0 Comments
RUBBERHEAD: AKRON’S LASTING IMPACT ON CHUCK STATLER, GODFATHER OF MUSIC VIDEO JP Olsen·January 26, 2021Chuck Statler started his long career in innovative and influential music video by collaborating with his classmates and...All Please Kill Me PostsFilmInterviewsVIDEO·1 Comment
RICHARD HELL: THE PAST AND PRESENT OF DESTINY STREET James Marshall·March 24, 2021Richard Hell and the Voidoids are best-known for their debut album, the masterful Blank Generation (1977). Before completely...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleInterviewsJames MarshallMusicians·4 Comments
LISA FANCHER: STEERING PUNK’S FINAL FRONTIER IN LA Tony Mostrom·February 3, 2020Often overlooked by punk history’s gatekeepers, Lisa Fancher’s venerable Frontier Records label is celebrating 40 years of important...All Please Kill Me PostsAnthony MostromBest OfHistoryInterviews·1 Comment
PAGING V. VALE: STILL RE/SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH Amanda Sheppard·September 9, 2019Countercultural anthropologist and founding member of Blue Cheer, V. Vale has documented the 1970s San Francisco punk scene...All Please Kill Me PostsAmanda SheppardCool PeopleInterviewsNewsPublishing·10 Comments
TAKE MY MOTHER IN LAW…PLEASE: CAROL O’SHAUGHNESSY Alan Bisbort·November 25, 2021Thanksgiving is the best holiday on the calendar. It’s a non-denominational, non-political, non-threatening time when we ponder things...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleEditors' PicksMusicians·0 Comments
DON VAN VLIET AND FRANK ZAPPA: TWO PEAS IN A MISSHAPEN POD Gary Lucas·January 14, 2021Guitarist Gary Lucas found himself smack dab in the middle of two of America’s musical geniuses, Don ‘n’...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfHistoryMusicians·6 Comments