MIDGE URE: FROM RICH KIDS TO ULTRAVOX TO SAVING THE WORLD Robert Gourley·December 12, 2019Co-founder (with Bob Geldof) of Band Aid and Live Aid, the multi-talented Glaswegian Midge Ure once turned down...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleHistoryInterviewsRobert Gourley·0 Comments
WINTER KILLS: HOW THE JFK ASSASSINATION CONSPIRACY THEORIES DROVE A NATION INSANE Mark Jacobson·March 2, 2020Based on a novel by Richard Condon, the feature film Winter Kills (1979) reimagined the JFK assassination and...All Please Kill Me PostsFilmHistory·2 Comments
BODY SLAM: PRO WRESTLING VS. ROCK & ROLL, A CAGE MATCH Fiona McQuarrie·March 4, 2020The influence of professional wrestling on the music industry has seldom been examined. Consider, for starters, the rock...All Please Kill Me PostsFiona McQuarrieMusicians·1 Comment
PETER TOWNSHEND, KEN RUSSELL & TOMMY THE MOVIE 45 YEARS LATER David Stewart·April 15, 2020The Who’s 1969 double-album Tommy is generally considered the first ‘rock opera’ (cases could, of course, be made...All Please Kill Me PostsFilmHistory·4 Comments
BEYOND 2-TONE WITH FISHBONE AND ANGELO MOORE Zack Kopp·April 21, 2020Fishbone was one of the most eclectic bands to come out of the LA punk scene, drawing on...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleInterviewsMusiciansZack Kopp·1 Comment
DIVINE HORSEMEN RIDE AGAIN: CHRIS D & JULIE CHRISTENSEN SPEAK TO PKM Eric Davidson·July 15, 2020A hot new single, ‘Mystery Writers,’ by Divine Horsemen arrives this Friday. Chris “D” Desjardins, formerly of L.A....All Please Kill Me PostsEric DavidsonInterviewsMusicians·1 Comment
SUNSHINE WALKERS: KIMBERLEY REW & LEE CAVE-BERRY Fiona McQuarrie·August 4, 2020After stints in the Soft Boys (with Robyn Hitchcock) and Katrina and the Waves, Kimberley Rew has pursued...All Please Kill Me PostsFiona McQuarrieMusicians·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
GAIL ANN DORSEY: LIFE BEFORE AND AFTER BOWIE Robert Gourley·August 20, 2020After two decades as a member of David Bowie’s band, Gail Ann Dorsey never put her bass guitar...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfCool PeopleInterviewsMusiciansRobert Gourley·0 Comments
WILLIAM GREFE’: MASTER OF GRINDHOUSE CINEMA Anthony Petkovich·October 26, 2020Florida cult-film director William Grefe’ (‘Gruh-fay’) turned low-budget filmmaking into a sort of folk art in the ‘60s...All Please Kill Me PostsFilmHistoryInterviews·0 Comments
STEVE KILBEY KEEPS GOING TO CHURCH Robert Gourley·December 10, 2020Australian band, The Church, had hoped to spend 2020 celebrating its 40th anniversary but world events interceded. Bassist...All Please Kill Me PostsInterviewsMusiciansRobert Gourley·0 Comments
DAVE ALVIN IS STILL BLASTING: ‘IF CHARLES BUKOWSKI OR RAYMOND CHANDLER HAD A BAND’ Noah Lekas·December 15, 2020In 1979, Dave and Phil Alvin formed the Blasters, a band that grew out of their love of...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleInterviewsMusicians·0 Comments
TIGHTEN UP: ARCHIE BELL TAPS INTO A TIMELESS GROOVE Scott Schinder·December 22, 2020Like a much-needed vaccine of good-time dance music during the darkest days of 1968, Archie Bell’s “Tighten Up”...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleHistoryMusiciansScott Schinder·0 Comments
MARISKA VERES: BEYOND ‘VENUS’ AND SHOCKING BLUE John Kruth·January 21, 2021One scene in the miniseries The Queen’s Gambit was all it took to put the Dutch rock band...All Please Kill Me PostsHistoryJohn KruthMusicians·2 Comments