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THE MAD POETS SOCIETY Alan Bisbort·January 29, 2018The poet Ezra Pound may have been a crazy old man, but does that cancel out his fascism...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsPoetry·0 Comments
THE MC5’S WAYNE KRAMER TALKS ABOUT THE HARD STUFF Todd McGovern·September 3, 2018Fifty years after the recording of the MC5’s first album Kick Out the Jams and the riots at the...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfCool PeopleInterviewsMusiciansTodd McGovern·1 Comment
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THE ENDLESS SUMMER OF JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD, ARTIST AND PUZZLE MASTER Benito Vila·February 20, 2020John Van Hamersveld is an art-school-trained modernist with roots in the California surf culture who was set loose...All Please Kill Me PostsArtBenito VilaCool People·0 Comments
KICKING ASH: FRANK SECICH OF BLUE ASH AND DEAD BOYS, REVISITS HIS POWER POP ROOTS Eric Davidson·March 9, 2020Signed to Mercury the same time as the New York Dolls, Ohio-based Blue Ash was part of a...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleEric DavidsonInterviewsMusicians·1 Comment
THE DAWNING OF AQUARIUS: AN L.A. ARTIST REVISITS THE 1960S Amy Haben·July 28, 2020The Sixties never died, at least not on the palette of Dawn Aquarius. Steeped in the music, lore,...All Please Kill Me PostsAmy HabenArtInterviews·0 Comments
‘PUB ROCK’ WAS MORE THAN A LABEL Adam Ganderson·October 12, 2020Wilko Johnson (Dr. Feelgood) and Dave Tice (Buffalo, Count Bishops) talk to PKM and give us the scoop...All Please Kill Me PostsHistoryInterviewsMusicians·1 Comment
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POLY STYRENE REMEMBERED Amy Haben·July 15, 2019Marianne Joan Elliott-Said (1957-2011), aka Poly Styrene, was a punk pioneer in ways that are only now being...All Please Kill Me PostsAmy HabenBooksHistoryInterviewsMusiciansNews·5 Comments
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