IN RIOT DAYS, PUSSY RIOT SHOWS US THAT PUNK IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR PROTEST Mary Karmelek·November 29, 2017Maria Alyokhina’s Riot Days bears witness to the hardships endured by those who dare oppose the ruling powers,...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksMary KarmelekMusicians·1 Comment
WHAT WAS THE FIRST ROCK & ROLL RECORD? DEKE DICKERSON SAYS IT’S ‘ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK’ Deke Dickerson·June 14, 2019In Part 1, Deke Dickerson lays out his belief that the template of Rock & Roll was forged by...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfDeke DickersonHistory·8 Comments
AN ORIGINAL LOUNGE LIZARD & ‘STRAY MAN’: STEVE PICCOLO Eric Davidson·May 11, 2020The Lounge Lizards, an uncategorizable musical assemblage that formed in 1978, blazed a trail parallel to, but separate...All Please Kill Me PostsEric DavidsonInterviewsMusicians·0 Comments
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
TULI KUPFERBERG: THE RIGHT-NOW ART AND WORDS OF A FUG Benito Vila·October 19, 2020By the time Tuli Kupferberg formed the Fugs with Ed Sanders in 1964, he was already a longtime...All Please Kill Me PostsBenito VilaHistoryInterviews·3 Comments
IT DON’T BOTHER ME: THE LEGACY OF BERT JANSCH Alan Bisbort·March 3, 2021From his earliest days in the folk clubs of Edinburgh—where he learned from greats like Davey Graham, Martin...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsHistoryInterviewsMusicians·0 Comments
RON AND RUSSELL MAEL: STILL SQUEEZING OUT SPARKS Tosh Berman·March 8, 2021After 50 years and 25 albums and collaborations with a who’s who of rock ‘n’ roll, pop and...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleHistoryMusiciansTosh Berman·1 Comment
RELIEF AND RELEASE: REVISITING WENDY O. WILLIAMS & THE PLASMATICS Adam Ganderson·May 6, 2021The Plasmatics, fronted by the unmatchable Wendy O. Williams, may have been the most misunderstood rock ‘n’ roll...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfFashionGirl PowerHistoryMusicians·4 Comments
“TROUBLE BOYS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE REPLACEMENTS” Todd McGovern·April 5, 2016Bob Mehr, author of the new biography, “Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements,” was only 11 years old at the time, but the ‘Mats [the band’s nickname, short for Placemats] performance that night left quite an impression on his young mind.All Please Kill Me PostsInterviewsTodd McGovern·0 Comments
BORN TO BE BLUE: THE RISE AND FALL OF CHET BAKER Valerie Simadis·January 16, 2018A late career surge, aided by Elvis Costello and Bruce Weber’s 1989 documentary film Let’s Get Lost, put...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleMusiciansValerie Simadis·1 Comment
THE ROAD FROM THE CATACOMBS TO ASTRAL WEEKS: VAN MORRISON’S LOST 1968 TAPE UNEARTHED Richie Unterberger·January 3, 2019A recently discovered tape, briefly released by Morrison on iTunes, may be a rock & roll Rosetta stone,...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfHistoryInterviewsMusiciansRichie Unterberger·3 Comments
THE COCKETTES: CONJURING MAGICK IN SAN FRANCISCO AND TAKING IT ON THE ROAD TO NYC Fayette Hauser·April 20, 2020The Cockettes were a “hippie theater group” formed in 1969 and based in and around Haight-Ashbury. The group...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksHistoryInterviews·1 Comment
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
ALLAN SHERMAN: WEIRD AL’S FOUNDING ‘FADDAH’ Scott Schinder·April 14, 2021Allan Sherman, a pudgy TV game show producer, dominated the pre-Beatles record charts with a string of hit...All Please Kill Me PostsComedyCool PeopleHistoryScott SchinderTV·1 Comment