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
THE LAVENDER SCARE: WHEN GAY WAS NOT Alan Bisbort·December 1, 2021Spreading fear is one of the hallmarks of the far right in the U.S., a way to divide...ActivismAlan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsHistory·0 Comments
ELLIOTT SHARP AT 70: STILL DOING THE DON’T John Kruth·December 15, 2021‘Musician’ seems a paltry way to describe Elliott Sharp because he is so many things—multi-instrumentalist (sax, clarinet, guitar),...All Please Kill Me PostsJohn KruthMusicians·0 Comments
DIVINE: LAUGHTER AND LUST IN THE DUST Cree McCree·December 16, 2021In 1984, Cree McCree sat down with Divine during the filming of the Lust in the Dust, directed...ActivismAll Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleCree McCree·0 Comments
KID CONGO POWERS: DREAMING ABOUT LUX & POISON IVY, JEFFREY LEE PIERCE AND SEAN DELEAR Eric Davidson·March 15, 2021The genial former member of the Gun Club, the Cramps, Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds and a collaborator with...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfCool PeopleEric DavidsonHistoryInterviewsMusicians·0 Comments
FINNISH AVANT-GARDIST KEUHKOT IS CONTINUING THE UNIVERSE Jordan Mamone·January 5, 2022Keuhkot is, as Jordan N. Mamone suggests, “the world’s only one-man avant-garde Finnish vaudeville act.” “Keuhkot” is the...ActivismAll Please Kill Me PostsArtCool PeopleMusicians·1 Comment
ANGUS MACLISE: THE PETE BEST OF THE PUNK GODFATHERS Alan Bisbort·January 24, 2022Angus MacLise (1938-1979) was, as the Velvet Underground’s original drummer, an essential element of their early free-form sound,...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleMusicians·0 Comments
TED JOANS: GOING FAR BEYOND ‘RENT-A-BEATNIK” Alan Bisbort·February 2, 2022Poet, musician, artist and avowed “surrealist” Ted Joans was, along with LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka), one of...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleMusiciansPoetry·0 Comments
THE DRONGOS: FROM THE CALM OF NEW ZEALAND TO THE STREETS OF NEW YORK Mike Cobb·February 22, 2022Stranded in the States after a tour with a New Zealand theater troupe, drummer Stan Mitchell and his...All Please Kill Me PostsMusicians·0 Comments
ALEX COX: THE RETURN OF WALKER David Stewart·March 22, 2022British filmmaker Alex Cox made his name with Sid and Nancy and cult-fave Repo Man. However, his epic...All Please Kill Me PostsDavid StewartFilmInterviews·1 Comment
ALL THE RAJ: HOW ‘NORWEGIAN WOOD’ UNLEASHED THE ‘INDIAN INVASION’ John Kruth·April 6, 2022 Once George Harrison picked up the sitar to add exotic sounds to John Lennon’s “Norwegian Wood”, the...All Please Kill Me Posts·1 Comment
RIP: Malcolm McLaren Legs McNeil·March 18, 2012 January 22, 1946 – April 8, 2010 Malcolm McLaren will be remembered as a master manipulator who inflicted Punk on the world when he detonated the explosion that was the Sex Pistols—the most famous punk rock group in the world. All Please Kill Me PostsLegs McNeil·0 Comments