DAVID BOX: THE OTHER ROCK & ROLL GENIUS FROM LUBBOCK Burt Kearns·November 7, 2018He joined the Crickets after Buddy Holly died in a plane crash, befriended Roy Orbison, toured with Dusty...All Please Kill Me PostsBurt KearnsHistoryMusicians·3 Comments
GETTING CRAZY WITH DERF SCRATCH OF FEAR Nora Novak·December 3, 2018The party never stopped for the legendary LA punk rocker, and drug companion of John Belushi. Though warned...All Please Kill Me PostsMusicians·0 Comments
MY BLOOMIN’ GROUPIE HEART AND THE STRUTS Pamela Des Barres·December 13, 2018Luke Spiller and the boys turn the clock back decades for Pamela Des Barres and their fans It’s...All Please Kill Me PostsInterviewsMusiciansPamela Des Barres·7 Comments
WHO WAS KILLING THE COUNTRY STARS? STRINGBEAN, THE GRAND OLE OPRY MURDERS AND NASHVILLE’S DAYS OF FEAR Burt Kearns·December 19, 2018Lost in the shadows of the Watergate hearings and disco fever, four grisly murders riveted and terrified Music...All Please Kill Me PostsBurt KearnsCrimeHistoryMusicians·1 Comment
JAMES “THE HOUND” MARSHALL IS BACK ON THE AIR Fran Fried·January 4, 2019Having developed a rabid following for his groundbreaking decade-long show on WFMU—often imitated but never equaled thereafter—the Hound...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleFran FriedJames Marshall·0 Comments
A BUBBLING CAULDRON: THE ELECTRO-PSYCHEDELIC SAGA OF FIFTY FOOT HOSE Jim Allen·February 6, 20191960s Bay Area pioneers Fifty Foot Hose were too far out even for the hippies (think: Jefferson Airplane...All Please Kill Me PostsMusicians·1 Comment
A TWO-DAY BASH IN DENVER FOR NEAL CASSADY’S BIRTHDAY! Zack Kopp·February 18, 2019Jello Biafra, David Amram, Heather Dalton, Nancy Weil and many others converged on Denver to honor the city’s self-proclaimed “unnatural son,”...All Please Kill Me PostsEVENTS·0 Comments
WHO WROTE EASY RIDER? Alan Bisbort·April 3, 2019On the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking film, which made a star of Jack Nicholson, rekindled the careers...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsBest OfFilm·2 Comments
Newly Released Bowie Demos Reveal a Never-Before-Heard “Space Oddity” and More Richie Unterberger·April 22, 2019A previously unreleased batch of demos from the late 1960s reveals David Bowie groping toward the sound, vision...All Please Kill Me PostsHistoryInterviewsMusiciansNewsRichie Unterberger·1 Comment
ARCHITECT OF STARDOM: IRVING MILLS AND DUKE ELLINGTON Tosh Berman·May 1, 2019His “Elvis” was Duke Ellington, but he did far more than manage the careers of the Duke, Cab...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleHistoryTosh Berman·0 Comments
Janne Robinson: This Poet Will Never be Well Behaved Benito Vila·May 6, 2019The Canadian poet and surfer has ridden a wild wave from loner iconoclast to ‘woman of distinction,’ influencing...All Please Kill Me PostsBenito VilaInterviewsPoetry·0 Comments
ROCK & ROLL: IS ‘MAKING IT’ A THING ANYMORE? Harrison Connery·May 14, 2019With Spotify, Bandcamp, iTunes, Facebook, YouTube, and personal blogs, it has never been easier to make music and...All Please Kill Me PostsInterviewsMusiciansNews·0 Comments
WARHOL, THE VELVETS, THE FUGS AND THE DOM Jan Błaszczak·June 21, 2019The Dom, a book recently published in Poland, covers the untold story of Lower East Side’s counterculture in...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksHistory·0 Comments
GARY PANTER: LIFE AFTER PUNK & PEE WEE Eric Davidson·August 19, 2019Raised in Texas, artist Gary Panter moved to L.A. in the late 1970s and made an immediate mark...All Please Kill Me PostsArtBest OfEric DavidsonNews·7 Comments