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
THE TOP TEN MOST SHOCKING, BIZARRE, AND HISTORIC DEATHS OF ROCK & ROLL DRUMMERS ONSTAGE Burt Kearns·September 3, 2019One of the key jokes in Spinal Tap is the long line of drummers who met unfortunate ends,...All Please Kill Me PostsBurt KearnsMusiciansR.I.P.·1 Comment
GEORGE HODEL’S EXQUISITE CORPSE(S): BEYOND THE BLACK DAHLIA Zack Kopp·October 17, 2019Former LAPD detective and prolific true-crime author Steve Hodel has pursued the Black Dahlia murder for years. The...All Please Kill Me PostsCrimeHistoryInterviewsZack Kopp·1 Comment
ROBERT ALTMAN: THE SECRET HONOR OF EXILE Alan Bisbort·November 5, 2019A completely overlooked 1984 Robert Altman film, with an Oscar-caliber performance by Philip Baker Hall, is the perfect...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsFilmHistory·0 Comments
LYDIA LUNCH’S WAR IS NEVER OVER Amy Haben·November 26, 2019As part of the No Wave group Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Lydia Lunch (nee Koch) made her...All Please Kill Me PostsAmy HabenCool PeopleFilm·2 Comments
KENNETH PATCHEN: REBEL POET AND ROMANTIC Alan Bisbort·December 11, 2019Poet, artist, performer, pacifist and visionary, Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was the closest thing America had to a William...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsHistoryPoetry·2 Comments
TELSTAR: THE SONG, AND THE FUTURE THAT NEVER WAS Charles Monagan·January 15, 2020Working feverishly in his North London studio in 1962, Joe Meek created the sound of the space age...All Please Kill Me PostsCharles MonaganHistory·3 Comments