UNEXPECTEDLY GREAT COVERS OF FAMILIAR SONGS
When is a cover song better than the original? Is it flattery or just a cheap rip-off? Please...
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AMERICAN FRANKENSTEIN – SAN QUENTIN’S SURGEON & HIS HUMAN EXPERIMENTS
Dr. Stanley, chief surgeon at San Quentin Prison for almost 40 years and a follower of eugenics, conducted...
BORN TO BE BLUE: THE RISE AND FALL OF CHET BAKER
A late career surge, aided by Elvis Costello and Bruce Weber’s 1989 documentary film Let’s Get Lost, put...
DUNCAN HANNAH LOOKS BACK AT THE 1970s
The celebrated painter Duncan Hannah talks about his experiences during the punk rock era in New York and...
THE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL’S STEVE BOONE OPENS UP ABOUT THE INFAMOUS POT BUST THAT BROKE UP THE BAND
Steve Boone, bass player for the ‘good time’ folk-rock band Lovin’ Spoonful, known for hits like “Do You...
SILK, SATIN AND VELVET: THE SECRET HISTORY OF GROUPIE CHIC BY PAMELA DES BARRES
Pamela Des Barres shares the origin story of her love of the thrift store treasure hunt, the goldmine...
GROUPIES ON VINYL
They didn’t just join the bands on stage, on tour, in the motel room; some groupies, like Cherry...
EMBRYONIC JOURNEY: INTO THE LIGHT WITH JEFFERSON AIRPLANE’S JORMA KAUKONEN
Jorma Kaukonen – founding member of Jefferson Airplane, co-founder of Hot Tuna, teacher, archivist, brilliant rock, folk and...
ALICE COOPER: POULTRY IN MOTION
The press cried “fowl” when an innocent chicken was ravaged by a Canadian festival audience driven into a...
MY BLOOMIN’ GROUPIE HEART AND THE STRUTS
Luke Spiller and the boys turn the clock back decades for Pamela Des Barres and their fans It’s...
WHO WAS KILLING THE COUNTRY STARS? STRINGBEAN, THE GRAND OLE OPRY MURDERS AND NASHVILLE’S DAYS OF FEAR
Lost in the shadows of the Watergate hearings and disco fever, four grisly murders riveted and terrified Music...
MICHAEL CHAIKEN: MAKING BOB DYLAN’S ARCHIVE COME ALIVE
The Dylan Archive curator’s road to Tulsa was paved with good obsessions, such as free jazz, Godard, the...
PETER LAUGHNER: AN UNFINISHED LIFE
Cleveland’s vital and unsung punk scene would not be complete without a chapter on Peter Laughner. Laughner, who...
BEST (AND WORST) SUPPORTING ROCKERS
Rock stars turn up in the unlikeliest of places, even on the silver screen. While some musicians have...