WHEN COMIX MET PUNK: ROBERT CRUMB’S “WEIRDO” Alan Bisbort·April 30, 2019Comics historian Jon B. Cooke has whipped up a Please Kill Me-like oral history of underground comix of...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsBooks·1 Comment
SON OF A GUN: NEAL CASSADY’S SON JOHN TELLS ALL Laura Marie Braun·May 2, 2019John Allen Cassady, now 67, reflects on growing up with the king of the counterculture, the inspiration for...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfCool PeopleHistoryInterviewsNews·0 Comments
AL GOLDSTEIN: THE RISE AND FALL OF A NEW YORK JEW Larry Ratso Sloman·June 4, 2019Al Goldstein co-founded Screw in 1968, calling his magazine “the Consumer Reports of sex” and then spent half...All Please Kill Me PostsHistoryLarry “Ratso” SlomanR.I.P.·9 Comments
TORN BETWEEN TWO LOVERS: KEITH MOON & WAYLON JENNINGS Pamela Des Barres·July 11, 2019Could any two musicians appear to be more different than the solidly grounded country music “outlaw” Waylon Jennings...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfPamela Des Barres·2 Comments
THE BALLAD OF CATHY WAYNE: KILLED ON STAGE IN THE VIETNAM WAR Burt Kearns·July 30, 2019The teenage pop star from Australia ignored the warnings and embarked on a tour of military bases in...All Please Kill Me PostsBurt KearnsHistory·4 Comments
STAG: THE EARLIEST, DIRTIEST ROOTS OF PORNOGRAPHIC FILM Erika Blair·September 11, 2019Illegally made and exhibited, featuring hardcore sex images and acts, stag films were vital stepping stones toward the...All Please Kill Me PostsArtErika BlairFilmInterviews·3 Comments
OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD: CHUCK WEIN Pamela Des Barres·September 12, 2019Chuck Wein, after graduating Harvard, made his name as a promoter and filmmaker with Andy Warhol. By the...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleHistoryPamela Des Barres·3 Comments
ENTERING FREAK CITY: HANGING OUT WITH HARRY CREWS Gary Lippman·October 21, 2019The hardnosed, hard-living Southern writer once dubbed himself ‘Freak City’ and, despite a lifestyle (booze, drugs, fistfights, etc.)...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksGary Lippman·1 Comment
BJ PAPAS: FROM NY HARDCORE TO LA PUNK – SHE’S SHOT THEM ALL Sharon M. Hannon·November 6, 2019Photographer BJ Papas started out shooting the New York hardcore scene—bands like Agnostic Front, the Bad Brains and...All Please Kill Me PostsArtBest OfCool PeopleInterviewsPhotographySharon M. Hannon·0 Comments
ROGER C. REALE & RUE MORGUE: PUNK-POP PIONEERS BACK FROM THE DEAD Jim Allen·November 18, 2019Forty years ago, punk/power-pop disciple Roger C. Reale enlisted the aid of guitar wizards G.E. Smith, Jimmy McAllister...All Please Kill Me PostsInterviewsMusicians·0 Comments
LOOKING BACK AT 1973…AND THE ROOTS OF PUNK Andrew Grant Jackson·December 2, 2019On Tuesday, Thomas Dunne Books, a St. Martin’s imprint, releases 1973: Rock at the Crossroads, a deep 347-page...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksHistory·2 Comments
PETER AARON OF THE CHROME CRANKS CELEBRATES CINCINNATI’S ‘UNDERGROUND SOUNDS’ Eric Davidson·December 4, 2019Peter Aaron moved to Cincinnati (aka ‘the Queen City,’ ‘Cinci-tucky’) from New Jersey as a teenager and quickly...All Please Kill Me PostsEric DavidsonInterviewsMusicians·2 Comments
DIANE NOOMIN: UNDERGROUND COMIX ARTIST GOES FROM TWISTED SISTER TO EMPOWERING WOMEN Alan Bisbort·January 14, 2020As co-editor (with Aline Kominsky-Crumb) of the all-female Twisted Sisters Comics in the 1970s and 1980s, Diane Noomin...Alan BisbortAll Please Kill Me PostsArtBooks·0 Comments
CHIP TAYLOR: THE HAPPY GAMBLER Michael Shelley·March 26, 2020Chip Taylor followed an unorthodox path to late-career musical success. Though born and raised in tony Westchester County,...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleHistoryInterviewsMichael Shelley·1 Comment