STEALING STIV BATORS Bebe Buell·April 25, 2019Model and singer Bebe Buell fell into Stiv’s arms in the wake of her romances with Todd Rundgren,...All Please Kill Me PostsBebe BuellBest OfHistoryMusicians·1 Comment
FROM ROLLING THUNDER TO STUBBORN HEART: LARRY “RATSO” SLOMAN TELLS ALL Todd McGovern·May 8, 2019The resume of Larry “Ratso” Sloman is epic: editor of National Lampoon, collaborator with John Cale and Lou...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleInterviewsMusiciansNewsTodd McGovern·0 Comments
SHE SHOT ANDY WARHOLS: THE DIRTY LIFE & CRIMES OF DOROTHY PODBER Burt Kearns·May 20, 2019She called it ‘performance art’ when, in 1964, she casually strolled into Andy Warhol’s Factory, pulled out a...All Please Kill Me PostsBurt KearnsHistory·2 Comments
Q: WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT NOISE? A: XTC! Amanda Sheppard·May 22, 2019Mark Fisher explores the unique appeal of XTC’s musical legacy in What Do You Call That Noise?: An...All Please Kill Me PostsAmanda SheppardInterviewsMusicians·0 Comments
PETER LAUGHNER: AN UNFINISHED LIFE Todd McGovern·May 23, 2019Cleveland’s vital and unsung punk scene would not be complete without a chapter on Peter Laughner. Laughner, who...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfCool PeopleHistoryInterviewsMusiciansNarrative Oral HistoryNewsTodd McGovern·5 Comments
MU TUNC: THE DIRECTOR OF TURKEY’S FIRST PUNK MOVIE. OR, THE FALL OF EASTERN CIVILIZATION Burt Kearns·June 5, 2019Filmmaker Mu Tunc describes his film, Arada, as “Liquid Sky meets The Decline of Western Civilization,” which, of...All Please Kill Me PostsBurt KearnsFilmHistoryInterviewsNews·1 Comment
EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: ROCK & ROLL WAS INVENTED IN WILDWOOD, NEW JERSEY! – BY DEKE DICKERSON Deke Dickerson·June 12, 2019Deke Dickerson charts the birth of Rock & Roll music—as we know it—to the early 1950s, and a...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfDeke DickersonHistory·11 Comments
PRIDE TV: THE QUIET GAY HEROES OF SIXTIES SITCOMS Burt Kearns·June 28, 2019The faces of these three actors were familiar to Baby Boomers raised on TV situation comedies. Their private...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfBurt KearnsCool PeopleHistoryTV·3 Comments
‘WHERE’S THE BAG, MR. KARDASHIAN?’: OR, HOW I EXPOSED O.J. SIMPSON’S ACCOMPLICE AND SET THE STAGE FOR A TV EMPIRE Burt Kearns·July 3, 2019Four weeks after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, a tabloid news producer made a...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfBurt KearnsCrimeHistoryTV·0 Comments
ANDY WARHOL AND THE BEATS IN DENVER: A CONVERSATION WITH MARK SINK Zack Kopp·July 29, 2019Denver photographer, street artist and gallery owner Mark Sink talks about the Andy Warhol he knew, the one...All Please Kill Me PostsArtHistoryInterviewsNewsPhotography·2 Comments
MANCHESTER’S UNITED: BUZZCOCKS’ STEVE DIGGLE SPEAKS HIS MIND Amy Haben·August 1, 2019The brainy and witty Buzzcocks guitarist Steve Diggle opens up about the origins of punk in Manchester, the...All Please Kill Me PostsAmy HabenInterviewsMusiciansNews·2 Comments
HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN: J.G. BALLARD IN THE 1970s Jeremy Reed·August 6, 2019The novelist J.G. Ballard created language so unique that, according to renowned poet and novelist Jeremy Reed, he...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksHistory·1 Comment
FRAME OF MIND: 20 YEARS OF THE DC MUSIC SCENE Sharon M. Hannon·August 8, 2019When Antonia Tricarico moved from her native Italy to Washington D.C. in 1997, she felt a kinship with...All Please Kill Me PostsHistoryMusiciansNewsPhotographySharon M. Hannon·1 Comment
JERRY LEWIS, J.D. SALINGER & THE JEWISH HOLDEN CAULFIELD Burt Kearns·August 12, 2019There were once two men named Jerry: Salinger and Lewis. And one of them wrote a famous novel,...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksBurt KearnsFilmHistory·0 Comments