RICHIE HAVENS REVISITED
Brooklyn born and raised, Richie Havens (1941-2013) began hanging out in Greenwich Village in 1959, as a street...
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JORDAN: DEFYING GRAVITY AT THE DAWN OF PUNK
Working in Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s Sex shop on King’s Road in London at the dawn of...
JACK CASADY: THE BASS MAN SPEAKETH
One of the most distinctive bass players in rock history, Jack Casady came to prominence with Jefferson Airplane,...
PUSHIN’ TOO HARD: THE SEEDS DOCUMENTARY!
By: Amy Haben “I’ve never liked the idea of putting on some music before sex, but if I...
STEALING STIV BATORS
Model and singer Bebe Buell fell into Stiv’s arms in the wake of her romances with Todd Rundgren,...
Mariann Marlowe: A Living Legend in the East Village
The owner of the first punk rock boutique in New York is still making a go of it...
THE MULTI-TALENTED BEBE BUELL
Model, muse, rock & roll singer, and Liv Tyler’s Mom, Bebe Buell looks back at her times with...
AN ORIGINAL LOUNGE LIZARD & ‘STRAY MAN’: STEVE PICCOLO
The Lounge Lizards, an uncategorizable musical assemblage that formed in 1978, blazed a trail parallel to, but separate...
JUNIOR KIMBROUGH’S JUKE JOINT: KEEPING DIRTY BLUES ALIVE
During the 1990s, a legendary but crumbling juke joint in the northern Mississippi hills kept the ‘dirty blues’...
WILD JIMMY SPRUILL: SCRATCHING OUT THE HITS
James Marshall charts the epic tale of New York City’s rock’n’roll history, embodied in the story of the...
PKM’s TOP 10 LIST: Catastrophe Books
One night— many years ago— having temporarily gone off the rails, I phoned Legs McNeil to share...
RON AND RUSSELL MAEL: STILL SQUEEZING OUT SPARKS
After 50 years and 25 albums and collaborations with a who’s who of rock ‘n’ roll, pop and...
BLOOD FEAST: THE STOMACH-TURNING CINEMA OF HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS
A former English teacher and mail-order salesman from Detroit named Herschell Gordon Lewis saw an exploitable niche in...
WAYNE KRAMER TALKS DRUGS, PRISON, MUSIC, SURVIVAL
Wayne Kramer of the MC5 was sent to ‘The Narcotic Farm’ in 1975, the same federal facility—part hospital/part...