In his new memoir, Big City Cat: My Life in Folk Rock, the groundbreaking singer-songwriter Steve Forbert recounts his early days as part of the downtown NYC sc...
The Critic's Choice Documentary Awards have announced their nominations for 2016. In the category of Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary they nominated Brendan Toller's Danny Says, and Jim Jarmusch's Gimme Danger....
Music legend (and WFMU freeform pioneer) Danny Fields chats and programs music alongside filmmaker Brendan Toller, director of the documentary Danny Says. Gaylord Fields hosts....
This is PART 1 of an interview Legs did in 1994 with Steve Harris, former VP at Elektra. Steve has one of my favorite quotes in Please Kill Me: "I was a big supporter of Iggy's everywhere." In this interview, The Doors get huge. Danny Fields gets hired by Elektra. John Sinclair gets busted. Gloria Stavers gets pissed that the death of Martin Luther King takes Jim Morrison off the front pages. This is one of many interviews that are going to be pulled from the PKM archive. - Gillian...
"CBGB in 70's" on You Tube - Live shots of Blondie, The Dead Boys, and The Ramones are featured in this late 70's CBGB's documentary. Even though the commentator has a strange, infomercial voice and the speed is slightly off, the rare footage is intriguing enough to keep watching. The very articulate Ramones manager, Danny Fields describes them as "a great machine that went on time."
-Amy Haben...
On September 22, 2015 Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil hosted a screening of Brendan Toller's film Danny Says, a documentary about Danny Fields, at the Players Th...
Lias Saoudi. Photo by Amy Haben
BY AMY HABEN
Iggy Pop announced Fat White Family as "Everybodies favorite family, " recently on his BBC radio show. Ironi...
The Shit Factory ...Or How Please Kill Me Changed My Life. Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain Interview Danny Fields.
GILLIAN: Can I get a chair here?
DANNY: Where would you like it?
GILLIAN: Well, I’d like to stay close to the tape recorder, if possible.
[Danny brings a chair over to the table]
LEGS: Just knock Danny over...Jesus Christ, Gillian!
GILLIAN: Should we pause it?
LEGS: Why?
GILLIAN: Because you’ve got a little shit on your mouth. Just like you have shit on your shoes.
LEGS: I don’t have shit on my shoes.
GILLIAN: You always have shit on your shoes....
