CAN’T FIND MY WAY HOME: OUR DRUG APOCALYPSE
Punk’s holy trinity, if it has one, would be sex, drugs and rock & roll. For the past...
Drugs
Drugs
NOT THE SAME AFTER THAT: ROCK & ROLL ACID CASUALTIES
Please Kill Me profiles 5 “crazy diamonds” – brilliant musicians whose careers were derailed after becoming acid casualties...
THE STOOGES – PART 1: THE THREE CHORD TRAIN TO HELL
Some folks find their religion in church, me I found mine in the 99 cent record bin of...
WILLIAM BURROUGHS TARGET PRACTICE
by Legs McNeil – Photos by Jim Tynan For a few years, back in the late 1980’s when...
GREGG ALLMAN, FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND, HAS DIED AT 69
Gregg Allman, who co-founded the Allman Brothers Band with his older brother Duane, died on Saturday at his...
DENIS JOHNSON, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF ‘JESUS’ SON’ AND ‘TREE OF SMOKE’ HAS DIED
Denis Johnson, the writer most well-known for Jesus’ Son, died on May 24, 2017 at age 67 Great...
NATALIE STOOGELING: THE FAN, THE LEGEND, THE PKM INTERVIEW
By Danny Fields
(Interviewers note: Natalie and I met when I was working at Elektra Records in the late 1960’s. I’d just persuaded my reluctant bosses to sign Iggy and the Stooges, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to a recording contract by presenting them as part of a “package deal.” The aim of Elektra was really to get the MC5, who were EXPLODING in the Midwest, signed to the label. The MC5 were sort of the Stooges “Big Brother” band, we all claimed.
ALAN VEGA, SUICIDE’S MAIN MAN
An Oral History of Punk By Alan Vega as told to Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain. - Quite simply, Alan Vega revolutionized rock & roll. Along with his long-time collaborator, Marty Rev, their two-piece combo, Suicide was a band about thirty years ahead of their time.
THE FUNNIEST, GROSSEST AND MOST LURID STORIES FROM ‘PLEASE KILL ME!’ (NME)
PKM 20th in the NME!! - -
"Please Kill Me, the oral history of punk written by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, was published 20 years ago this year. It's credited as the book that popularised the oral history format, but, more than that, it's an essential read for anyone with even the slightest interest in the movement. "
TOP TEN WEIRDEST VIDEOS FEATURING DEE DEE RAMONE!
I just visited Dee Dee Ramone’s...
QUOTES BY FORMER STONES MANAGER ANDREW LOOG OLDHAM!
Mick Jagger with Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham (left), London, 1964. (Photo by Terry O’Neill/Getty Images) Notorious...
ANGELA BOWIE: THE PKM INTERVIEW – PART 1
This is Part One of the original interview that Legs did with Angela Bowie for Please Kill Me....
The Stooges – Part II
We Will Fall: The Death and Rise of The Stooges Death, its the greatest career move of them...