Sweet Dreams, a new oral history by British journalist Dylan Jones, charts the musical about-face in the UK immediately after punk had run its course through th...
Mick Houghton came of age as a pop music ‘obsessive’ in the 1960s. By the 1970s, he was a pop music industry insider. His previous books—biographies of Sandy De...
The Manchester quartet navigated the post-punk waters on their own, self-releasing an EP and then giving the world what is now considered a classic album, Unkno...
The bass player and biographer of the beloved post-punk band talks about his affinity for the Beats, friendships with William S. Burroughs, John Giorno and Jim...
PKM talks to British artist, designer, and Punk historian Toby Mott about the early days of punk in London, his book, Oh So Pretty: Punk in Print 1976-80, featu...
Scientists founder Kim Salmon on their first US Tour!
Formed in 1978 and slow-burning their way out of Perth, Australia, and through the 1980s underground, the...
Bauhaus drummer Kevin Haskins’ new book celebrates the career of his post-punk band, which influenced the likes of Björk, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, and...
Brix Smith Start Talks to PKM About Her Time Playing in the Fall, As a Fashion Maven, Her New Band Brix & The Extricated and Her Memoir
“I have a granny ta...
BY: AMY HABEN
Art Gray Noizz Quintet: (L-R) Ryan "Skeleton Boy," Johnny Scuotto, Stu Spasm, Rich Hutchins, and Andrea Sicco. Photo: Julie Hair
This isn't St...
Listening to One Prayer One Sin erupts symbiotic visual reels of 70's city's streets and Travis Bickle wearing a bloody smile. Watching singer Johnny Scuotto flail his arms around hysterically while taunting the audience with a devilish grin pronounced by bare brows as he shouts and jerks around- can only properly be described as a "psychopathic Ian Curtis" dance. OPOS is a dynamic combination of the Birthday Party, the Pop Group, Brian Eno, and a distinct influence from Iggy Pop's albums of 1977, The Idiot and Lust For Life....
BY GREGG FOREMAN (A.K.A RX "THE PHARMACIST")
The Bag I'm In and A Scene In Between explore the subcultures of the U.K. underground music and fashion...
