ONSTAGE, BACKSTAGE: PHOTOGRAPHER MICHAEL GRECCO CAPTURED BOSTON’S PUNK AND POST PUNK SCENES
Michael Grecco picked the right time to be in Boston. As an undergrad at BU studying photojournalism, he...
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STEVE KILBEY KEEPS GOING TO CHURCH
Australian band, The Church, had hoped to spend 2020 celebrating its 40th anniversary but world events interceded. Bassist...
BEFORE AND BEYOND GOTH: THE DARK SIDE OF ROCK & ROLL
This Halloween, let your playlist reflect the fact that rock & roll has always been permeated with occult...
‘LIKE PUNK NEVER HAPPENED’: THE LEGACY OF THE NEW ROMANTICS AND ‘80S U.K. POP
Sweet Dreams, a new oral history by British journalist Dylan Jones, charts the musical about-face in the UK...
FRIED & JUSTIFIED: INSIDE THE POST-PUNK YEARS (1978-98) WITH MICK HOUGHTON
Mick Houghton came of age as a pop music ‘obsessive’ in the 1960s. By the 1970s, he was...
UNKNOWN PLEASURES: JOY DIVISION’S MASTERPIECE AT 40
The Manchester quartet navigated the post-punk waters on their own, self-releasing an EP and then giving the world...
DAVID J.: GOING FAR BEYOND BAUHAUS
The bass player and biographer of the beloved post-punk band [Who Killed Mister Moonlight: Bauhaus, Black Magick, and...
OH SO PRETTY: TOBY MOTT’S PUNK ARTIFACTS
PKM talks to British artist, designer, and Punk historian Toby Mott about the early days of punk in London,...
PETER MURPHY: 40 YEARS OF BAUHAUS REVISITED
Peter Murphy has reunited with David J., to perform their dark fusion of glam, cabaret, rock and reggae on the career-spanning Ruby Anniversary tour....
LEGENDARY AUSTRALIAN BAND, “SCIENTISTS” REVEAL THEIR SECRET FORMULA!
Scientists founder Kim Salmon on their first US Tour! Formed in 1978 and slow-burning their way out of...
BAUHAUS BETWEEN THE COVERS
Bauhaus drummer Kevin Haskins’ new book celebrates the career of his post-punk band, which influenced the likes of Björk,...
THE ASCENSION OF POST-PUNK GUITARIST BRIX SMITH START
Brix Smith Start Talks to PKM About Her Time Playing in the Fall, As a Fashion Maven, Her...
ART GRAY NOIZZ QUINTET IS HERE TO STEAL YOUR SOUL!
BY: AMY HABEN Art Gray Noizz Quintet: (L-R) Ryan “Skeleton Boy,” Johnny Scuotto, Stu Spasm, Rich Hutchins, and...
ONE PRAYER ONE SIN RESURRECTS OLD GHOSTS!
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.