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Official account for PKM: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk https://xitter.cf/t.co/3TOiSecqWZ Rock & roll music, art, fashion, poetry

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WE NEVER LEARN: GUNK PUNK IN THE 1990S pleasekillme.com/we-never-le… #EricDavidson #WeNeverLearn #NewBombTurks @NewBombTurks #90s #1990s #punkrock #90spunk #2000s #thedonnas #alanbisbort #pkm #thisiswhatscool

WE NEVER LEARN: GUNK PUNK IN THE 1990S

Eric Davidson, front man of the Ohio-based New Bomb Turks, is equally adept at rocking, rolling and writing. During the 1990s, the Turks were rolling, too, through the clubs of the Midwest, South,...

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Photographer Marcia Resnick, Filmmaker Alex Cox, Novelist Raymond Chandler, Walt Whitman in NYC - The Latest from Please Kill Me! - mailchi.mp/pleasekillme/whit…
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RAYMOND CHANDLER: THE PRIVATE EYE AS L.A. POET pleasekillme.com/raymond-cha… #RaymondChandler #losangeles #PhilipMarlowe #crimenovel #filmnoir #ingridmariejensen #pkm #thisiswhatscool

RAYMOND CHANDLER: THE PRIVATE EYE AS L.A. POET

Los Angeles may have found her Virgil in an Anglo-Irish-American detective novelist named Raymond Chandler (1888-1959). The character Chandler led through L.A.’s underworld in 7 now-classic novels...

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BELIEVE IT: MARCIA RESNICK’S LENS ON NYC pleasekillme.com/marcia-resn… #marciaresnick @marcia_resnick #photographer #nyc #downtownnyc #1970s #1980s #johnbelushi #asitisorcouldbe #sandrahaleschulman #pkm #thisiswhatscool

BELIEVE IT: MARCIA RESNICK’S LENS ON NYC

Photographer Marcia Resnick was fully embedded in the Downtown NYC scenes of the 1970s and 1980s. Her “Resnick’s Believe It” feature in the Soho Weekly News (1979-82) was essential viewing, as she...

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Hasil Adkins, Barbra Streisand, Girl Group-Punk Connection, Pianist Ervin Nyiregyhazi - The Latest from Please Kill Me! - mailchi.mp/pleasekillme/barb…
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WHY BARBRA STREISAND MATTERS pleasekillme.com/barbra-stre… #BarbraStreisand @BarbraStreisand #TomSantopietro @tomsantopietro

WHY BARBRA STREISAND MATTERS

As she nears her 80th birthday (April 24), Barbra Streisand remains a singular figure in American entertainment. By the age of 28, this brassy Brooklyn girl had already done the unthinkable, winning...

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Jack Kerouac at 100: Alene Lee & Her Influence, A Look At Dr. Sax, A Magical Jukebox, On The Verge of Fame - The Latest from Please Kill Me! - mailchi.mp/pleasekillme/kero…
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KEROUAC: ON THE VERGE OF FAME pleasekillme.com/kerouac-ver… #kerouac #jackkerouac #ontheroad #beatgeneration #tangier #pkm #thisiswhatscool

KEROUAC: ON THE VERGE OF FAME

After hand-delivering the final manuscript of On the Road to Viking Press in Jan. 1957, Jack Kerouac spent two drunken weeks in NYC before hopping a freighter to Tangier, to visit and type manuscri...

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JACK KEROUAC AT 100: HIS MAGICAL JUKEBOX pleasekillme.com/jack-keroua… #jackkerouac #kerouac #beatgeneration #poet #writer

JACK KEROUAC AT 100: HIS MAGICAL JUKEBOX

Music was the food that fueled Jack Kerouac’s soul, drove his writing and brought him his rare moments of solace. What would a mix tape by Jack Kerouac consist of? By combing his letters, journals

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Gus Van Sant on Burroughs and Kerouac, Richie Havens, Townes Van Zandt, Mike Pride - Don't Miss The Latest from Please Kill Me! - mailchi.mp/pleasekillme/van-…
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TOWNES VAN ZANDT: FOR THE SAKE OF THE SONG pleasekillme.com/townes-van-… #townesvanzandt #singersongwriter #folkmusic #americana #legend #panchoandlefty #singer #tecumsehvalley #forthesakeofthesong #alanbisbort #johnkruth #pkm #thisiswhatscool

TOWNES VAN ZANDT: FOR THE SAKE OF THE SONG

Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997) was a singer-songwriter whose work was popularized by Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Merle Haggard and Lyle Lovett, among many others. Some of his tunes (“Pancho and...

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Lightnin’ Hopkins, Brian Stanley, Barry Reynolds, The Drongos - Don't Miss The Latest from Please Kill Me! - mailchi.mp/pleasekillme/hopk…
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IN THE KEY OF LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS: THE MAN & HIS MUSIC pleasekillme.com/lightnin-ho…

IN THE KEY OF LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS: THE MAN & HIS MUSIC

Texas bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins (1912-1982) played, sang and lived by his own rules. When a sideman once asked him what key they were playing in, he proclaimed, “the key of Lightnin’ Hopkins!” A...

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KINK FOR A DAY & OTHER ROCK ‘N’ ROLL ADVENTURES OF BRIAN STANLEY pleasekillme.com/brian-stanl…

KINK FOR A DAY & OTHER ROCK ‘N’ ROLL ADVENTURES OF BRIAN STANLEY

Brian Stanley with Bill Wyman backstage after opening for the Stones with Garland Jeffreys at Hartford Civic...1981. Photo courtesy of Michael Halsband

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‘THE SINGER’S LABORER’: BARRY REYNOLDS ON WORKING WITH MARIANNE FAITHFULL, GRACE JONES & OTHERS pleasekillme.com/barry-reyno… #barryreynolds #pacificdrift #blodwynpig #mickabrahams #mariannefaithfull #gracejones #valeriesimadis #pkm #thisiswhatscool

‘THE SINGER’S LABORER’: BARRY REYNOLDS ON WORKING WITH MARIANNE FAITHFULL, GRACE JONES & OTHERS

Songwriter and musician Barry Reynolds has lived an itinerant life. By age 15, in the mid-1960s, he’d left his Lancashire home and was gigging in Hamburg, then with the London bands Pacific Drift and...

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Photographer Lee Miller, Miami Pin-Up Queen Bunny Yaeger, Artist Greg Irons, Music Streaming Services - Don't Miss The Latest from Please Kill Me! - mailchi.mp/pleasekillme/mill…
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LEE MILLER: THE PHOTOGRAPHER OUT ON A LIMB #leemiller  #blackandwhitephotography #photographer #1930s  #1940s #artist #surrealistartist #photography #WW2 #fashion @ingrid_again #pkm #thisiswhatscool pleasekillme.com/lee-miller-…

LEE MILLER: THE PHOTOGRAPHER OUT ON A LIMB

Lee Miller (1907-1977), from Poughkeepsie, led a full and adventurous life. Conde Nast sought her out as a model, Picasso painted her portrait, Jean Cocteau filmed her, Man Ray was enticed into...

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Ornette Coleman, Kenneth Fearing, Fania Records, Mark Edwards of My Dad Is Dead - Don't Miss The Latest from Please Kill Me! - mailchi.mp/pleasekillme/cole…
THE SKY DON’T HAVE NO ROOF: THE LAST ORNETTE COLEMAN INTERVIEW pleasekillme.com/ornette-col… #ornettecoleman #jazz #saxophonist #jazzlegend #jazzsaxophonist #musician #composer #johnkruth #pkm #thisiswhatscool

THE SKY DON’T HAVE NO ROOF: THE LAST ORNETTE COLEMAN INTERVIEW

Ornette Coleman (1930-2015), undoubtedly a great musician and composer who freed jazz from nearly all constrictions, was also a homespun philosopher. In the times he spent talking and playing with...

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KENNETH FEARING: NYC’S ORIGINAL ‘DRUNKEN POET’ pleasekillme.com/kenneth-fea… #kennethfearing #drunkenpoet #greenwichvillage #aliceneel #poet #poetry #thebigclock #pkm #thisiswhatscool

KENNETH FEARING: NYC’S ORIGINAL ‘DRUNKEN POET’

Kenneth Fearing, “the drunken poet,” was a rising star among the Greenwich Village bohos in the 1920s, his forlorn presence a model for ‘starving artists’ for three different novelists and as subject...

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