Paul Krassner has led a remarkable life: Lenny Bruce's collaborator, editor of The Realist , co-founder of the Yippies, stand-up agitator and investigative ...
"The truth," Lenny Bruce once noted, "is what is, not what you want it to be." Of course the pillars of upright 'n' tight society proceeded to arrest an...
The King Kasuals were a covers band playing the Chitlin Circuit in 1962. One day the singer pointed out to the guitarist that the latter had busted the speaker ...
While it clearly wasn't from one show, cuz Jagger's jump suit jumps from white to black and back between songs, Ladies & Gentlemen ... The Rolling Stones re...
It was only a couple of weeks ago that I had an epiphany, one that's no doubt so embarrassingly obvious that I'm somewhat ashamed to cop to it, but here...
A quintessential American music, Western Swing is the shotgun wedding of big-band swing and hillbilly fiddle music. The King of Western Swing was the great Bob ...
My first live sighting of Richard "Kinky" "Big Dick" Friedman was at Max's Kansas City in New York in 1973. He was headlining Upstairs at Max's with his band the Texas Jewboys and I was an 18-year-old hometown Jewish country singer who revered both Hank Williams and Lenny Bruce. Kinky......
There are only 11 authentically hip people on the planet at any random moment, and that list is fluid. There are also the few one meets per lifetime that make t...
From where I squint, Josh Alan Friedman is the finest American writer of books. (For you who travel solely on thecyberhighway, books are paper-made collections ...
Artie Shaw is one of the most captivating Americans of the 20th century, top shelf in a centenary lousy with geniuses. The poor Jewish kid from New Haven became...
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