Michael Simmons

“The first Prankster rule is that nothing lasts forever,” said Merry Prankster chieftain Ken Kesey in 1966, the same year the Grateful Dead, the in-house band f...

Photo by Glen Rose "LATELY I FEEL LIKE THE LONELIEST MAN IN America," writes Steve Earle in the liner notes of his most recent album, Jerusalem (Artemis). He goes on to contrast recent events with the era of his youth — Vietnam, race riots, federal spying and prosecution of dissidents,......

Wayne Kramer is sitting in the kitchen of his West Hollywood pad, talking about lies. We’re a society suffocating from an overabundance of horseshit, he says, his impatience flashing like one of those stinging thunderbolts he rings from his guitar. Kramer‘s dissatisfaction with the status quo and his distaste for......