Interview

As a new film about her legendary all-girl L.A. punk band, The Runaways, hits theatres, the original queen of noise opens up about life at the center of their sexual-political rock 'n' roll revolution - and why she's sticking it to the man after all these years.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/01/10

Original rock 'n' roll princess Wanda Jackson on dating Elvis, working with Jack White, and her many nicknames.  BLOG POSTED: 02/12/10

Lowboy author John Wray discussed some of his "very weird" interests.  BLOG POSTED: 02/11/10

Findlay Brown's backstory reads like a Sun Records biopic: a former bare-knuckles boxer leads a dubious life on the streets, turns virtuous in the name of love, and writes a debut folk record on a bare-bones budget to win back his foreign-born sweetheart–and it works.  BLOG POSTED: 01/20/10

They were New York before New York knew what to do with them. They were lovers, best friends, fellow survivors. Patti Smith & Robert Mapplethorpe both became art-world legends and ’70s icons of radical downtown bohemia. Now Smith finally opens up about their days together, living at the Chelsea Hotel, buying art supplies before food, mixing with Warhol superstars and future rock gods, and doing whatever they had to do just to stay together.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/20/10

Umit Benan shaves his beard for art/fashion, shocks his neighbors in Milan, loves dressing old men in drop-crotch pants  BLOG POSTED: 01/19/10

The story of Jay-Z’s rise from Brooklyn street hustler to the pinnacle of the music industry is one as old as America itself. But what the artist formerly known as Shawn Carter has done since he’s reached the top has been more about making history than living it down  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/14/10

Alfred Wertheimer had never heard of Elvis Presley in 1956 when he accepted a job to photograph the singer from Memphis. A new exhibition shows he got the real deal.  BLOG POSTED: 01/12/10