Letters from Chicago – Volume I: Fit to Burst
It’s Superfest 2012 and the Congress Theater down the block hosts heavy beats and youthful entropy. I spent the night…
Category: Original Lit
Linda, Before Paul McCartney
I first met Linda McCartney at the Scene on West 46th Street. A hip little grotto in a cellar, it…
Interview: Pete Seeger – When Will They Ever Learn?
“Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.”—Pete Seeger Before the Byrds or…
No Contest: The Ali-Warhol Tapes
Victor Bockris: On the other hand, you always said you just like to have people who talk a lot when…
Ringo Starr: Fifty Years Later and the Birth of the Beatles
“You’re the greatest drummer in the world. Really.”—Paul McCartney, the day after the band’s infamous rooftop concert at Apple Studios…
Listen When You Leave: Nico’s Chelsea Girl
In 1966, Nico recorded with The Velvet Underground. They recorded The Velvet Underground and Nico. The band’s first album.…
The Forecastle Music Festival in Twenty-First Century Spontaneous Prose
The definition of a (or rather, the) Forecastle, as given by the festival’s website, goes as such: "Fore·cas·tle (f’ok_sol) n.…
Interview: Budd Carr on Savages and Having the Best Job in the World
Budd Carr has one of the more easily envied job that I have ever heard of; he picks out the…
Album Review: Egg Cracked, The Bird Went Wild
My muddled childhood impression of Willie revolves around his distinctive long hair and dress: cowboy boots and flannel shirt, which…
Two Poems by George Bilgere
We said last year in our review of George Bilgere's poetry that, "It’s the self-appraisal and introspection that not everyone…