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The creator of the first all-female openly queer rock band talks about her memoir and why the music scene wasn’t ready for her

Why Neutral Milk Hotel’s biggest fans are often those who understand it least.

No discussion of Cleveland's punk scene would be complete without a chapter on Peter Laughner, who helped start half a dozen bands, including Rocket from the Tombs and Pere Ubu. And yet, Laughner, who died at age 24, has not received that chapter, really, until now. A new 5-disc box set retrospective by Smog Veil Records has been released, an event that sent PKM's Todd McGovern in search of the Peter Laughner chapter, using the voices of many who knew Peter well, including Cheetah Chr...

Lil Nas X, Olivia Rodrigo, and Taylor Swift all made the cut.

Much of the label's material will remain available online.

Author Adele Bertei will be in Cleveland this month to discuss her books on Laughner as well as LaBelle

At the beginning of March 2020, when known cases of COVID were still confined to a handful of states, Mountain Goats leader John Darnielle was doubling down. Tripling down, actually.

The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail. Peter wrote for Creem, a gig hed scored not only with his writing chops but also through his friendship with the reigning bard of rock and roll journalism, Lester Bangs. To the air between us he offered up a pretty guitar with reverence, as if it were a holy artifact. A guitar with a rosewood neck, like Tom Verlaines, he said proudly. Verlaine was the lead singer and guitarist in the band Television. I hadnt yet heard their music, which set Peter ...

/ Writer and author Adele Bertei revisits the ghosts of Cleveland’s 1970s punk scene in her book “Peter and the Wolves,” which focuses on her time spent with the mythologized Peter Laughner. Writer and author Adele Bertei revisits the ghosts of Cleveland’s 1970s punk scene in her book “Peter and the Wolves,” which focuses on her time spent with the mythologized Peter Laughner. Laughner was a founding member of the influential “avant-garage” band Pere Ubu and performed with memb...