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Often overlooked by punk history’s gatekeepers, Lisa Fancher’s venerable Frontier Records label is celebrating 40 years of important punk rock releases. Without her there to release some of the first music by the Adolescents, Circle Jerks, Angry Samoans, Black Randy, Red Kross, Suicidal Tendencies and so many more, the Los Angeles punk scene would have been far less righteous. Anthony Mostrom caught up with Lisa Fancher, still releasing new material, and reissuing the best of the old stuff, 40 years later.

A one-time prodigy from Hungary, who was composing music at age 5, wowing audiences with his percussive piano playing in his teens and being called the second coming of Mozart and Liszt, Erwin Nyiregyhazi, ended his days as a denizen of L.A’s Skid Row. It was here that PKM’s Anthony Mostrom spotted him in the late 1970s not long after he’d been “rediscovered” and his career revived. His lifestyle as a younger man would have put most punk rockers to shame—married ten times, a companion to Gloria Swanson, friends with Bela Lugosi and Harold Lloyd, an itinerant resident of flophouses....

Jack Black was a burglar, rambler, jailbird and writer whose lone published memoir, You Can’t Win (1926), was an important early influence on William S. Burroughs and, through him, the other Beat writers. With a film adaptation of the book, starring Michael Pitt, expected later this year, now is a good time to rediscover this classic road narrative. Anthony Mostrom tells the story of Jack Black through his own words and those of Burroughs.