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Music, Music Feature Sep 25, 2019
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Piecing together the story of midwest punk’s great lost talent

Before he died at 24, Peter Laughner cofounded Rocket From the Tombs and Pere Ubu. Had he lived, he could’ve rivaled Patti Smith or Richard Hell—and a new box set shows why.
- By Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: Music Feature, Peter Laughner, box set, Smog Veil, Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu, The Day the Earth Met the Rocket From the Tombs, Dead Boys, Stiv Bators, Cheetah Chrome, Ain’t It Fun, Take the Guitar Player for a Ride, Terry Hartman, Cleveland, punk, Charlotte Pressler, Creem, Zeppelin, Lester Bangs, Adele Bertei, Television, Peter Laughner Is Dead, Nick Blakey, Andrew Russ, Nocturnal Digressions: 1977, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Cinderella Backstreet, Baudelaire, Amphetamine, Wilco, Video

Music, In Rotation Feb 23, 2015
Ono cofounder P. Michael on soul singer Billy Stewart

Plus: Lamont "Bim" Thomas of Obnox on Cleveland’s rock riches, the Reader's Luca Cimarusti on a bizarre record from the star of Teen Mom, and more
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: In Rotation, Turnstile, Nonstop Feelings, That Awful Sound, Aiden, Farrah Abraham, My Teenage Dream Ended, Backdoor Teen Mom, P. Michael, Ono, Billy Stewart, I Do Love You, Michel Legrand, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, Public Enemy, La Lupe, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Obnox, Miles Davis, Lamont "Bim" Thomas, Obnox, This Moment in Black History, the Bassholes, Funkadelic, Numero Group, Cleveland, Pagans, Dead Boys, Pere Ubu, La Cave, Rocket from the Tombs

Blogs, Bleader Dec 1, 2011
This week on the B Side

A talk with Jane Birkin, multidisc sets of vintage African and black gospel music, a sound-art installation at the MCA, a makeover for Pancho's, and more
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Jane Birkin, Janet Bean, Serge Gainsbourg, Eleventh Dream Day, ICE, Barrett Deems, Opika Pende, This May Be My Last Time Singing, gospel, African music, Andrew Bird, Parasol Records, Pancho's, Chicago, Kyuss Lives!, Greg Kelley, Rocket from the Tombs, Avey Tare

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