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History

Ruby Ray photographed confrontational artists like Devo, William S Burroughs, Crime, Nico, The Avengers and Z’ev at the nexus of punk & industrial subcultures for Search & Destroy magazine in late 70’s and early 80’s San Francisco. Her photos are a vivid documentation of decades past that still seem as vital and necessary today

a podcast interview with Lil Mike that details his early years on the east coast, music from his earliest band Toolin’ For Bovines and the crazy chain of events that led to his moving to San Francisco where he began performing celtic punk music with the Bedlam Rovers, the Rolling Scabs and eventually promoting numerous shows for touring indie rock acts

let’s check in with Renaldo & Clara Star Ronee Blakley in a 1978 freewheelin’ Freeform FM Radio Interview with broadcaster Patrick Carr reviewing them boozin’ Daze & Knights when she was entrenched on the road with many musical masterminds. She reveals some tidbits about the Thunder Road and making the film Renaldo and Clara with Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.

1978 interview featuring Buffy St Marie (born Beverly Jean Santamaria into an Italo-American family in Massachusetts), who has long portrayed herself as an Indian activist, seen here performing with a Native people’s mouthbow on a program with the daytime TV talk show hostess Jane Pauley