Roky Erickson back again

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
Roky Erickson’s last LA landing shook all the sense out of my head: rock’s greatest lost voice riding out renewed reverberations like he never had to be found in the first place. There he was with his classics, pinned to the stage in a Hawaiian shirt and khakis, singing [...]

Beam me up, Billy Bragg

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
Billy Bragg was at first a baby punker in a band whose best song was about girls, and he was so lost after that he signed up for the British Army, officially opting out during training because he kept thinking of songs he could write. Elvis Costello was [...]