Boy Scout Magazine
We are proud to introduce Boy Scout, intimate conversations between the world’s most creative people featuring profiles with writers, artists, thumb nosers and creative thinkers who posses the spit and polish to get things done. Boy Scout burns with diverse, artistic expression and crackles with an authentic, off-center spirit, highlighting subjects who continue to break revolutionary new ground through a wellspring of popular, untraditional, gay, and concrete culture. Created by Workhouse (workhousepr.com) and Marcel Mutt as a commemorative in honor of our 20th Anniversary. For the latest, visit boyscoutmagazine.com
Episodes
January 12, 2019 • 23 mins
In 1976 Kate Pierson founded the famed Athens, Georgia band The B-52s along with her pals Fred Schneider, Cindy Wilson, Ricky Wilson and Keith Strickland. It was the era of punk and new wave, but the B-52s were almost a whole new genre unto themselves. The B-52 changed everything with their fantastic fusion of Surrealism, lurid sci-fi, kitsch-spitting Americana realism and forbidden dance party music. Kate’s part in the B’s was mu...
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January 9, 2019 • 25 mins
Jenn Hampton’s groundbreaking work as GM of the original Asbury Lanes, which was created during the height of ruin, served as an indispensable stalwart in the history of Asbury Park. During her tenure, she created a cult of cool clubhouse that perfectly captured the potently raw meeting of music and art. In the eleven years at Asbury Lanes, Jenn helped to create a national and international fan base of performers, bands and burlesq...
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January 7, 2019 • 44 mins
It is almost impossible to capture the remarkable life and career of Bebe Buell. Discovered by super agent Eileen Ford who relocated Bebe from her hometown of Virginia Beach, Virginia, to New York City where her passion, charisma and stellar looks propelled her into the limelight of Manhattan's music scene. After meeting musical genius Todd Rundgren, the two moved in together and began a steady relationship. When Bebe posed for Pla...
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January 6, 2019 • 15 mins
Adam Nelson began his career with an actor’s grant for gifted and talented children after an appearance on the Jerry Lewis annual Telethon. He was associated with some of New York’s most notable groups including Naked Angels, Cucaracha, Manhattan Class Company, Circle Rep, Arden Party and the Adobe Theater Company. In 1997, he was granted exclusive rights by the Lenny Bruce Estate, Bruce's mother Sally Marr, and producer Marvin Wor...
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January 5, 2019 • 12 mins
Penny Arcade, aka Susana Ventura, is an international cultural icon, revered as a performer, poet, writer, and actress who speaks truth to power. Innovative, charismatic and magnetic, she has brought experimental theatre to mainstream audiences and influenced generations of artists around the world. She occupies a rare position in the American avant-garde, though her long association with the architects of the counter culture from ...
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January 4, 2019 • 13 mins
"Stranger Things" star Matthew Modine has worked with many of the film industry’s most respected directors, including, Oliver Stone, Sir Alan Parker, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Alan J. Pakula, John Schlesinger, Tony Richardson, Robert Falls, Sir Peter Hall, Abel Ferrara, Spike Lee, Tom DiCillo, Mike Figgis, Jonathan Demme, and John Sayles. He’s been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and is the recipient of one for Robert...
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January 3, 2019 • 13 mins
Larger than life, clad in an arsenal of gowns, Lady Rizo explores the joy, pathos, mystery and tenderness of a modern day diva. Unabashedly interpreting popular songs from all genres, in several languages and also sharing her own songs. "An anarchist streak still runs through me,” says Lady Rizo, the singer-sophisticate who was once a teenage punk rocker. “I love the idea of claiming something that’s uncool and making it authentic....
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January 2, 2019 • 11 mins
As one of the leading figures of the No Wave Cinema Movement (1976-1985) which developed out the New York East Village music and art community, Amos Poe is considered one of the world's first punk filmmakers. Contemporaries of the time included Jim Jarmusch, Eric Mitchell, Beth B and Scott B, Vivienne Dick, John Lurie, Becky Johnston, James Nares and Nick Zedd who embraced the artistic sensibilities of the avant-garde, French New W...
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January 1, 2019 • 28 mins
Legs McNeil is one of the three original founders of the seminal Punk magazine that gave the punk movement its name. At the age of 19, McNeil gathered with two high school friends and decided to create "some sort of media thing" for a living. The name "Punk" was decided upon because "it seemed to sum up...everything...obnoxious, smart but not pretentious, absurd, ironic, and things that appealed to the darker side”. A contemporary ...
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December 31, 2018 • 22 mins
John Holmstrom is best known for illustrating the covers of The Ramones albums Rocket to Russia and Road to Ruin, as well as his characters Bosko and Joe published in Scholastic's Bananas magazine. As the founding editor of Punk Magazine in 1975 at the age of 22, Holmstrom's work became the visual representation of the punk era. Punk magazine announced an exploding youth movement, a new direction in American counterculture. It was ...
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December 30, 2018 • 19 mins
Jimmy Webb is the Pope of punk pride. For years, he was the reigning Mayor of St. Marks Place. A self-described "runaway boy," Webb arrived in New York in 1975, penniless. Last year, he opened his very own rock'n'roll boutique aptly named “I Need More” on the Lower East Side at 75A Orchard St. between Broome and Grand. Boy Scout talked to Webb about his best friend Iggy Pop, desperation, bravery, and Barry White
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December 29, 2018 • 27 mins
Jonny Podell was once the hottest agent in rock, a lunatic legend as large as Keith Moon with a taste of drugs to rival Keith Richards. Among the numerous Hall of Fame artists Podell represented includes the Allman Brothers Band, Alice Cooper, George Harrison, John Lennon, Blondie, Lou Reed, Rod Stewart, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant. He collaborated with long-time friend Bill Graham to put together the historic 1974 trek by Crosby,...
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December 28, 2018 • 19 mins
With the publication of her acclaimed short story collection Slaves of New York, Tama Janowitz was crowned the "Lit Girl of New York." Celebrated in rarified literary and social circles, she was hailed, alongside Mark Lindquist, Bret Easton Ellis, and Jay McInerney, as one of the original “Brat Pack” writers—a wave of young minimalist authors whose wry, urbane sensibility captured the zeitgeist of the time, propelling them to the f...
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December 27, 2018 • 20 mins
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious 5 ruled the airways with their use of turntablism, break-beat deejaying, and choreographed stage routines. Formed in New York’s South Bronx in 1978, their 1982 single, "The Message," is often cited as one of the best rap songs of all time, and was the first hip-hop song to be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The Furious 5 would go on to achieve smash singles including "White Lines”, "Step Off...
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