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The Alarm’s Mike Peters opens up about album he wrote in cancer ward: “I thought, ‘This is it. … I’m probably not getting out of here.’” By

The Alarm frontman, who was diagnosed with leukemia in 1995 and has beat the odds ever since, chats with me about writing his latest album while spending several scary months...

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These are the breakthroughs: Kurtis Blow & Melle Mel talk 50 years of hip-hop By

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, two architects of the genre share stories share fascinating stories about “The Message,” “The Breaks,” “White Lines,” and more....

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Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas, 51, looks back on a life in rock ‘n’ roll: ‘I’m a mess! … I’m not suited for anything else.’ By

The frontman jokes that his “therapist is trying to work on that,” but says he’s now “a much more controlled mess. … I got it out of my system, and...

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David Archuleta on coming out, struggling with suicidal thoughts, being ‘done’ with the church and dating men By

“I feel like I’ve had to distance myself, really, from what I first based my faith on, and just faith in general,” says the former American Idol teen star, who...

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It’s time to play the music! After 50 years, Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem release first album to prove ‘rumors of rock’s demise are greatly exaggerated.’ By

The veteran felt rockers chat with me about their long-overdue studio debut (which features originals written by Linda Perry plus covers of Beach Boys, Cyndi Lauper, KISS, Simon & Garfunkel,...

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Belinda Carlisle talks self-love, marital love and ‘Big Big Love’ at age 64: ‘With sobriety came the confidence that this is really what I’m meant to be doing in life’ By

The Go-Go’s star, who battled media criticism of her appearance, an eating disorder, and drug addiction for years, explains to me why she had “the confidence this time around,” while...

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Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott on dueting with Swift and Cyrus, going symphonic and surviving trends: ‘I had no issues with Kurt Cobain trying to kill the ’80s’ By

In 2008, Def Leppard. signed up to film a TV special with a then-rising country star named Taylor Swift — and they received two CMT Awards nominations. Fifteen years later,...

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May Pang on her ‘Lost Weekend’ with John Lennon that never really ended: ‘I don’t have closure’ By

May Pang details her relationship with John Lennon in this frank conversation. Pang, a then-assistant for Lennon and Yoko Ono, explains how Ono first approached her about engaging in an...

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Peter Gabriel on the future of AI: ‘We might as well just grab the algorithms and dance with them, rather than fight them’ By

Peter Gabriel joins me to explain how music can improve lives and debates the pros and cons of artificial intelligence. Reverberation: Do Everything Better With Music co-author Keith Blanchard, filmmaker...

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Grandmaster Flash on shooting ‘Wild Style’ in his kitchen, how Blondie’s ‘Rapture’ changed his life and why he once ‘looked at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a place that would never accept us’ By

The hip-hop pioneer also describes how he joined The Masked Singer and shares the origin story of Blondie’s “Rapture” and his thoughts on the 2023 Grammy Awards’ salute to rap....

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