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Indie auteur Jack Xander talks bonkers concept album ‘Casino Heist’: ‘I want people gambling away their money and their pensions while my music plays’ By

“If people are scared enough by the performance to want to actually leave, then we’re doing a good thing.” So declares Jack Xander, the 23-year-old shapeshifting L.A. artist formerly and...

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She walked the loneliest mile. The Motels’ Martha Davis opens up about fame, loss, motherhood regrets, and finally being comfortable in her own skin: ‘I just wish that somehow I hadn’t been such an idiot.’ By

Within the first 30 seconds of this interview, legendary Motels frontwoman Martha Davis casually drops a reference to Steve Martin’s The Jerk, which is a sure sign that this will...

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How the Ting Tings reclaimed and reinvented their name on surprising soft-rock album ‘Home’: ‘We want to get old writing songs like this’ By

Back in the indie-sleaze aughts, Manchester duo the Ting Tings splashed onto the neon scene with the edgy electropop cheerleader chant “That’s Not My Name.” Seventeen years later, they’re reflecting...

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Garbage’s Shirley Manson talks injury, aging, and ageism: ‘If some f***ing journalist or some fan in the street thinks I’m old and over, I don’t give a f***ing f***’ By

“Wait a fucking minute,” Shirley Manson snarls on “Chinese Fire Horse,” the most fiery and fuming track on Garbage’s eighth electrogoth opus, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light....

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Queer country star Brooke Eden talks line-dancing roots, raising her son right, surprise support from Brittany Aldean, and more: ‘I always want to be the bridge that puts people together, instead of setting that bridge on fire’ By

Brooke Eden is sitting backstage at the 2025 Outloud Pride festival, looking like a rhinestone cowgirl in her turquoise chaps and bedazzled 10-gallon hat. The rising queer country star has...

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DJ Lance Rock talks ‘full-circle moment’ playing Coachella with Yo Gabba Gabba!: ‘An acknowledgement of what the show had meant to people’ By

View this post on Instagram A post shared by LICORICE PIZZA RECORDS (@licoricepizzarecords) On May 30, orange-tracksuited icon DJ Lance Rock did a DJ set at Studio City’s famous Licorice...

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Yungblud cover story for Music Connection magazine By

I recently had the honor and delight of chatting with shapeshifting rock ‘n’ roll visionary Yungblud about his epic fourth album, Idols Pt. 1, a years-in-the-making passion project and the...

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Grace Potter opens up about lost, shelved album made with T Bone Burnett: ‘I never was able to tell the whole truth’ By

In 2008, singer-songwriter Grace Potter and her band at the time, the Nocturnals, were on the way to play a concert in New York’s Central Park, when Potter popped a...

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Garbage talk 30 years of being ‘literally unprogrammable’ and their ‘own unique algorithm’: ‘We are an *alternative* rock band for a reason’ By

The cover art for Garbage’s new album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light, features an octopus, and that’s not just because it’s the iconic alt-rock band’s eighth record....

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‘The Voice’ Season 27 champ Adam David talks addiction, redemption, and how he finally got clean: ‘I didn’t know how I was going to get out of that. I felt very much trapped.’ By

Six years ago, Adam David had just played Austin’s South by Southwest festival for the first time, an opportunity that should have been an exciting career breakthrough for the rising...

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