Veteran musical comic (or is it comical musician?) Kyle Gass is reclining on a velour ‘70s sofa at Licorice Pizza Records, getting ready for his eponymous band’s very first in-store concert,...

When a 22-year-old West Coast rapper and reformed ex-gang member named Anthony Terrell Smith — soon to be better known as Tone Lōc — stepped into a “hot-ass closet” in...

Mark Mothersbaugh is one of film and television’s most respected and in-demand composers, writing music for hit children’s fare like Rugrats and The Lego Movie and the Wes Anderson features Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life...

As Poison drummer Rikki Rockett and L.A. Guns guitarist Tracii Guns enter the Metal Hall of Fame this week (along with Chris Holmes of W.A.S.P., Warren DeMartini of Ratt, and...

In May 1980, legendary Minneapolitan music savant Peter Jesperson discovered the Replacements and went on to become their A&R rep, manager, producer, mentor, self-described “babysitter,” and the man sometimes described...

Perhaps never in the history of Licorice Pizza Records events has a band made as grand an entrance as Italodisco bon vivants the Dolcevita Brothers. To quote the jet-setting bio...

Rocker Michele Bettencourt may be the subject of the documentary Beautiful Lie, but the fact that her more-fascinating-than-fiction story hasn’t yet been adapted for a biopic — or better yet,...

Billy Idol may be known for his tougher-than-red-leather image and menacing punk-rock sneer, but when he first watched the animated end-credits of his new documentary, Billy Idol Should Be Dead,...

“Everybody that I have spoken to, the first thing that they say is: ‘Is it really 10 years?’” So says Mike Garson, speaking from his home studio in the San...

    Last year, my top 10 list was packed with pop bops and feminine energy (Kylie Minogue, the Last Dinner Party, all-night dance parties by Faux Real and the...