Thirty-five years ago, Athens eccentrics the B-52s experienced one of the greatest, if most bittersweet, against-all-odds comebacks in pop music history. After the 1985 death of guitarist Ricky Wilson, they’d...
Read MoreIt was in April 1978 that underage future Bangles Vicki and Debbi Peterson ventured from the San Fernando Valley to Redondo Beach’s now-defunct Sweetwater Café to see the Cowsills (the...
Read MoreFor FLOOD‘s April 2025 digital cover story, I had the delight and honor of chatting with Lucy Dacus about her brilliant new album, Forever Is a Feeling (her first...
Read More“I’ll never escape the memes that have been created. There’s this meme of me at 15, of me crying when I got voted off Idol, that still haunts me,” jokes...
Read More“I never thought that my house would burn down. And I really never thought that my whole town would burn down,” says Los Angeles native and longtime Altadena resident Brandon...
Read MoreIn the weeks since the wildfires that swept Los Angeles in January, perhaps no local artist has become the face and voice of this tragedy more than Dawes. Singer/guitarist Taylor...
Read MoreIn early January, former Sugarcult guitarist and self-described pack-rat Marko DeSantis filmed a Cameo video giving a mini-tour of his collection of his rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia, a collection so...
Read MoreOn Thursday, March 6, at 5pm PT/ 8pm ET, Musicians for Fire Relief, a livestream fundraiser benefiting members of the Los Angeles music community affected by this year’s devastating wildfires, took place. If you...
Read MoreI recently had the honor of chatting with Måneskin frontman Damiano David about his upcoming debut solo album and why he took the big risk of making a pop record....
Read MoreBy the mid-‘80s, Scottish post-punk band Simple Minds had already released six albums, one of which had even gone to No. 1 in the U.K., but Stateside success still eluded...
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