At one point during Houston pop-rock band Waterparks’ hilarious interview at Studio City’s Licorice Pizza Records — right before they autograph their new album, JINX, for a ‘round-the-block line of...

In 1985, Wham! became the first Western pop act to play Communist China, and British New Wave filmmaker Lindsay Anderson came along to capture George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s historic...

British-born, American-raised rock cat Barns Courtney has lived at least nine lives, but it’s on his new concert album Live and Wired, recorded in Paris, that he truly comes into...

Devo — aptly described by cofounder Gerald Casale in their recent Grammy-nominated Netflix documentary as “most misunderstood band in the world” — were always political, with their own unique form...

If there’s ever a sure sign that a band has “made it” in show business, it’s getting parodied by the Mighty Boosh. That’s exactly what happened to Ladytron during the...

Ringo Starr has lived in America for more than 50 of his 86 years, and he has held his annual Peace & Love Birthday Celebration in various U.S. locales, including...

It is always a pleasure to speak with one of my favorite people, the one-and-only Mr. Adam Lambert. But I was especially excited this time to interview him for my first Pollstar...

I am honored to have won in five categories at the Los Angeles Press Club‘s 2026 Southern California Journalism Awards, including second place for Entertainment Journalist of the Year (recognizing...

Six years ago, smack in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, teen siblings Matt and Issey Cartlidge began busking in London — doing Kinks and Libertines covers “out of necessity,”...

Two years ago, Daniel Valoff recorded his deeply personal survivor’s anthem, “There’s Still a Light in the Sky,” for the first time in his home studio. Today, he’s revisiting that emotional track...