I am thrilled and actually quite shocked to announce that I have received 11 nominations for the Los Angeles Press Club’s 2025 Southern California Journalism Awards, including independent/freelance Online Journalist of the Year! Five of these nominations...

Pioneering synthpop act Blancmange are about to embark on a U.S. tour — which includes a set at Pasadena’s post-punk Cruel World festival alongside their British peers New Order, OMD,...

In 2024, singer-songwriter Andy Grammer was in the middle of doing Greater Than, a one-man show largely focused on grief and his own experience with losing his beloved mother, children’s...

Sorry, Dos Equis guy, but Kurt Deimer might be the actual most interesting man in the world. Perhaps no rocker has had such an unorthodox career as Deimer. He worked...

Music Book Club is a social community, live author events hub, newsletter/magazine, and support group founded by entertainment, tech, and food journalist Tamara Palmer. This week, I was honored to chat with Tamara about the autobiography...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by LICORICE PIZZA RECORDS (@licoricepizzarecords) During the 13th season of American Idol, a 15-year-old singer-songwriter named Briston Maroney raspily belted the Rolling Stones’...

“It’s just been a crazy and honestly kind of unexpected journey. I never thought I would be an artist. I was always just trying to be the songwriter, and I...

You could say Andy Bell is a serial monogamist. He was in a committed relationship with his late manager, Paul M. Hickey, for 25 years, and he’s been happily married...

This never-seen interview with Mike Peters, who lost his 30-year battle with blood cancer on April 29, 2025, took place on March 28, 2024, less than two months before his...

“It is obviously evident to me that a lot of the hardcore fans of my group like that super-androgynous, covered-in-glitter, outrageous Luke. But in many ways… I had grown out...