(This article originally ran on Yahoo Music for Live Aid’s 30th anniversary, and has been updated.) They were the world. They were the rock ‘n’ roll children. Hard as it may...

There are many, many ways that pop-culture fans have discovered shapeshifting rocker/actor Michael Des Barres over the decades. Some may know him from his big-screen debut at age 17 in...

Grammy-nominated pedal steel virtuoso Robert Randolph is sitting at Studio City’s Licorice Pizza Records on June 25, and he has two reasons to celebrate today: The release of his debut...

When Linda Perry wrote 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up?” decades ago, during “the Reagan years” when the so-called Teflon President was “doing some fucked-up stuff,” she was “just sitting in...

Ringo Starr held his first annual Peace & Love Birthday Celebration back in 2008, but as he celebrated his landmark 85th birthday during possibly one of the most troubled years of...

In America, Kevin Rowland may be best known as the denim-dungaree’d street urchin crooning one of the biggest hits of the ‘80s, Dexys Midnight Runners’ “Come On Eileen,” on a...

Global pop star Arilena Ara is logged onto Zoom from her native Albania, chatting with superstar songsmith Diane Warren, the writer of her debut U.S. single, the classically Warren-esque power...

The day after Redman performed as part of the Roots Picnic Experience: Class of ’95 at the Hollywood Bowl, he visited another iconic L.A. location, the last-standing Licorice Pizza Records...

Salem Ilese was still in elementary school when she got her first big break, but she was clearly already born to be a pop star. Her supportive parents — her...

  I recently had the honor and delight of chatting with Japanese rock legend Yoshiki and the members of his new J-pop girl group, Bi-ray (Emi, Michelle, Cocomi, and Hinata) about their...