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SisQó interview for Music Times By

I had a great chat with SisQó about his “moment” with a #thong-flaunting Halle Berry, career advice from Michael Jackson and Prince, bad Y2K fashion, the perils of sampling, owning...

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Mayte Garcia interview for Music Times By

I recently spoke with Mayte Garcia, Prince’s first wife, about her #LIVE4MUSIC charity work, finding new love with Danish jazz musician Niels Lan Doky, coming to peace with loss and...

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The Alarm interview for Music Times By

I had a fun chat for Music Times with Mike Peters of post-punk band the Alarm the new covers album Music Television and how, 20 years ago, the Alarm pulled...

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David Archuleta interview for Music Times By

I recently had a frank and meaningful conversation with American Idol star David Archuleta about his powerful new song “Hell Together” and his mother’s decision to leave the Mormon church...

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Chris Daughtry interview for Music Times By

For Music Times, I spoke with American Idol rock star Chris Daughtry abohit his band Daughtry’s “Pieces,” which he wrote while processing the deaths of his mother and daughter just...

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Who should be in Rock Hall’s Class of 2024? I have thoughts! By

  The nominations for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2024 have been announced, and it’s certainly an interesting mix, spanning decades and genres, with 10 of...

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Macklemore looks back on historic Grammy night, backlash 10 years later: ‘I didn’t know how to handle it at the time’ By

Ten years ago, at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards on Jan. 26, 2014, Macklemore made history when he, his musical partner Ryan Lewis, “She Keeps Me Warm” singer-songwriter Mary Lambert, and...

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Celebrating 15 years of Adam Lambert By

Fifteen years ago, on Jan. 20, 2009, I wrote for the first time (admittedly somewhat fawningly/cringe-worthily) about Adam Lambert, when his Season 8 American Idol audition aired.  And not to gloat too...

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‘Weird Al’ Yankovic on how he helped get ‘Jeopardy!’ back on the air, what Queen made him cut from ‘Weird,’ and that one time radio banned him By

“Weird Al” Yankovic’s Emmy- and Grammy-nominated biopic spoof, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, takes more liberties with the facts that even typical tall-tale rock ‘n roll biopics like Bohemian Rhapsody or Rocketman....

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Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan recalls meeting his ‘lighthouse’ Susan Holmes McKagan 27 years ago: ‘I didn’t know if I could date a woman again’ By

The rocker opens up to me about sobriety, panic attacks, his new album and how he and his wife still “dig each other in every specific way you could imagine.”...

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