In 1981, Devo’s “Whip It” music video — a deliberately offensive and over-the-top send-up of Reagan-esque cowboy machismo, featuring singer Mark Mothersbaugh sadomasochistically whipping a stuntwoman on a rowdy dude...

“It was sort of bittersweet recording some of these songs. It brought back a lot of memories, singing these songs that I used to listen to as a young girl,”...

Superstar DJ Tracy Young is Zooming from a Kansas City Margaritaville resort, but she’s hardly wasting away in Margaritaville. In fact, her career is in currently in full swing. Five...

When Peter Clarke, aka legendary Siouxsie and the Banshees/Creatures percussionist Budgie, has done recent in-store events promoting his gripping new autobiography, The Absence – Memoirs of a Banshee Drummer, he...

“I didn’t really feel like this song was going to be big until we were preparing to be on The Jenny Jones Show,” Baha Men singer Rik Carey tells Gold...

Slimdan, aka indie-pop singer-songwriter Danny Silberstein, is sitting at Studio City’s Licorice Pizza Records, not far from the Wienerschnitzel on the corner of Magnolia Blvd. and Laurel Canyon where he...

When David Archuleta became an overnight teen heartthrob in 2008 via American Idol and his No. 2 pop single “Crush,” he was extremely uncomfortable with all the attention from his...

  For FLOOD magazine, I had the pleasure of chatting with former Regrettes frontwoman Lydia Night about her fantastic debut solo album, Parody of Pleasure. She was very open, discussing...

When Ruby Friedman formed her Ruby Friedman Orchestra in 2009, the UCLA-educated history major had a grand vision for the project. “I was taking Intellectual History and tripping out. I...

When indie-rock band Mother Mother started in British Columbia, no one — especially lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist Ryan Guldemond – could have imagine where they’d be 20 years later....