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...

The Church founder Steve Kilbey is keeping it real, sitting in the middle of Australia’s Perth Airport before boarding a flight and chatting with me via Zoom on his phone....

“If people are scared enough by the performance to want to actually leave, then we’re doing a good thing.” So declares Jack Xander, the 23-year-old shapeshifting L.A. artist formerly and...

Within the first 30 seconds of this interview, legendary Motels frontwoman Martha Davis casually drops a reference to Steve Martin’s The Jerk, which is a sure sign that this will...

Back in the indie-sleaze aughts, Manchester duo the Ting Tings splashed onto the neon scene with the edgy electropop cheerleader chant “That’s Not My Name.” Seventeen years later, they’re reflecting...

“Wait a fucking minute,” Shirley Manson snarls on “Chinese Fire Horse,” the most fiery and fuming track on Garbage’s eighth electrogoth opus, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light....

Brooke Eden is sitting backstage at the 2025 Outloud Pride festival, looking like a rhinestone cowgirl in her turquoise chaps and bedazzled 10-gallon hat. The rising queer country star has...