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Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner talks ‘Materalists’ song, ‘Crying in H Mart’ movie status, her next book, and discovering her late mother’s journal By

Earlier this year, Michelle Zauner had come off the exhausting 2021 whirlwind of promoting her indie-pop band Japanese Breakfast’s Grammy-nominated breakthrough album Jubilee and her acclaimed memoir Crying in H...

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Shaun Cassidy talks being a nepo baby, being held at gunpoint by Phil Spector, Keith Moon crashing on his couch, writing a horror movie about cats, and returning to music after four decades By

In 1980, 22-year-old Shaun Cassidy was seemingly on top of the teen-idol heap. He’d just played a massive concert at Houston’s 55,000-seat Astrodome stadium and released what should have been...

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The lost interview: Ace Frehley talks ‘Phantom of the Park,’ ‘Music From the Elder,’ 1978 solo album, and why he would’ve rejoined KISS ‘for the right price’ By

In 2018, I had the immense thrill of interviewing original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley for Yahoo. We talked at length about his sixth solo album, Spaceman, as well as the 40th...

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Whoopee! Bob Eubanks talks mortgaging his house for the Beatles, touring with the Stones, managing Dolly Parton, meeting Richard Nixon, and, yes… THAT notorious ‘Newlywed Game’ question By

  You may know Bob Eubanks at the long-running host of The Newlywed Game or Rose Parade, but you may not know that he got his start in rock ‘n’...

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David Archuleta talks coming out, embracing his sensuality, and leaving the LDS church: ‘I thought it was worse to be gay than to experience life’ By

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...

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Pentatonix’s Mitch Grassi on his surprising, or perhaps *not*-so-surprising, electrogoth solo project Messer: “I’ve never been the clean-cut, ‘normal’ member of the band.” By

Most people know Mitch Grassi from Pentatonix, who won NBC’s talent show The Sing-Off in 2011, parlayed that opportunity into YouTube stardom, and eventually won three Grammys and made history...

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An oral history of Live Aid: The ones who made a brighter day, 40 years ago By

(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...

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Michael Des Barres on the Power Station’s invitation to play Live Aid: ‘It was like saying Rudolf Nureyev wanted to dance with me’ By

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...

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Why Diane Warren wanted to work with Albanian pop star Arilena Ara: ‘Holy s***, this girl can f***ing sing! This is just Celine-level.’ By

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...

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This is where all the magic happens: Redman talks ‘Muddy Waters Too,’ his ‘journey with self-healing,’ and the greatest ‘Cribs’ episode of all time By

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...

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