(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...

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...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by LICORICE PIZZA RECORDS (@licoricepizzarecords) On May 30, orange-tracksuited icon DJ Lance Rock did a DJ set at Studio City’s famous Licorice...

Six years ago, Adam David had just played Austin’s South by Southwest festival for the first time, an opportunity that should have been an exciting career breakthrough for the rising...

Twenty years ago, Michael Trotter Jr., a U.S. Army veteran and one-half of married Americana duo the War and Treaty, nearly competed on American Idol. “I tell this story all...

When 18-year-old country crooner John Foster took a risk and performed an original song on American Idol Season 23’s “Songs of Faith” Easter episode, it was a turning point for...

It seems wrong to call Jamal Roberts’s victory on the American Idol Season 23 finale a “surprise,” since he is without question one of the greatest male vocalists to ever...

New American Idol champion Jamal Roberts barely had time to brush the confetti off his sequined waistcoat before he met with Lyndsanity and other Idol reporters backstage at Sunday’s Season 23...