
Some people might be surprised that Sammy Hagar, a dyed-in-the-wool (or, more precisely, dyed-in-the-Hawaiian-shirt) rocker dude, would have any interest in being a mentor on a pop-leaning TV talent show...
Read MoreLast Friday, actor/musician and former child star Corey Feldman and his backing band, Corey’s Angels, delivered an outlandish, Internet-breaking performance on The Today Show, playing “Go 4 It,” a track off Feldman’s fifth...
Read MoreRuPaul Charles’s days in Wee Wee Pole, the band he fronted when he was a fixture on Atlanta’s early-’80s queer new wave/punk scene, are long gone. And lamentably, he tells...
Read MoreOn Season 14 of American Idol, irreverent rocker chick, Jersey girl, and third-place finalist Jax stood out for her wild-child antics — performing “My Generation” draped in a Union Jack flag;...
Read MoreRadiohead, LCD Soundsystem, and the Last Shadow Puppets may have been the large-font bands on Outside Lands‘ 2016 lineup poster, but the Bay Area music festival’s promoters really buried the lead...
Read More“I just want [American Idol] to be remembered for being innovative, pioneering – and maybe the most successful TV show of all time. It would just be nice for people...
Read MoreThe grand opening of PEG: The Store took place June 9 in Downtown Los Angeles’s Arts District, with a live PEG Records musical showcase featuring some of your favorite RuPaul’s Drag Race stars. Season 6 top...
Read More(Ukraine’s Jamala wins the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: Reuters) Long before American Idol — before Star Search, even — there was the Eurovision Song Contest. The United Nations of...
Read MoreNo tea, no shade, no pink lemonade: Spike TV’s Lip Sync Battle is good clean fun, but no one, and I mean no one, lip-syncs like the good queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Seriously,...
Read More(photo: Reuters/Chris Pizzello) One of the most thrilling guest performances in American Idol history was when the late, great Prince showed up out of nowhere – almost as if in...
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