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Tone Lōc talks recording ‘Wild Thing’ in three takes in an ‘old, raggedy, hot-ass closet’; misunderstood lyrics; and why he didn’t release music for 32 years By

When a 22-year-old West Coast rapper and reformed ex-gang member named Anthony Terrell Smith — soon to be better known as Tone Lōc — stepped into a “hot-ass closet” in...

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Flashback: Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh on how Pee-wee Herman ‘totally changed the trajectory’ of his career By

Mark Mothersbaugh is one of film and television’s most respected and in-demand composers, writing music for hit children’s fare like Rugrats and The Lego Movie and the Wes Anderson features Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life...

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‘The Voice’ Season 28 winner Aiden Ross on why he almost quit music: ‘I never want to forget that feeling like I had lost everything’ By

To most viewers, newly crowned The Voice champion Aiden Ross might have seemed like an obvious frontrunner throughout Season 28. After all, his four-chair Blind Audition was the first to...

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100-years-young Dick Van Dyke on the keys to longevity: ‘Genes,’ ‘exercise,’ and ‘a beautiful young wife half my age to take care of me’ By

Embed from Getty Images When Tony-, Emmy-, Grammy-, and SAG Award-winning star of stage and screen Dick Van Dyke appeared as the Gnome on The Masked Singer in 2023 —...

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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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