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Exciting news, everyone! Kieran, dim the lights… American Idol returns February 18, with The Voice returning February 26 and The Masked Singer on March 6. Y’all know I can’t quit...

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Celebrating 15 years of Adam Lambert By

Fifteen years ago, on Jan. 20, 2009, I wrote for the first time (admittedly somewhat fawningly/cringe-worthily) about Adam Lambert, when his Season 8 American Idol audition aired.  And not to gloat too...

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Billy Porter talks triumphant disco album, surviving the AIDS crisis and earning his age By

“I’m alive. What an accomplishment for my kind. … This is what 54 looks like, honey,” says  the Grammy/Tony/Emmy-winning Kinky Boots and Pose star, as he returns to the “mainstream music...

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Milli Vanilli’s Fabrice Morvan recalls media’s cruel suicide jokes and Rob Pilatus’s last days: ‘I tried forever to save him’ By

“When I was looking at my friend, my brother, I was like, ‘Man, he’s gone. There’s no way I can get him back,’” says the surviving member of the disgraced...

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The Totally ’80s podcast: Teen idols with Debbie Gibson! By

Join host me and my very special guest, queen of the teens Debbie Gibson, as she discusses fashion, screen idols, the potential relaunch of the Electric Youth perfume, and the ’80s...

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David Archuleta on coming out, struggling with suicidal thoughts, being ‘done’ with the church and dating men By

“I feel like I’ve had to distance myself, really, from what I first based my faith on, and just faith in general,” says the former American Idol teen star, who...

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It’s time to play the music! After 50 years, Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem release first album to prove ‘rumors of rock’s demise are greatly exaggerated.’ By

The veteran felt rockers chat with me about their long-overdue studio debut (which features originals written by Linda Perry plus covers of Beach Boys, Cyndi Lauper, KISS, Simon & Garfunkel,...

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Grandmaster Flash on shooting ‘Wild Style’ in his kitchen, how Blondie’s ‘Rapture’ changed his life and why he once ‘looked at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a place that would never accept us’ By

The hip-hop pioneer also describes how he joined The Masked Singer and shares the origin story of Blondie’s “Rapture” and his thoughts on the 2023 Grammy Awards’ salute to rap....

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Debbie Gibson on how her late manager ‘Mama Diane’ guided her: ‘The brilliant thing about my mom is I don’t have a #MeToo story’ By

The teen idol chats with me about her last-minute The Masked Singer appearance, which was a tribute to her later mother, and why it’s important for her to take chances...

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Roman rock gods Måneskin on their surprise success: ‘Giving a huge middle finger to all the things that have been said to us’ By

As winners of the over-the-top Eurovision Song Contest who hail from Italy, don’t always sing in English, and play supposedly unfashionable hard rock, Måneskin may not have seemed like obvious...

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