Published On August 29, 2017 »
Media
This year, the VMAs were a much more socially conscious and serious affair.
Substack
Facebook Fans
Recent Posts
- Once upon a time: 40 years later, Simple Minds look back at ‘Breakfast Club’ breakthrough, Live Aid, and their new gold American dream
- Margaret Cho talks new album ‘Lucky Gift,’ the need for LGBTQ+ and female voices, and why she’s proud to be a ‘queer elder’
- Diane Warren on ‘sweet 16′ Oscar hopes, biopic plans, and why she’s ‘still hungry’ for her next hit
- Rufus Wainwright recalls ‘decadent,’ ‘heady’ adventures with late friend Marianne Faithfull: ‘It was dark in a way, but it was also a hell of a lot of fun’
- Howard Jones talks the great Grammy Synthesizer Showdown of ’85, accidentally inventing the keytar, and why things only keep getting better for his career
- Sean Ono Lennon on his ‘Mind Games’ box Grammy nomination and stewarding his family’s legacy: ‘It feels like I’m doing the right thing’
- Rob Halford talks sobriety, health scares, the ‘remarkable’ Glenn Tipton, and Judas Priest’s Grammy nomination: ‘We treasure every opportunity and every moment of recognition’
- How Gary Kemp reached ‘This Destination’: Spandau Ballet star talks solo album, anxiety, aging, grief, band reunion hopes, the woman who inspired ‘True,’ playing ‘Soul Train,’ and ‘creating the ‘80s’
- Rock heroine Kelsy Karter comes roaring back after bizarre, ‘traumatic’ legal ordeal: ‘I don’t have it in me to give up’
- Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on ‘Punk’s Not Dead,’ the power of a ‘good scream,’ and the new wave of authoritarianism: ‘I’m almost forcing myself to think hopefully about the future’
