In January 2010, folk legend Kate McGarrigle, beloved mother of singer-songwriters Rufus and Martha Wainwright, passed away at age 63 from a rare form of cancer called sarcoma. She gave her...
Read MoreSitting in her Brooklyn hotel room ahead of that city’s production of A Drag Queen Christmas — a celebratory annual holiday revue starring some RuPaul’s Drag Race’s most celebrated queens,...
Read MoreI recently appeared in Tamra Davis’s feature-length documentary that chronicles the evolution, secrets, and surprising figures that helped create pop music’s most misunderstood group: the boy band. As seen...
Read MoreOn Nov. 23, punk legends L7 will host their Fast and Frightening Takeover, a three-stage, all-ages all-nighter at the Belasco in Downtown Los Angeles. The epic event will feature fellow...
Read MoreOne year ago, L.A.-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist released One for Jackie, a stunning concept album about grief and loss in the classic tradition of Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night, Nick...
Read MoreLicorice Pizza Records owner/music producer Kerry Brown and I recently sat down with Spectrum News 1 to discuss the revival of the Licorice Pizza brand, which includes not only a...
Read MoreAs a longtime fan of One Direction and The X Factor, I was honored, if deeply saddened, to take part in the timely new primetime special Price of Fame: The...
Read MorePost-punk auteur Matt Johnson, best known as the one-man creative driving force behind seminal college rock band The The, hasn’t exactly been idle during the past 24 years — he’s...
Read MoreI am excited and frankly flabbergasted to announce that I have received nine nominations for the 2024 Los Angeles Press Club’s National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards! My nominations span across work...
Read MoreDweezil Zappa, the second-oldest child of the late Frank Zappa, is Zooming in from his newly built Hikari Studios in Los Angeles, taking time out from his hectic schedule —...
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