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Rufus Wainwright talks Folk Cancer: The Kate McGarrigle Project, mother’s final performance: ‘All of the atoms in her body just rallied’ By

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...

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Nina West talks A Drag Queen Christmas tour and the importance of hope in the new year: ‘I know that I’m not giving up’ By

Sitting 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,...

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Lyndsey Parker in Paramount+ documentary ‘Larger Than Life: Reign of the Boy Bands’ By

  I 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...

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L7’s Donita Sparks talks Fast and Frightening Takeover, Rock for Choice’s legacy, and being ‘scary broads’: ‘Men were terrified. … Some dudes were just not ready for L7’ By

On 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...

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How making ‘One for Jackie,’ learning a shocking family secret helped Rett Madison heal after mother’s suicide: ‘It just shifted the way I viewed my mom as a person’ By

One 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...

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Lyndsey Parker & Kerry Brown on Spectrum’s Licorice Pizza Records report By

Licorice 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...

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Lyndsey Parker on ABC’s 20/20 special ‘The Price of Fame: The Liam Payne Story’ By

As 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...

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Matt Johnson talks near-death experience, politics, AI, sex robots, love, loss, and The The’s triumphant return: ‘Life is very fragile and short, and you’ve got to make the most of it’ By

Post-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...

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Lyndsey Parker snags nine National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award nominations By

I 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...

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Dweezil Zappa talks new studio and his “rock ‘n’ roll Nostradamus” father’s prescient politics: “He always said, ‘The last name is what will get you in trouble.’” By

Dweezil 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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