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Elton John Recalls Surprising Iggy Pop Onstage — in a Gorilla Costume
As Sir Elton John, one of the most fabulously attired performers in rock ‘n’ roll history, prepares for his farewell tour, everyone is wondering what he’s going to wear....
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Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova: ‘Things Are Not That Different for Our 2 Countries’
“Things are not that different, surprisingly, for our countries,” muses Nadya Tolokonnikova, leader of notorious Russian feminist punk/art collective Pussy Riot. “It’s not the easiest time right now, and...
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Brian May Talks Politics: ‘We’re Not Heading in the Direction of Compassion’
Sitting with Yahoo and poring over his glossy new coffee table book, Queen in 3-D, guitar god and stereoscopic photography enthusiast Brian May pauses on page 88, gazing at...
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RuPaul Talks Punk, Politics, and Pulse: ‘Most People Are Still Living in the Dark Ages’
RuPaul Charles’s days in Wee Wee Pole, the band he fronted when he was a fixture on Atlanta’s early-’80s queer new wave/punk scene, are long gone. And lamentably, he...
ORDER HERE “There were definitely better known personalities than Mercy Fontenot in her time, but she was no less of a thrilling iconoclast for it. Long before unorthodox...
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As part of the Grammy Museum’s Programs at Home, it was my immense honor to be joined by rock legend Alice Cooper, Arrow de Wilde of Starcrawler, original GTO Pamela Des Barres,...
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Esteemed rock journalist Jim Farber wrote a lovely, in-depth feature for The Guardian about the posthumously published autobiography I wrote with/for the GTOs’ Mercy “Miss Mercy” Fontenot, Permanent Damage: Memoirs...
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Bib Ruggiero interviewed me for a lovely, in-depth feature for Houston Press about the posthumously published autobiography I wrote with/for the GTOs’ Mercy “Miss Mercy” Fontenot, Permanent Damage: Memoirs of...
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American Idol Season 19 has come to an end, and my co-host, The Voice Season 9 finalist Jeffery Austin, and I are celebrating this great season with our own “The Day After” very...
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The Voice Season 20 and American Idol Season 19 are soon coming to an end; in less than a week’s time, either Cam Anthony, Kenzie Wheeler, Rachel Mac, Jordan Matthew Young,...
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Man… my “The Day After” cohost Jeffery Austin and I go away for two weeks, and all hell breaks loose. The Voice actually gets good in its last two weeks...
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The Time. Sheila E. Carmen Electra. Sheena Easton? Vanity 6. Appolonia 6! Kim Basinger?! What do these names all have in common? They were all Prince protégés in the ’80s....
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The singer-songwriter, now age 40, is a thousand miles, emotionally and artistically, from where she was when she wrote her piano pop song “A Thousand Miles” as a teenage ballet student. And while...
Read MoreOnce again, there’s a ton to discuss this week. We had the RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13 finale and disappointing “reunion” show, an even more disappointing (and unnecessary) “Comeback” show featuring a...
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