When Peter Clarke, aka legendary Siouxsie and the Banshees/Creatures percussionist Budgie, has done recent in-store events promoting his gripping new autobiography, The Absence – Memoirs of a Banshee Drummer, he...

“I didn’t really feel like this song was going to be big until we were preparing to be on The Jenny Jones Show,” Baha Men singer Rik Carey tells Gold...

Slimdan, aka indie-pop singer-songwriter Danny Silberstein, is sitting at Studio City’s Licorice Pizza Records, not far from the Wienerschnitzel on the corner of Magnolia Blvd. and Laurel Canyon where he...

On Tuesday, Aug. 12, as Taylor Swift teased the release of her 12th album The Life of a Showgirl and forthcoming appearance on her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s podcast “New Heights,” I joined...

When David Archuleta became an overnight teen heartthrob in 2008 via American Idol and his No. 2 pop single “Crush,” he was extremely uncomfortable with all the attention from his...

  For FLOOD magazine, I had the pleasure of chatting with former Regrettes frontwoman Lydia Night about her fantastic debut solo album, Parody of Pleasure. She was very open, discussing...

When Ruby Friedman formed her Ruby Friedman Orchestra in 2009, the UCLA-educated history major had a grand vision for the project. “I was taking Intellectual History and tripping out. I...

When indie-rock band Mother Mother started in British Columbia, no one — especially lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist Ryan Guldemond – could have imagine where they’d be 20 years later....

In December 2022, I conducted my second (and, tragically, last) interview with Ozzy Osbourne, who died at age 76 on July 22, 2025. In many ways, at least professionally, Ozzy...

Most people know Mitch Grassi from Pentatonix, who won NBC’s talent show The Sing-Off in 2011, parlayed that opportunity into YouTube stardom, and eventually won three Grammys and made history...