Global pop star Arilena Ara is logged onto Zoom from her native Albania, chatting with superstar songsmith Diane Warren, the writer of her debut U.S. single, the classically Warren-esque power...

The day after Redman performed as part of the Roots Picnic Experience: Class of ’95 at the Hollywood Bowl, he visited another iconic L.A. location, the last-standing Licorice Pizza Records...

Salem Ilese was still in elementary school when she got her first big break, but she was clearly already born to be a pop star. Her supportive parents — her...

I am proud, honored, and downright shocked to announce that I won a total of four awards (two for first place, one for second place, and one for third) at the Los Angeles Press Club’s 2025 Southern California Journalism Awards!...

  I recently had the honor and delight of chatting with Japanese rock legend Yoshiki and the members of his new J-pop girl group, Bi-ray (Emi, Michelle, Cocomi, and Hinata) about their...

The Church founder Steve Kilbey is keeping it real, sitting in the middle of Australia’s Perth Airport before boarding a flight and chatting with me via Zoom on his phone....

“If people are scared enough by the performance to want to actually leave, then we’re doing a good thing.” So declares Jack Xander, the 23-year-old shapeshifting L.A. artist formerly and...

Within the first 30 seconds of this interview, legendary Motels frontwoman Martha Davis casually drops a reference to Steve Martin’s The Jerk, which is a sure sign that this will...

Back in the indie-sleaze aughts, Manchester duo the Ting Tings splashed onto the neon scene with the edgy electropop cheerleader chant “That’s Not My Name.” Seventeen years later, they’re reflecting...

“Wait a fucking minute,” Shirley Manson snarls on “Chinese Fire Horse,” the most fiery and fuming track on Garbage’s eighth electrogoth opus, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light....