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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...
Brooke Eden is sitting backstage at the 2025 Outloud Pride festival, looking like a rhinestone cowgirl in her turquoise chaps and bedazzled 10-gallon hat. The rising queer country star has...
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by LICORICE PIZZA RECORDS (@licoricepizzarecords) On May 30, orange-tracksuited icon DJ Lance Rock did a DJ set at Studio City’s famous Licorice...
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I recently had the honor and delight of chatting with shapeshifting rock ‘n’ roll visionary Yungblud about his epic fourth album, Idols Pt. 1, a years-in-the-making passion project and the...
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In 2008, singer-songwriter Grace Potter and her band at the time, the Nocturnals, were on the way to play a concert in New York’s Central Park, when Potter popped a...
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The cover art for Garbage’s new album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light, features an octopus, and that’s not just because it’s the iconic alt-rock band’s eighth record....
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Six years ago, Adam David had just played Austin’s South by Southwest festival for the first time, an opportunity that should have been an exciting career breakthrough for the rising...
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In the mid-‘60s, a suburban British mother named Joan Nancy Haskins, with a port-and-brandy cocktail in one hand and a Consulate menthol cigarette in the other, would watch her 7-year-old son...
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Twenty years ago, Michael Trotter Jr., a U.S. Army veteran and one-half of married Americana duo the War and Treaty, nearly competed on American Idol. “I tell this story all...
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When 18-year-old country crooner John Foster took a risk and performed an original song on American Idol Season 23’s “Songs of Faith” Easter episode, it was a turning point for...
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It seems wrong to call Jamal Roberts’s victory on the American Idol Season 23 finale a “surprise,” since he is without question one of the greatest male vocalists to ever...
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