Midge Ure is currently on his self-contained, two-man Band in a Box tour of America, playing selections from his vast catalog using various loops, samples, and programmed drums. One song...

I recently had the immense delight and honor of interviewing at length one of my all-time favorite singers, pop multi-hyphenate Adam Lambert, for the Film & Television fall 2024 issue of...

In the early ‘90s, a civic-minded San Fernando Valley high school student named Monica Rodriguez made the cover of the Los Angeles Times, protesting budget cuts to music programs in...

“My dream was always that we would do a family memoir,” reveals author Moon Zappa, the eldest child of late art-rock savant Frank Zappa. “I thought it’d be so interesting...

“Nostalgia: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for a return to, or of, some past period or irrecoverable condition,” recites John Doe, frontman and bassist for X — the most...

Forty years ago, on July 27, 1984, Purple Rain hit theaters and turned Prince Rogers Nelson into a movie star. But another cast member, the Time’s Morris Day, practically upstaged him....

Exactly 50 years ago – long before Beyoncé crossed over with Cowboy Carter or the breakthrough success of Black female country artists like Mickey Guyton, Brittney Spencer, Yola, Allison Russell,...

It was a ton of fun partying like it was 1987 with Dave Sloan and Holly Cantos on their “What Difference Does It Make?” podcast, as we counted songs No....

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 whole years since “Weird Al” Yankovic released Mandatory Fun. Al’s 14th full-length studio album made history at that time, becoming the very first comedy LP...

“I only seem massively creative compared to all the other lazy musicians,” Buzz Osborne modestly quips, as he discusses his prolific output in recent years. The artist also known as...