When Sofronio Vasquez won The Voice Season 26 this week, his reaction was one of the most genuinely touching displays in the series’ 13-year history — a stunning must-see-TV moment,...

  As an L.A. native whose first Whisky show was Redd Kross, it was immense fun to reminisce with Jeff McDonald & Steven McDonald about Los Angeles for FLOOD magazine. I...

Some fans, depending on their age, know comic legend Vicki Lawrence as the ingenue from The Carol Burnett Show, or as Mama’s Family matriarch Thelma Harper, or maybe even as...

I am proud, honored, and actually quite gobsmacked to announce that I won six awards (three for first place, and three for second place) at the 2024 Los Angeles Press Club’s...

In January 2010, folk legend Kate McGarrigle, beloved mother of singer-songwriters Rufus and Martha Wainwright, passed away at age 63 from a rare form of cancer called sarcoma. She gave her...

Sitting in her Brooklyn hotel room ahead of that city’s production of A Drag Queen Christmas — a celebratory annual holiday revue starring some RuPaul’s Drag Race’s most celebrated queens,...

  I recently appeared in Tamra Davis’s feature-length documentary that chronicles the evolution, secrets, and surprising figures that helped create pop music’s most misunderstood group: the boy band. As seen...

On Nov. 23, punk legends L7 will host their Fast and Frightening Takeover, a three-stage, all-ages all-nighter at the Belasco in Downtown Los Angeles. The epic event will feature fellow...

One year ago, L.A.-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist released One for Jackie, a stunning concept album about grief and loss in the classic tradition of Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night, Nick...

Licorice Pizza Records owner/music producer Kerry Brown and I recently sat down with Spectrum News 1 to discuss the revival of the Licorice Pizza brand, which includes not only a...