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After ‘Idol’ and loss, Lee DeWyze releases career-defining opus ‘Gone for Days’: ‘I really had to do some soul-searching’ (BONUS PERFORMANCE) By

“Coming off of a show like American Idol, the first thing that I thought of, the minute they said my name, after I got over the shock of it, it...

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Protest singer MILCK on taking her career to such great new heights: ‘I had to figure out who I am again, or maybe for the first time’ By

  Singer-songwriter MILCK, aka Connie Lim, first came to fame in 2017 with her anthem “Quiet” — a deeply personal song, which she’d originally written with Adrianne Gonzalez about the...

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Melancholic goddess Savannah Pope talks ‘reclaiming feminine insanity’ on art-rock opus ‘Pandemonium’: ‘Everything I’ve ever felt has been gaslit to a certain degree’ By

Savannah Pope is a generational artist, a belter whose powerful pipes have been compared to Ann Wilson and Janis Joplin, but whose grand vision is singularly her own. “I just...

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Blitz Vega’s Kav Sandhu on honoring late bandmate Andy Rourke’s final wish: ‘After he passed, I knew what I had to do’ By

In 2019, bass legend Andy Rourke, best known for his seminal work in the Smiths, joined forces with Kav Sandhu (Happy Mondays, A.K.A. Weave) to release their supergroup Blitz Vega’s...

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Midge Ure exclusively reveals Band Aid 40th anniversary ‘megamix’ plans and reflects on a six-decade career as the ‘invisible man of rock’ By

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...

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Adam Lambert cover story for Music Connection magazine By

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...

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Music for the masses: How Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez became L.A.’s alt-rock ambassador By

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...

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Moon Zappa on growing up with ‘Spock and Jesus for a dad,’ how her mother ‘robbed me of the chance to grieve,’ and how penning her memoir helped her heal By

“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...

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X’s John Doe and Exene Cervenka talk final album and their ‘creative, spiritual bond that is unbroken — and won’t be broken’ By

“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...

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How Morris Day stole the show in ‘Purple Rain’ by writing the script’s nastiest, funniest line By

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....

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