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Rock heroine Kelsy Karter comes roaring back after bizarre, ‘traumatic’ legal ordeal: ‘I don’t have it in me to give up’ By

 (Editor’s note: This interview was conducted before the devastating January 2025 fires in Los Angeles, the city Karter currently calls home.) On Jan. 31, rock ‘n’ roll heroine Kelsy Karter and...

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Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on ‘Punk’s Not Dead,’ the power of a ‘good scream,’ and the new wave of authoritarianism: ‘I’m almost forcing myself to think hopefully about the future’ By

“Unfortunately, for me, I’ve learned that maybe in my lifetime I’m not going to see the results of the work that I’m doing,” sighs Nadya Tolokonnikova, creator of Russian feminist...

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The lost interview: David Lynch talks TM, Trump, and escaping the ‘suffocating rubber clown suit of negativity’ By

This full conversation, in both audio and written form, has never been published until now. I had the immense honor of interviewing David Lynch in October 2018 for Yahoo Entertainment. We mostly talked...

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Giddy up! After a galloping start, country supergroup the Midnight Cowgirls are feeling ‘mighty unstoppable’ By

One year ago, Eagles of Death Metal bassist Jennie Vee had a vision — literally. A fashionista whose grandfather was a Croatian tailor and whose mother was an “amazing sewer,”...

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Happy ‘Spandau Ballet vs. Duran Duran on Pop Quiz Day,’ to all who celebrate! By

Happy holidays and New Year, everyone. There’s something you should know. To cut a long story short, 40 years ago, a true Christmas miracle took place. And you can witness it, in its...

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Jackie Fuchs is a winner at the game of life: How the former Runaway-turned-board game creator rewrote the rules By

(Trigger warning: This article includes a conversation about sexual assault.) In 1977, Jacqueline Fuchs, the artist formerly known — or probably forever best known — as Runaways bassist Jackie Fox, quit her...

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‘Weird sibling energy’: Nothing’s better than the Faux Real thing By

It’s almost impossible to describe the post-post-post-ironic electro-glam duo of Faux Real — aka shirtless, shag-haircutted, high-kicking, high-camp, Franco-American himbos Virgile and Elliott Arndt, rock’s quirkiest brothers since the Maels...

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‘The Voice’ winner Sofronio Vasquez opens up about his ‘very tragic,’ ‘saddest and weirdest story’ : ‘I am able to bring a little justice for the family’ By

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,...

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Redd Kross’s guide to L.A. story for FLOOD magazine By

  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...

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Vicki Lawrence on how she had a No. 1 hit with future ex-husband’s ‘The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia’ before their split: ‘I got a gold record, and I got the dog’ By

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...

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