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David Archuleta on controversial coming-out song ‘Hell Together’: ‘If this is causing a bit of a stir, so be it … if It saves someone’s life’ By

(Photo : Shaun Vandella) David Archuleta, then and now. When David Archuleta became an overnight American Idol sensation at age 17, he also became a default “ambassador,” like it or...

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Why RuPaul believes ‘Drag Race All Stars’ winner Jimbo is proof that ‘punk’s not dead’ By

(Photo : Roy Rochlin/Getty Images) Winner Jimbo attends a ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ screening in New York City. When fan favorite Jimbo first competed on the inaugural season of...

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Chris Daughtry returns with new song about daughter and mother’s deaths: ‘I kind of stopped existing for a minute and just shut down’ By

(Photo : Darren Craig) Daughtry, whose family experienced two devastating losses during one week in 2021, says performing “Pieces” live sometimes feels like “a fist around my throat.” In November...

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Macklemore looks back on historic Grammy night, backlash 10 years later: ‘I didn’t know how to handle it at the time’ By

Ten years ago, at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards on Jan. 26, 2014, Macklemore made history when he, his musical partner Ryan Lewis, “She Keeps Me Warm” singer-songwriter Mary Lambert, and...

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Celebrating 15 years of Adam Lambert By

Fifteen years ago, on Jan. 20, 2009, I wrote for the first time (admittedly somewhat fawningly/cringe-worthily) about Adam Lambert, when his Season 8 American Idol audition aired.  And not to gloat too...

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Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan recalls meeting his ‘lighthouse’ Susan Holmes McKagan 27 years ago: ‘I didn’t know if I could date a woman again’ By

The rocker opens up to me about sobriety, panic attacks, his new album and how he and his wife still “dig each other in every specific way you could imagine.”...

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Billy Porter talks triumphant disco album, surviving the AIDS crisis and earning his age By

“I’m alive. What an accomplishment for my kind. … This is what 54 looks like, honey,” says  the Grammy/Tony/Emmy-winning Kinky Boots and Pose star, as he returns to the “mainstream music...

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Wynonna Judd opens up about moving forward after mother’s death: ‘I’m peacefully optimistic most of the time. And then when I’m not, I’m in hell.’ By

As she releases a Judds tribute album while looking ahead to new music, the candid and complex country music survivor tells me she’s on her way “to absolutely being on...

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Milli Vanilli’s Fabrice Morvan recalls media’s cruel suicide jokes and Rob Pilatus’s last days: ‘I tried forever to save him’ By

“When I was looking at my friend, my brother, I was like, ‘Man, he’s gone. There’s no way I can get him back,’” says the surviving member of the disgraced...

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How ‘The Lost Boys’ sexy saxophonist Tim Cappello ended up in that ‘greased-up, hip-popping, jumping-around, ultra sort of balls-out’ concert scene By

One of the most memorable, if infamous and incongruous, moments in Joel Schumacher’s 1987 vampire classic The Lost Boys is that crazy concert scene, when a hulking, shirtless, and most...

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