As Culture Club release Life, their first album in almost 20 years, it’s a miracle (no pun intended) that the groundbreaking new wave band’s famous frontman, Boy George, is still...

K-pop is bigger than ever — but so far, mainstream media attention in the U.S. has been focused on boy bands like NCT 127, Monsta X, and especially Time magazine cover-story...

Ever since his days with Rage Against the Machine, who were just nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, guitarist Tom Morello has mixed the political and the...

A quarter century ago, Billy Ray Cyrus teamed with songwriter Don Von Tress for his feel-good country smash “Achy Breaky Heart.” Now he and Von Tress have co-written a very...

Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga may be generating early Oscar buzz for A Star Is Born — but two hilarious drag queens, Shangela Laquifa Wadley (real name: D.J. Pierce) and...

Fans may have thought Steve Perry had stopped believing, but after a two-decade recording hiatus, the reclusive ex-Journey singer is finally returning with the solo album Traces, out Oct. 5. When...

When I interviewed former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley  — who died on Oct. 16, 2025, at age 74 — back in 2018 for promote his sixth solo album, Spaceman, casual...

Twenty-five years ago, Rob Zombie’s early group White Zombie, which he describes as being inspired by Van Halen, the Ramones, the Birthday Party, and Black Sabbath, had sold only about...

Twenty-five years ago, an act that Ed McMahon awkwardly called a “hip-hop rappin’” group called Girl’s Tyme competed on Star Search, and lost out to hairy rock band Skeleton Crew’s...

Six years ago on The X Factor USA Season 2, a lovable lady named Panda Ross captured America’s hearts — and seemingly the heart of her longtime crush, judge Simon...