In any other year, either A-ha’s “Take on Me” or Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” would have no doubt dominated the MTV Video Music Awards. But 1986 was no typical year....

RuPaul Charles’s days in Wee Wee Pole, the band he fronted when he was a fixture on Atlanta’s early-’80s queer new wave/punk scene, are long gone. And lamentably, he tells...

Electropop artist MNDR, aka Amanda Warner, is lounging backstage at San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival, dressed in her casual-Friday post-show uniform of cargo pants and bomber jacket; her glittery smudges of...

On Season 14 of American Idol, irreverent rocker chick, Jersey girl, and third-place finalist Jax stood out for her wild-child antics — performing “My Generation” draped in a Union Jack flag;...

Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, and the Last Shadow Puppets may have been the large-font bands on Outside Lands‘ 2016 lineup poster, but the Bay Area music festival’s promoters really buried the lead...

  Allison Wolfe and Alice Bag (photo: Allison Wolfe’s Soundcloud)   Alice Bag and Allison Wolfe come from different decades and scenes, but it’s understandable that in many ways they...

Unless you’ve been living on some particularly sunny remote real estate lately, you know that the emo revival is a hot topic (heh) as of late. Emo-adjacent pop/punk groups like...

Third Eye Blind made national headlines this week when the group trolled Republicans during a Musicians on Call charity concert in Cleveland, where the Republican National Convention had been taking place.Frontman Stephan...

This article originally appeared in the August 2016 issue of ELLE. Read it in its entirety here. “I don’t know what propelled me,” says founding Garbage front woman Shirley Manson of...

Allison Iraheta has worked with the best in business – from her superstar mentors on Season 8 of American Idol, to legendary Tonight Show/Idol band leader Rickey Minor, to Duran...