You could say Andy Bell is a serial monogamist. He was in a committed relationship with his late manager, Paul M. Hickey, for 25 years, and he’s been happily married...
Read MoreThis never-seen interview with Mike Peters, who lost his 30-year battle with blood cancer on April 29, 2025, took place on March 28, 2024, less than two months before his...
Read More“It is obviously evident to me that a lot of the hardcore fans of my group like that super-androgynous, covered-in-glitter, outrageous Luke. But in many ways… I had grown out...
Read MoreThirty-five years ago, Athens eccentrics the B-52s experienced one of the greatest, if most bittersweet, against-all-odds comebacks in pop music history. After the 1985 death of guitarist Ricky Wilson, they’d...
Read MoreIt was in April 1978 that underage future Bangles Vicki and Debbi Peterson ventured from the San Fernando Valley to Redondo Beach’s now-defunct Sweetwater Café to see the Cowsills (the...
Read MoreFor FLOOD‘s April 2025 digital cover story, I had the delight and honor of chatting with Lucy Dacus about her brilliant new album, Forever Is a Feeling (her first...
Read More“I’ll never escape the memes that have been created. There’s this meme of me at 15, of me crying when I got voted off Idol, that still haunts me,” jokes...
Read More“I never thought that my house would burn down. And I really never thought that my whole town would burn down,” says Los Angeles native and longtime Altadena resident Brandon...
Read MoreIn the weeks since the wildfires that swept Los Angeles in January, perhaps no local artist has become the face and voice of this tragedy more than Dawes. Singer/guitarist Taylor...
Read MoreIn early January, former Sugarcult guitarist and self-described pack-rat Marko DeSantis filmed a Cameo video giving a mini-tour of his collection of his rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia, a collection so...
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