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Mike Garson recalls final conversations and performances with ‘dream boss’ David Bowie By

“Everybody that I have spoken to, the first thing that they say is: ‘Is it really 10 years?’” So says Mike Garson, speaking from his home studio in the San...

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Lyndsey Parker’s year-end interview roundup for 2025 By

As the year comes to a close, I have rounded up the 75 published interviews I did in 2025 — as freelance assignments, at Licorice Pizza Records, and for Lyndsanity.com...

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How tragedy and loss inspired One Outta Ten’s best music yet: ‘I was just vomiting on a page, and it was all grief. It was like tears mixed with vomit. But it was good.’ By

Almost 15 years ago, guitarist/vocalist Joshua and drummer David De Leon started playing Beatles covers in their Glendale family garage. Then the Guitar Hero-raised brothers made their unofficial public musical...

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American Mile on being ‘$30,000 in debt’ and chasing the American dream: ‘I don’t think any of us would be here if we didn’t have real passion’ By

In 2025, roots-rock road warriors American Mile played at least 200 shows. But that wasn’t the case, obviously, five years ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic wiped everyone’s calendars and canceled...

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‘The Voice’ Season 28 winner Aiden Ross on why he almost quit music: ‘I never want to forget that feeling like I had lost everything’ By

To most viewers, newly crowned The Voice champion Aiden Ross might have seemed like an obvious frontrunner throughout Season 28. After all, his four-chair Blind Audition was the first to...

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100-years-young Dick Van Dyke on the keys to longevity: ‘Genes,’ ‘exercise,’ and ‘a beautiful young wife half my age to take care of me’ By

Embed from Getty Images When Tony-, Emmy-, Grammy-, and SAG Award-winning star of stage and screen Dick Van Dyke appeared as the Gnome on The Masked Singer in 2023 —...

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Truman Sinclair on his tribute to the ‘cultural beauty’ of a divided America: ‘I just wanted to take it back’ By

“I think for a while an American flag was almost this thing that was a symbol of hate. And I was like, ‘I don’t want it to be like that.’”...

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Gorillaz 25th anniversary cover story for FLOOD magazine By

I don’t know if I have ever been so excited, or daunted, by an assignment than my new 6,000-word FLOOD cover story about the past 25 (yes, TWENTY-FIVE!) years of...

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Rufus Wainwright talks Hooray for the Holidays, Folk Cancer, and mother Kate McGarrigle’s final performance: ‘All of the atoms in her body just rallied’ By

In January 2010, folk legend Kate McGarrigle, beloved mother of singer-songwriters Rufus and Martha Wainwright, passed away at age 63 from a rare form of cancer called sarcoma. She gave her...

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How Yellowcard, after a nine-year hiatus and ‘the lowest point in our career and possibly our lives,’ finally found ‘Better Days’ By

In 2003, Florida pop-punk band Yellowcard burst onto the KROQ-meets-TRL mainstream with their major-label debut album and its teenage-dreaming breakout single, “Ocean Avenue.” But surprisingly, it took another 22 years...

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