Recent Posts

• Lyndsey Parker snags 11 Southern California Journalism Award nominations, including Online Journalist of the Year, Independent
• Things fall into place. Neil Arthur on Blancmange’s 25-year hiatus and spectacular return: ‘I wouldn’t say I’m sane, but I would be less sane if I’d carried on doing it.’
• ‘Masked Singer’ finalist and Spotify’s No. 1 Happy Pop artist, Andy Grammer, talks “grounded optimism,” grief, and why “the word ‘happy’ gets a bad rap”: “It’s just not as ‘cool’ to start with major chords”
• Rocker and horror actor Kurt Deimer on his unlikely second-act career: ‘I don’t know if people can really comprehend it. I can’t even really comprehend it.’
• Lyndsey Parker chats with Music Book Club about ‘Permanent Damage’
• Briston Maroney on how a bogus label showcase for a ‘bot on the internet’ led to a real record deal, wearing ‘Mumford & Sons cosplay’ to his ‘American Idol’ audition, his love for Ween, and more
• Songwriter Knox talks ‘unexpected’ pop career, Matty Healy sliding into his DMs, being rejected by ‘American Idol,’ and his ‘big goal’ to write a song for Katy Perry
• Erasure’s Andy Bell talks solo LP, ‘family’ bond with Vince Clarke, and why critics wouldn’t give him a little respect: ‘I think they missed the point’
• Flashback: My final, poignant interview with Mike Peters of the Alarm
• The Struts’ Luke Spiller evolves on symphonic, Scott Walker-inspired solo opus: ‘The last thing I wanted to do was just hear electric guitars’