Lyndsey Parker at the NAEJ Awards in 2024.

I am delighted to announce that I have been nominated in five categories for the Los Angeles Press Club’s 18th annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards!

Two of my nominations are for Entertainment Blog by an Individual Not Tied to an Organization for this very website, Lyndsanity, and for Online Journalist of the Year — Independent. As a journalist who went totally indie in December 2023 and has been toiling tirelessly to build the Lyndsanity brand ever since, I am at a rare loss for words to describe how much this recognition means to me. Thank you, L.A. Press Club. I feel so grateful and honored.

My other three nominations are for freelance projects about artists that are dear and near to my heart: a special Totally ‘80s podcast about my pop queen Madonna’s punk origins; an interview with post-punk legends Simple Minds about their resurgence and the 40th anniversary of their bittersweet Breakfast Club breakthrough; and a Q&A with Sean Ono Lennon about his Grammy-winning, labor-of-love boxed set for his father’s once-misunderstood Mind Games album.

Congratulations to my many esteemed colleagues who also received much-deserved nominations — I’m looking forward to celebrating with and rooting for all of you at the ceremony, which will take place on Sunday, Dec. 7 at Downtown L.A.’s historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel.

Click here for the full list of 2025 NAEJ categories, and scroll down for the list of my nominations!

ONLINE JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Independent/Freelance

ENTERTAINMENT BLOG BY AN INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP NOT TIED TO AN ORGANIZATION
Lyndsanity.com

BEST ARTS OR ENTERTAINMENT REGULAR PODCAST
The Totally 80s Podcast, “Desperately Seeking: Madonna’s Punk Roots”

MUSIC FEATURE, INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS
Gold Derby, “Sean Ono Lennon on his ‘Mind Games’ Grammy nomination and stewarding his family’s legacy: ‘I’m trying to do good by my own father’”

MUSIC FEATURE, GROUP/INDUSTRY ARTISTS
 Gold Derby, “40 years later, Simple Minds still don’t regret
turning down ‘Breakfast Club’ song publishing: ‘Just look what we got out of it’”