Salem Ilese was still in elementary school when she got her first big break, but she was clearly already born to be a pop star. Her supportive parents — her...

“If people are scared enough by the performance to want to actually leave, then we’re doing a good thing.” So declares Jack Xander, the 23-year-old shapeshifting L.A. artist formerly and...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by LICORICE PIZZA RECORDS (@licoricepizzarecords) On May 30, orange-tracksuited icon DJ Lance Rock did a DJ set at Studio City’s famous Licorice...

Sorry, Dos Equis guy, but Kurt Deimer might be the actual most interesting man in the world. Perhaps no rocker has had such an unorthodox career as Deimer. He worked...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by LICORICE PIZZA RECORDS (@licoricepizzarecords) During the 13th season of American Idol, a 15-year-old singer-songwriter named Briston Maroney raspily belted the Rolling Stones’...

“It’s just been a crazy and honestly kind of unexpected journey. I never thought I would be an artist. I was always just trying to be the songwriter, and I...

“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...

 (Editor’s note: This interview was conducted before the devastating January 2025 fires in Los Angeles, the city Karter currently calls home.) On Jan. 31, rock ‘n’ roll heroine Kelsy Karter and...

One year ago, Eagles of Death Metal bassist Jennie Vee had a vision — literally. A fashionista whose grandfather was a Croatian tailor and whose mother was an “amazing sewer,”...

Licorice Pizza Records owner/music producer Kerry Brown and I recently sat down with Spectrum News 1 to discuss the revival of the Licorice Pizza brand, which includes not only a...