-
Elton John Recalls Surprising Iggy Pop Onstage — in a Gorilla Costume
As Sir Elton John, one of the most fabulously attired performers in rock ‘n’ roll history, prepares for his farewell tour, everyone is wondering what he’s going to wear....
-
Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova: ‘Things Are Not That Different for Our 2 Countries’
“Things are not that different, surprisingly, for our countries,” muses Nadya Tolokonnikova, leader of notorious Russian feminist punk/art collective Pussy Riot. “It’s not the easiest time right now, and...
-
Brian May Talks Politics: ‘We’re Not Heading in the Direction of Compassion’
Sitting with Yahoo and poring over his glossy new coffee table book, Queen in 3-D, guitar god and stereoscopic photography enthusiast Brian May pauses on page 88, gazing at...
-
RuPaul Talks Punk, Politics, and Pulse: ‘Most People Are Still Living in the Dark Ages’
RuPaul Charles’s days in Wee Wee Pole, the band he fronted when he was a fixture on Atlanta’s early-’80s queer new wave/punk scene, are long gone. And lamentably, he...
I am thrilled to announce that this here site, Lyndsanity.com, just took home third prize for Entertainment Blog by an Individual Not Tied to an Organization at the Los Angeles Press Club‘s 18th annual National Arts &...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
Earlier this year, Michelle Zauner had come off the exhausting 2021 whirlwind of promoting her indie-pop band Japanese Breakfast’s Grammy-nominated breakthrough album Jubilee and her acclaimed memoir Crying in H...
Read More
The Neighbourhood announced this month that they’ll be releasing their first album since 2020, Ultrasound — a record that controversially reunites them with drummer Brandon Fried, who was fired from...
Read More
Update Nov. 3: Writing on his Instagram page, Paul Rodgers has announced that while he had hoped to be able to travel to Los Angeles for Bad Company’s Rock & Roll Hall of...
Read More
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...
Read More
In 1980, 22-year-old Shaun Cassidy was seemingly on top of the teen-idol heap. He’d just played a massive concert at Houston’s 55,000-seat Astrodome stadium and released what should have been...
Read More
In 2018, I had the immense thrill of interviewing original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley for Yahoo. We talked at length about his sixth solo album, Spaceman, as well as the 40th...
Read More