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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
On Aug. 25, 2026, the day of Dolly Parton’s shocking death at age 80, I was honored to reflect on the country queen’s legacy on New York City’s Fox 5...
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On Aug. 25, 2026, arguably the greatest woman of all time, the universally adored Dolly Parton, died at age 80, leaving a hole in country music, pop culture, and our...
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For my latest Pollstar cover story, I chatted with notorious punk/post-punk icon John Lydon for over 90 minutes. The artist formerly known as Johnny Rotten is always unfiltered, of course,...
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On Aug. 30, East Hollywood pop/punk teen trio LED are playing the inaugural CAMP — The Next Gen Fest, a festival at Los Angeles’s Underground Museum featuring rock stars of...
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Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and three-time Grammy nominee Andrew Bird wasn’t even familiar with HBO Max’s gritty medical drama The Pitt when the show’s composter, Gavin Brivik, cold-called him with an invitation...
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On Aug. 15, I had the honor of hosting a Q&A following a sold-out, star-studded screening of Tyler Measom and Craig A. Williams’s If These Walls Could Rock, a new documentary...
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by LICORICE PIZZA RECORDS (@licoricepizzarecords) On Aug. 12, National Vinyl Record Day (the anniversary of Thomas Edison inventing the phonograph in 1877),...
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With a surname like Womack, sibling soul trio the Womack Sisters (nieces of Bobby Womack, granddaughters of Sam Cooke, and daughters of Cecil Womack and Linda Womack, aka Womack &...
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Guitarist-to-the-stars Billy Morrison recently dropped the mini-rockumentary Who the F%@k Is Billy Morrison? ahead of his fourth solo album, Hollow. But a skim of his long list of career credits...
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Last week, Wham! 10 Days in China — a new documentary about the British duo’s historic 1985 journey to the East, as the first Western pop act to play Communist...
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