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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...
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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If These Walls Could Rock, a documentary directed by Tyler Measom and Craig A. Williams about legendary Hollywood hideaway the Sunset Marquis hotel, is packed with many wild rock ‘n’...
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At one point during Houston pop-rock band Waterparks’ hilarious interview at Studio City’s Licorice Pizza Records — right before they autograph their new album, JINX, for a ‘round-the-block line of...
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In 1985, Wham! became the first Western pop act to play Communist China, and British New Wave filmmaker Lindsay Anderson came along to capture George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s historic...
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British-born, American-raised rock cat Barns Courtney has lived at least nine lives, but it’s on his new concert album Live and Wired, recorded in Paris, that he truly comes into...
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Devo — aptly described by cofounder Gerald Casale in their recent Grammy-nominated Netflix documentary as “most misunderstood band in the world” — were always political, with their own unique form...
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If there’s ever a sure sign that a band has “made it” in show business, it’s getting parodied by the Mighty Boosh. That’s exactly what happened to Ladytron during the...
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Ringo Starr has lived in America for more than 50 of his 86 years, and he has held his annual Peace & Love Birthday Celebration in various U.S. locales, including...
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