PEOPLE: Yellowcard Singer Ryan Key Discusses the Band’s ‘Unexpected’ Reunion: ‘There’s a Real Excitement in the Air’ (Exclusive)

By Topher Gauk-Roger Published on July 24, 2023 11:40AM EDT SOURCE Yellowcard in 2023. PHOTO: ACACIA EVANS It’s been 20 years since Yellowcard dominated radio airwaves and the TRL countdown with their massive hit “Ocean Avenue,” and now the rock band is back with new music and a nationwide tour. Lead singer Ryan Key admits the band rode “off […]

SALON: How the Beatles really got booked on “The Ed Sullivan Show”

SOURCE By NICOLE MICHAEL Television host Ed Sullivan stands with English rock ‘n’ roll sensations the Beatles in between rehearsals at CBS television studios in Manhattan. (Getty Images/Bettmann) Noted filmmakers Margo Precht Speciale and Andrew Solt joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about how the Beatles really got booked on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” the lasting legacy […]

VULTURE: The Best and Most Spectacular of Queen, According to Brian May

SOURCE   “There are a lot of facets to Queen’s music. We entered into so many areas believing we could innovate.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture. Photo: Roy Wells/Mirrorpix/Getty Images Few rockers possess this crazy little thing called crowd awareness quite like Queen. After the band’s founding in the early ’70s, Brian May, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon were more […]

SPIN: 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Ben Christo Of The Sisters Of Mercy

SOURCE Name  Ben Christo Best known for  Guitars and backing vocals in The Sisters Of Mercy, lead vocalist in Diamond Black. Current city  Liverpool. Really want to be in  Anywhere playing board games with my brother. Excited about  The Sisters of Mercy’s upcoming US tour and the recent release of Diamond Black’s new single, Through the Misery. My […]

SPIN: 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: David J Of Bauhaus/ Love And Rockets

SOURCE Name David J Best known for  Being a founding member of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets as well as a solo artist. Current city  The city of tarnished angels a.k.a. Los Angeles, California. Really want to be in  The world that is evoked by playing music and fortunately I can go there whenever I play. At least […]

HOLLYWOOD LIFE: Pansy Division’s Jon Ginoli Reflects On ‘Undressed’ Turning 30: It Showed ‘The Joyful Side’ Of Being Gay (Exclusive)

By: Jason Brow Reading Time: 9 minutes June 2, 2023 12:00PM ED SOURCE In some ways, the world has drastically changed since Pansy Division, the first openly gay rock band featuring predominantly gay musicians, released Undressed in 1993. “At the time we were forming the band and doing that first album,” says Jon Ginoli, Pansy Divison’s co-founder, when talking […]

STEREOGUM: We’ve Got A File On You: Daniel Ash

APRIL 27, 2023 12:45 PM BY MICHAEL TEDDER SOURCE On the Mount Rushmore of Goth, Bauhaus shine darkly right along their colleagues in black the Cure, Joy Division, and Siouxsie And The Banshees. Few bands have ever debuted with their aesthetic so perfectly locked-in as Bauhaus did with their 1979 debut single “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” a bubbling […]

ILLINOIS ENTERTAINER (cover): The Sisters of Mercy

SOURCE By Tom Lanham Like many of us over the past three COVID-constricted years, I — as both a journalist and a human being, in general — spent a great deal of time looking back, reflecting on past decisions, discoveries, and early drug-related derailments, and not always comfortably. I’ve made a few mistakes over my […]