Steve Appleford was a features editor for Times Community News and a contributor to the Los Angeles Times Calendar section. He is a Los Angeles native and the former editor in chief of the award-winning L.A. CityBeat. As a writer and photographer, he’s covered riots, political conventions and a whole lot of pop culture for a variety of publications including Rolling Stone, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide and LA Weekly.
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KISS frontman Gene Simmons recounts his first encounter with Eddie Van Halen in 1976, and, tearfully, his final one decades later.
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Eddie Van Halen, legendary lead guitarist for rock band Van Halen, has died of cancer at 65.
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In Nirvana’s copyright dispute with Marc Jacobs over its smiley-face logo, the band said Kurt Cobain created it. Now, their art director says he did.
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Billie Eilish and her brother and musical partner, Finneas O’Connell, talk to reporters backstage at the 62nd Grammy Awards and share how James Corden “running around singing ‘Bad Guy’” signaled they were on the road to success.
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Kobe Bryant’s death only added to the surreal atmosphere backstage at the 2020 Grammys, already mired in controversy over the ouster of its Recording Academy president and CEO.
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The Foo Fighters, Yola and Sammy Hagar were among artists who paid tribute to Aerosmith at the annual pre-Grammy MusiCares Person of the Year Gala.
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Thrash-metal pioneers Slayer play their last shows ever this weekend at the Forum, not far from their hometown of Huntington Park.
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The Queens of the Stone Age leader gathered ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons and Primus’ Les Claypool, among others, and headed out to Joshua Tree for improv and mayhem.
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Short answer: no. But having Joaquin Phoenix dance around to disgraced glam-rocker Gary Glitter’s “Rock and Roll Part 2" was a loaded directorial decision.
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Clark takes on racism and dabbles in hip-hop and R&B on his Grammy-touted album, “This Land.”