Small consolation on a sad day: Charlie Watts' final The Rolling Stones album has yet to be released. A long-in-the-works new studio album with producer Don Was is out there somewhere.

Hubris killed the radio star: My story on Larry Elder and the collapse of the California GOP. capitalandmain.com/the-california…

High Noon in Beverly Hills. My story for Los Angeles Magazine. lamag.com/citythinkblog/…

"I would see her in the nighttime, and I would say, 'How can that girl get up and write?'” remembers Ronee Blakley, from an oral history on the life and work of author Eve Babitz. Los Angeles Magazine

My talk with "an occult, pop, satanic sort of rock 'n' roll" family man. LAT Entertainment Papa V Perpetua latimes.com/entertainment-…

Music writers August Brown, 𓇼 Suzy Exposito 𓇼, @MikaelWood, “Randall Roberts” and Steve Appleford scoured Southern California for the best places to watch live music. Here’s what they found. latimes.com/entertainment-…

Incredibly proud of Jon Regardie, Steve Appleford and Rex Weiner whose incisive stories for @lamag won top honors at the LA Press Club’s SoCal Journalism Awards on Saturday.

Proud to have worked with Steve Appleford on his exclusive @lamag profile of the post-cancellation Ryan Adams, first-prize winner in the L.A. Press Club's journalism awards, now a finalist in the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards. lamag.com/culturefiles/r…

Farewell to Julian Wasser, an exceptional photographer of L.A. cultural heroes and some strange times. lamag.com/culturefiles/j…

Check out Steve Appleford's requiem for crack L.A. photojournalist Julian Wasser, who died Wednesday, and who shot the iconic photo of Eve Babitz playing chess with Marcel Duchamp lamag.com/culturefiles/j… lamag.com/article/eve-ba…

"Dan Auerbach’s vinyl obsessions and the return of @TheArcs" latimes.com/entertainment-…

Keith Morris, Mike Watt remember SPOT, producer-engineer extraordinaire behind some groundbreaking punk rock albums. mike watt Los Angeles Magazine lamag.com/culturefiles/r…

Lou Adler, Linda Ronstadt, Slash, Serj Tankian, Cheech Marin and more talk about 50 years of The Roxy Theatre. My story in Los Angeles Times.

With the passing of guitar superhero Wayne Kramer of the MC5, I dove back into my conversations with him about his activism for prison reform for this article co-published by Rolling Stone and capitalandmain.com. rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…

My article on the legacy, final years, and unexpected comeback of the late science fiction master Harlan Ellison. “The only writer who made the notion of courage essential to the writing process,” says writer-producer J. Michael J. Michael Straczynski. From Los Angeles Magazine lamag.com/books/harlan-e…

My article on the graffiti artists using abandoned L.A. luxury towers as their canvas. Shepard Fairey: "A very poetic use of a failed space." Co-published by Rolling Stone and capitalandmain.com. rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

From Black Flag to Coachella, sound engineer Dave Rat has delivered decades of live rock and dance music that can land like thunderbolts. My article in the Los Angeles Times. latimes.com/entertainment-…

He's now seen himself played by Mike Faist, but legendary photographer Danny Lyon has more stories to tell. He spoke to Steve Appleford about THE BIKERIDERS (in theaters Friday) and being embedded with a biker gang during the 1960s. latimes.com/entertainment-…

“She was so beautiful, but she looked to me like a praying mantis,” David Lynch says of his first meeting with Chrystabell. "We were just meant to work together.” From my exclusive interviews with Lynch and Chrystabell on their new album. Los Angeles Times. latimes.com/entertainment-…

With California under siege by aggressive federal immigration enforcement by masked agents and soldiers on the street, one clarifying message is a biting hip-hop track called “Kids in Cages” by the Neighborhood Kids. My story and pictures in Los Angeles Times. latimes.com/entertainment-…