As I mentioned earlier in the week, three very Kenneth events happened while Damian and I were on the coast, including a performance by Su...

Susanna Hoffs was in fine form on Friday night at Le Poisson Rouge, performing Bangles classics, a couple covers (Jimmy Cliff's “Sitting...

Jennifer Otter Bickerdike’s soon-to-be-released " Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of the Bangles " sounds like a must-read...

 The Wild Honey Foundation put on a hell of an autism benefit last week in Glendale, Calif., featuring seminal garage rockers from the Seed...

I first heard the Bangles beauty perform "When You Walk in the Room" in 2012 during a solo concert at the City Winery . Of course ...

Saddened to hear about the death of Ronnie Spector at 78. Cancer has taken yet another great one, but her once-in-a-lifetime voice will live...

  This one's in honor of the great Sidney Poitier, who died Thursday at 94. It's been sweet -- and educational -- reading all the tr...

When I was a kid, every critic's list of best albums always mentioned Richard and Linda Thompson, two people I didn't know the first...

Susanna Hoffs's new album -- a collection of covers of lesser-known songs by well-known artists -- is out and I'm in heaven. It'...

Susanna Hoffs has written some of the best pop songs of my youth -- "Hero Takes a Fall" should have been the Bangles' breakout...

 Last summer I wrote about " The Most '80s Night Ever ," when a Who's Who of the Los Angeles music scene got together for ...

 Great to hear this '80s gem with real violins, cellos, etc. rather than synthesized ones.  P.S. Listen to Sue and the orchestra perfo...

I'd never heard of the Scottish band Travis before. But I'm OK with anyone who wants to work with Bangles beauty Susanna Hoffs....

ICYMI: Would love to hear from anyone who attended this "Trouble in Paradise" gala, benefiting the Inner City Law Center'...

It was less than a year ago I posted "Live," Emitt Rhodes's cult classic with the Merry-Go-Round, as my Song of the Day w...

New cover by Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day and Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles. I'm not sure how manic it is to merely sit up in my...

Three blameless women contributed to this atmospheric track from Jay Roach's film about the women of Fox News. Full soundtrack HERE...

One of the dozens and dozens of unreleased songs by the Bangles shorty. This one's a Shawn Colvin cover that appeared on Colvin...

Hard to believe I could religiously follow and buy everything by Sid 'n' Susie -- including all three versions of their "U...

So it turns out obsessively (re)reading Wikipedia entries can actually pay off -- like discovering the Bangles covered "Good Day S...