Randy L Schmidt has written books on Karen Carpenter, Judy Garland and – his latest – Dolly Parton. Oh, for some reason Loverboy was interested. Resident camp queen aficionado Fallon Gold met with Randy and talked queer icons, fantasy duets and Karen Carpenter’s drumming prowess. Fact: Dolly Parton is magnificent. When I saw her […]
Electro-pop band POLSKY have been on the Loverboy radar for some time and we’ve been eagerly awaiting their debut album. We need wait no more. Subtitled ‘A Manifesto For Modern Life’, POLSKY’s My Own Company is ‘a musical corporate identity for the modern day’. And one of the best albums we’ve heard in a long […]
Today – if she had lived – Judy Garland would have been 94. It’s hard to imagine her surviving this long. But heck – her daughter Liza is 70. Who’d have thought that would happen? (Though obvs thank the goddess she is still here!) Still, cuz she started in show business when she was 3, […]
Punk-edged country about Judy Garland? How could Loverboy’s Fallon Gold not fall in love with Frog? Loverboy first encountered Frog – a two-person band from Queens, NY – when we heard their joyous track ‘Judy Garland’. Of course we wanted to know ‘why Judy?’ and their knowledge and enthusiasm for Jude’s place in the American […]
IKON: This week Fallon Gold writes about her love for Jacqueline Susann and her novels including Valley of the Dolls. Growing up, there were a handful of books belonging to my mum that I would hide under my pillow and secretly read with a torch under the covers. They were all popular often notorious novels […]
