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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“The Bikeriders” began as a book of photographs taken by an embedded Danny Lyon. Those images have inspired a film starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Mike Feist.
June 19, 2024
Coachella co-founder Paul Tollett tells The Times that Frank Ocean will headline the festival in 2023, and reflects on the ongoing damage of COVID-19.
Aug. 2, 2021
KISS frontman Gene Simmons recounts his first encounter with Eddie Van Halen in 1976, and, tearfully, his final one decades later.
Oct. 7, 2020
Eddie Van Halen, legendary lead guitarist for rock band Van Halen, has died of cancer at 65.
Oct. 6, 2020
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.
Sept. 22, 2020
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.
Jan. 26, 2020
La muerte de Kobe Bryant solo se sumó a la atmósfera surrealista en el backstage de los Grammy 2020, ya sumida en una controversia por el derrocamiento de su presidente y CEO de la Academia de Grabación.
Jan. 26, 2020
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.
Jan. 26, 2020