Kate Sullivan

Top of the Pops

A shortlist of the people or entities who, through their irreducible weirdness or humanity, made the pop realm a more livable place this year: 1 Jack White’s surgery photos: A rock star has a duty to be strange, and almost no one is doing the job right now. (Ozzy doesn’t......
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Against Small Odds

I don’t wanna diss the Strokes for their unfair advantage: It’s not their fault they were lucky, and it’s not their fault they’re pretty good, and it’s also not their fault they’re really not that good at all. They’re a real rock band, struggling to get better, trying to spread......

A Man Out of Time

Photos by Raul Vega, Steve Diet Goedde, JulianWasser KROQ DJ Rodney Bingenheimer has had more hot-groupie sex in his lifetime than most rock stars, according to Mayor of the Sunset Strip. But this has nothing to do with his conversational skills. In fact, his small talk is lousy. His big......

Reclaiming Beauty

Photo by Anne Fishbein Writer-director Karen Moncrieff is thinking about all the bad movies that led her to write Blue Car. “I’d just seen a spate of movies that seemed to sugarcoat the coming-of-age experience, or were told from a male perspective — even the ones that purported to be......

Boy Wonder

Photo by Allen Scott If he weren't so sweet-natured and fun, Liam Lynch's name-dropping could be a drag. I mean, this guy — the creator of the KROQ sleeper "United States of Whatever" — seems to be friends with everybody: "I was over at Jack Black's last night . ......

Good Chemistry, Stale Formula

Sure, why the hell not? He‘s like KISS: He does one thing very well, without apology, and it never goes out of style. Actually, he’s better than KISS, because he usually tries to add a twist to his shtick. The problem is, when it comes to Grant‘s befuddled Everyman routine,......
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Something Pretty

Photo by Larry Hirshowitz YOU LOOK AT PATRICK PARK'S HANDS AND YOU think, "My God, his poor girlfriend." His left hand, the one that works the fretboard of his acoustic guitar, is normal, but his right hand's a nightmare. The nails, excluding the thumb, are long and pointy like a......