Ashley Zlatopolsky

Freelance writer

Freelance writer.

Record Store Day's Hottest Special Releases -- From David Bowie to Vintage Madonna

April 08, 2016 4:47 PM EDT

Vinyl and cassettes are experiencing an unlikely renaissance, but the brick-and-mortar mom-and-pop stores built to sell them are closing in droves. Enter Record Store Day (RSD), an annual celebration of independent music shops across the globe, now in its ninth year.

Magazine Feature

Pop-Punkers Simple Plan's Tour Essentials -- From Road Reads to Fresh Underwear

March 04, 2016 2:30 PM EST

Ahead of a 22-date European trek this spring, singer Pierre Bouvier and drummer Chuck Comeau, both 36, share very practical, totally age-appropriate travel tips.

Pop

Miley Cyrus Brings Her Dead Petz for a Messy, Psychedelic Performance in Detroit: Live Review

November 22, 2015 1:53 PM EST

Flanked by her Dead Petz -- aka members of the Flaming Lips -- Miley Cyrus took an arena-sized performance and crammed it into a club venue for the second stop of the ultra-psychedelic Milky Milky Milk tour, going so overboard and so over the top that no other pop star on earth, not even Madonna, could match its excessive nature.

Rock

Deftones Triumphs, Incubus Coasts Along at Co-Headlining Tour Opener: Live Review

July 23, 2015 12:10 PM EDT

The 18-show U.S. summer tour kicked off last night (July 22) at Clarkston’s DTE Energy Music Theatre, just north of Detroit, Michigan, with opening performances by The Bots and Death From Above 1979. However, Deftones were awkwardly slotted before Incubus, which proved to be an uncomfortable shift in atmosphere.

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