Lily Moayeri has been a music journalist since 1992. She has contributed to numerous publications including Billboard, NPR, Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Times, Variety, Spin, Los Angeles Magazine, A.V. Club, and more. Lily hosts the Pictures of Lily Podcast, a bi-weekly podcast about her interviewing experiences. She has participated as moderator and panelist at numerous music conferences and guest speaker at Grammy Camp.
Pop icon Cyndi Lauper wrapped up her 68-date Girls Just Want to Have Fun Farewell Tour with two nights at the Hollywood Bowl. The star-studded concerts were captured for the television special "A GRAMMY Salute to Cyndi Lauper: Live from the Hollywood Bowl," which aired on CBS on Oct. 5 and is now streaming on Paramount+. Every moment with Lauper…
Cyndi Lauper is no stranger to milestones. Along with being one of rock's most influential women, she has won two GRAMMYs (including Best New Artist), delivered an Emmy-winning acting performance ("Mad About You"), produced a Tony-winning musical ("Kinky Boots"), and served as a major advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community and women around the world. And this year has marked a…
The GRAMMY Museum had a big year in 2024. The Museum continued to showcase groundbreaking and thought-provoking exhibitions, and explore new partnerships. Currently on display at the Downtown Los Angeles space are Luther Vandross: Artistry and Elegance, which explores the R&B legend’s career, and over 150 works by Bay Area photographer Jay Blakesberg, RetroBlakesberg: The Music Never Stopped. The GRAMMY…
Howard Benson unlocks the door to his West Valley Recording Studios, which is hidden at the back of a spacious home in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. Though it has been pared down from the original space Benson opened in 2012, the tucked-away studio is a major part of the two-time Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical GRAMMY nominee's…
Moby’s past and present are converging in a serendipitous way. The multiple-GRAMMY nominee is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his seminal work, Play, the best-selling electronic dance music album of all time, and the release of his latest album, always centered at night. Where Play was a solitary creation experience for Moby, always centered at night is wholly collaborative. Recognizable…
Dillon Francis and Diplo have respectively built massive careers within dance music — but as they proved on May 15, they may have been just as successful doing stand-up comedy. The two producers came together at the GRAMMY Museum's Clive Davis Theater for a wisecracking exchange, marking the 10-year anniversary of Francis' breakthrough song with DJ Snake, the platinum-certified "Get…
Held during 2024 GRAMMY Week, the third annual #GRAMMYsNextGen Party, presented by Mastercard and Dyson, was as much an extensive art exhibition as it was an exploration of sight and sound. The initiative celebrates the leading creators and professionals shaping the future of music. Partygoers could be seen from three blocks away as they converged onto GRAMMY House in DTLA.…
The GRAMMY Museum kicked off 2024 GRAMMY Week with a feelgood ribbon-cutting celebration at its newly renamed Ray Charles Terrace on Jan. 29. The uncharacteristically temperate evening added to the welcoming vibe of the gathering, which was further enhanced by on-point selections from GRAMMY winner DJ Khalil. Attendees were all smiles, reconnecting with each other in this congenial setting, generating…
Roxy Music has always been a few steps ahead, and a few degrees to the side, of many of its contemporaries. Helmed by GRAMMY-nominated vocalist/songwriter Bryan Ferry along with Phil Manzanera, Andy Mackay and Paul Thompson (with Brian Eno as an early member), the British group is credited with birthing the art rock movement by infusing glam into rock '70s.…
Since Imagine Dragons debuted 10 years ago, billion has become their default number. Four of the hitmaking group's singles — "Radioactive," "Believer," "Demons," and "Thunder" — each have more than a billion views on YouTube and a billion streams on Spotify. Clearly those aren't the only songs that have made Imagine Dragons one of the most commercially successful rock bands…
During the first week of the GRAMMY Museum’s The Power of Women In Country Music exhibition, LeAnn Rimes stopped by the Clive Davis Theater for a special public program. Held May 31, "An Evening With LeAnn Rimes" was moderated by Marissa R. Moss, the author of the recently published book, Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the…
3D animator Andre Oshea has had a busy year of achievements within the Web3 world, the latest iteration of the internet based on blockchain technology. He created NFT drops for Netflix and the Academy Awards, appeared in documentaries, and wrote features about Web3 — an emerging space that's conducive to Oshea's rapid rise in the digital art space. In all…
Around the time of the GRAMMY Awards in 2021, Emonee LaRussa sold her first NFT. This took the 27-year-old digital artist from Sacramento, California, by surprise. Despite her popular motion graphics work for music and engaging personality on her fast-paced YouTube tutorials, LaRussa didn't think anyone would want to buy a NFT just for the sake of owning her digital…
Gender inequality in the music industry has remained a constant issue. Countless media outlets, including Pitchfork and Complex, have brought attention to the gender disparity n festival lineups with quantifiable breakdowns while organizations such as Keychange and Book More Women toil to foster change. A major factor in this industry-wide imbalance is a lack of gender equity in positions of…
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in March 2021 and has been updated to reflect her CBS television special, "A GRAMMY Salute to Cyndi Lauper." Airing on Oct. 5, the televised event will feature Joni Mitchell, Cher, Angélique Kidjo, John Legend, SZA, Mickey Guyton, Trombone Shorty, Jake Wesley Rogers, and a video tribute from Brandi Carlile. The '80s are known as a decade of excess and extremes.…
When John Prine died due to COVID-19 complications this past April, a notable group of Recording Academy members quickly released its version of the revered songwriter's classic, "Angel From Montgomery," the following month, on May 22. Led by Michael Romanowski, a GRAMMY-nominated mastering engineer and trustee of the Recording Academy's San Francisco chapter, the aim of the release was to…
