Lexi Lane
Lexi Lane links music, screen culture and everyday life in coverage that foregrounds the stories artists and entertainers tell about their work. She writes for PEOPLE as a weekend banking writer and has been covering culture and entertainment for several years, bringing a music-focused lens to the way celebrities talk about craft, influence and career. Her portfolio spans interviews with Grammy-winning musicians, Hollywood icons and fashion-forward personalities, alongside service pieces about money and time off that reflect how audiences live around pop culture.
Music stories and artist influences
Music is a core thread in Lane’s work, particularly in features that ask artists to unpack the sounds and collaborators that shaped them. In her PEOPLE piece on Finneas, she focuses on his “dream collaboration” and the rock band that inspired his award-winning music career, framing the story around how specific influences translate into the songs audiences know. That emphasis on lineage and inspiration fits with her broader music writing, where she spotlights not only current projects but the bands, eras and scenes that artists credit as formative.
Outside PEOPLE, she extends that approach to niche and fan-focused music coverage. At uDiscover Music, her bylines include a story on frames from two Black Veil Brides videos going on sale, a piece that treats rock memorabilia as another way fans connect with the band’s visual and musical identity. The combination of mainstream pop figures like Finneas and scene-specific acts such as Black Veil Brides shows that she moves comfortably between chart-topping artists and subcultural fandoms. Across these pieces, the consistent element is attention to what musicians say about influence, collaboration and the artifacts surrounding their work.
Interviews with screen legends and pop culture figures
Lane regularly builds features around direct conversations with actors and reality personalities, with a strong focus on nostalgia and the moments that turned them into icons. Her PEOPLE interview with Angela Bassett centers on which of her lines fans quote back to her most, situating a single piece of dialogue within a 40-year screen career and the way audiences memorialize it. In another PEOPLE exclusive, former Bond girl Jane Seymour talks about being “really good friends with all the Bonds” and reuniting with Pierce Brosnan; Lane uses the exchange to explore long-running professional relationships and the enduring appeal of a franchise role.
She applies the same technique to reality and pop-culture figures. In her story on Holly Madison, Lane has Madison explain how a beloved childhood toy cemented her love for Marilyn Monroe, connecting a personal object to a lifelong fascination with a screen legend. Her piece with Julia Fox focuses on Fox’s advice to younger fashion fans about trusting their personal style instincts, treating wardrobe choices as an expression of identity rather than just trend-following. These profiles are grounded in direct quotes and framed around how celebrities narrate their own turning points, whether that is a line delivery, a childhood artifact or a fashion philosophy.
Awards shows, stages and performance culture
Awards ceremonies and performance spaces are another recurring setting for Lane’s entertainment coverage. At PEOPLE, she reported on Dylan Mulvaney wearing a “Protect the Dolls” shirt in the opening of the 2026 Tony Awards, using the choice of clothing to highlight how performers bring advocacy and identity onto major stages. The story connects costume, messaging and the broader context of a live televised event, showing her interest in how values and aesthetics intersect under the spotlight.
Her work at The People’s Movies includes pieces on Ben Stiller discussing the possibility of a new “Meet the Parents” film and a report on the Oscar 2025 nominations voting period shifting because of L.A. fires. Together, those headlines point to a focus on both the creative decisions behind potential projects and the logistical realities that shape awards timelines. Across platforms, she treats awards shows and industry events not just as red-carpet spectacle but as points where creative ambition, scheduling and public presentation meet.
Service coverage on work, money and everyday culture
Alongside entertainment and music, Lane writes service journalism that connects cultural reporting to readers’ working and financial lives. Her author bio at PEOPLE notes that she is a weekend banking writer, a role that situates her in consumer-facing coverage of financial topics. In a widely shared story referenced by business and career commentators, she explored how people can maximize paid time off and budget around a “staycation summer,” using fresh labor-market data as a springboard for practical advice. Those pieces show her interest in the structural conditions behind leisure and entertainment—how people afford time off and what they do with it.
Her broader career as a culture writer includes work for outlets such as Men’s Health, NBC News and Variety, where she has contributed stories that sit at the intersection of lifestyle, entertainment and broader cultural trends. Across these assignments, she keeps the prose direct and grounded in specific examples, whether that is a bank-related decision, a vacation plan or a new release. The mix of financial and lifestyle service work with music and screen coverage gives her a portfolio that connects celebrity culture to the everyday choices of its audience.
4 more music journalists.
Aisling Murphy
Aisling Murphy is the theatre reporter and critic at The Globe and Mail. She stands out for writing about theatre as both art and infrastructure, with coverage that links new Canadian stage work, awards culture, and pop-inflected criticism. She covers theatre, music, and pop culture in a detailed, conversational style, moving between reviews, reported features, and analysis of the systems that shape what gets produced. Her beat includes the Dora Awards, Toronto stages, new writing, intimate productions, and smaller venues, as well as controversy where artistic decisions meet politics and community response. Before The Globe, she was senior editor of Intermission Magazine, and her bylines include The New York Times, Toronto Star, CBC Arts, and the Baltimore Sun.
Alex Hudson
Alex Hudson is Editor-in-Chief of Exclaim! and leads coverage of music’s links to sports, literature, and technology, with a strong focus on Canadian artists. Hudson reports on how music intersects with other fields, not as a separate industry. Recent coverage has included Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer on how playing piano saved his career, Ottawa Bluesfest’s Canada-wide soccer watch party, Lakes of Canada’s Margaret Atwood-inspired album Transgressions, Hannah Mary McKinnon on The Beaches influencing her rock-themed novel, and Alexander Nilsson’s 1001 Albums Generator as a tool for broadening music discovery beyond algorithmic recommendations.
Alexis Mikulski Ruiz
Alexis Mikulski Ruiz is a commerce writer whose distinct focus is the buying and streaming side of music, entertainment and lifestyle, helping readers decide how to watch major events and what to purchase around them. She is an e-commerce specialist at Rolling Stone, covering products, platforms and deals tied to award shows, festivals, sports and everyday culture. Her beat blends music streaming guides with shopping and product recommendations across fashion, beauty, tech, food, wellness and drinks. She reports through experience-focused service journalism, using lists, comparison roundups and step-by-step guides to answer concrete questions about how to stream major cultural moments, where to shop and which products to choose. Her background includes commerce and lifestyle writing for consumer publications such as Esquire, Men’s Health, Good Housekeeping, Oprah Daily, Women’s Wear Daily and Billboard.
Allie Gregory
Allie Gregory maps how audiences encounter new music by tracking the practical pathways of releases, tours, festivals, platforms and projects. She is a managing editor and news writer at Exclaim!, where she is a primary editorial contact for forthcoming releases and news tips and helps shape the outlet’s daily agenda around new music and its broader entertainment context. Her reporting centres on timely album and tour announcements, live logistics and festival programming across indie, metal, country, pop and adjacent film and streaming news. She writes direct, information-heavy pieces that foreground calendars, support acts, set times and programming structures, while also producing longer-form interviews, cultural stories and staff-pick recommendations that connect artists’ work, controversy and creative campaigns to how audiences encounter music and entertainment on the road, at festivals and on screens.