In 2020, The Airborne Toxic Event‘s Mikel Jollett published a well-received memoir, Hollywood Park. As part of a deep-dive into the singer’s life, the book chronicled his mental health journey — a ...

To Mikel Jollett, there’s a very simple reason why so many people who have been traumatized become performers. “Because you have to hide your trauma from everyone,” he says. “So you perform. Some ...

Musician and author Mikel Jollett will speak about the relationship between trauma and creativity at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts on Tuesday. Jollett, 48, is best known for his work ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — As a young music journalist Mikel Jollett treated the job like a research project, a chance “to go meet my idols and ask them a lot of questions about songwriting.” He got to talk craft ...

Since the release of their new album “Glory,” most of the questions The Airborne Toxic Event’s Mikel Jollett gets asked consist of “are you ok?” The Los Angeles band whose name comes from the 1985 Don ...

Addiction is often a family affair. Sometimes those growing up in families with addiction overcome their circumstances and find a sustainable way to be a person in the world. Sometimes they don't.

Enough time has passed that the thoughts of Ohio State elicit little more than a neutral response from Mikel Jollett. For more than 15 years, the founder, lead singer and songwriter of alternative ...

Mikel Jollett understands what it’s like to have a no-good, very bad week. As the front man for L.A.’s The Airborne Toxic Event, he’s known for his serious-man’s lyrics and moody, oft-brooding subject ...

It was an older crowd than Mikel Jollett is used to. Jollett, 50, leads the indie rock band Airborne Toxic Event. Most of the people at the Hughes Community Center were well into their Medicare years.

Coachella is a small town east of Palm Springs, California, right in the middle of the Mojave Desert. And for the past six years, it has played host to one of the most respected rock music festivals ...