Lyndsey Parker

{{Short description|American journalist}}

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| birth_place = Tarzana, California, US

| occupation = Journalist, author

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Lyndsey Parker is an American entertainment journalist and author. A former managing editor at Yahoo! Music, she focuses on music and pop culture. She is the author of Reality Rocks, a column that covers television shows such as The Voice and American Idol and the co-host of the vlog, The Day After.{{cite magazine|last1=Hollywood Reporter Staff|title='American Idol' Farewell: Pundits and Bloggers Reflect on 15 Years of Covering the Show|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/idol-worship/7318827/american-idol-farewell-pundits-bloggers-reflect-15-years|accessdate=May 17, 2016|magazine=Billboard|date=April 3, 2016}}{{cite news|last1=Devine|first1=Christine|authorlink= Christine Devine|title=Music journalists really are "with the band"|url=http://www.foxla.com/entertainment/140549812-story|accessdate=May 17, 2016|work=FOX 11|date=May 12, 2016}}{{cite news|last1=Lang|first1=Derek J.|title='Idol' favorite would continue winner monotony|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/15/idol-favorite-would-continue-winner-monotony/|accessdate=May 17, 2016|newspaper=Washington Post|agency=AP|date=May 15, 2012}}

On May 28, 2018, Parker began hosting the weekly SiriusXM show "VOLUME West" along with Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The weekly satellite radio show focuses on music and features special guests.{{cite news |last1=Milman |first1=Lilly |title=Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers to Co-Host SiriusXM Talk Show 'VOLUME West' |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8457566/chad-smith-siriusxm-talk-show-volume-west |accessdate=July 16, 2018 |work=Billboard 3 |date=May 23, 2018}} Earlier in the year, she became one of the rotating panelists of musicians and industry experts on the AXSTV show The Top Ten Revealed joining, among others, Steven Adler, Jerry Greenberg, and Kenny Aronoff.{{cite news |last1=Melton |first1=Lori |title=Get to know AXS TV's 'The Top Ten Revealed' panel of experts |url=https://www.axs.com/get-to-know-axs-tv-s-the-top-ten-revealed-panel-of-experts-127687 |accessdate=July 16, 2018 |date=January 30, 2018}}

Parker wrote the Rhino ebook Careless Memories of Strange Behavior: My Notorious Life as a Duran Duran Fan, which was published in 2012. The "ultimate chronicle of one girl's very unglamorous, totally one-sided love affair with the 1980s' most glamorous band," it went to #1 on the iTunes Music Books chart.{{cite news|title=CARELESS MEMORIES OF STRANGE BEHAVIOR: MY NOTORIOUS LIFE AS A DURAN DURAN FAN|url=http://www.rhino.com/article/careless-memories-of-strange-behavior-my-notorious-life-as-a-duran-duran-fan|accessdate=May 17, 2016|work=Rhino}} She wrote a weekly column for NME called "LA Woman" from 2007 to 2012.{{cite news |last1=Parker |first1=Lyndsey |title=L.A. Woman Goes To SXSW |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/la-woman-goes-to-sxsw-48174 |accessdate=July 16, 2018 |work=NME |date=March 24, 2009}}

In addition to several documentaries, Parker has appeared on MTV, CNN, Fox News, VH1's Behind the Music, Lifetime, Good Day L.A., Tavis Smiley, The Insider on CBS and she is a weekly music commentator on Fox 11 in Los Angeles.{{cite web|title=Lyndsey Parker|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4951347/|website=IMDb.com|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=May 23, 2016}}

Parker was the official music expert on the American Music Awards’ preshow in 2015 and host of The X Factor USA's official Google Hangout chats for Season 3 of the Fox series. From 2014 to 2015, she, alongside Katie Couric, hosted Yahoo! Music/Live Nation's original interview series "Backstage with Citi," which won a Bronze Cio Award in 2015. She has also acted in the Roger Corman films The Haunting of Morella and The Watchers 2.{{cite news|last1=Blas|first1=Lorena|title=Watch: Lady Antebellum, Katie Couric are 'Backstage'|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/web-to-watch/2014/10/23/backstage-with-citi-yahoo-live-nation/17748349/|accessdate=May 23, 2016|work=USA Today|date=October 23, 2014}}{{cite web|title=American Music Awards Aggregate Content|url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAkgERrW0N6S8QbvXPB2RlwWm8zJuVS98|website=youtube.com|publisher=ABC|accessdate=May 23, 2016}}{{cite web|title=Citi Receives CIO Award|url=http://www.citigroup.com/citi/news/2010/100603e.htm|website=citigroup.com|publisher=Citi News (Press release)|accessdate=May 23, 2016}}

Parker grew up in the San Fernando Valley and attended the University of California, Los Angeles. She began writing about music in Porkchops and Applesauce, a fanzine she published from 1993 to 1997, and worked as a marketing manager at Restless Records from 1992 to 1997. In 1997, she left the label to become the managing editor at Launch. She transitioned to Yahoo! after it acquired Launch in 2001.{{cite magazine|last1=Reese|first1=Brian|title=Production Notes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qQkEAAAAMBAJ&q=lyndsey+parker+restless&pg=PA92|accessdate=May 23, 2016|magazine=Billboard|date=June 22, 1996}}{{cite web|last1=Williams|first1=Kelley|title=Yahoo Music Dismantled|url=http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/150682/yahoo-music-dismantled-with-several-other-vertical|website=allaccess.com|publisher=All Access|accessdate=May 23, 2016}}

A nominee for a 2012 Online Journalism Award,{{cite web|title=2012 Award Winners|url=http://journalists.org/awards/2012-awards/|website=journalists.org|publisher=Online Journalism Awards|accessdate=May 23, 2016}} Parker has written for publications including Elle,{{cite news |last1=Parker |first1=Lyndsey |title=Shirley Manson Is Turning 50 and DGAF About What You Think |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/music/interviews/a37349/shirley-manson-profile/ |accessdate=July 16, 2018 |work=Elle |date=July 16, 2016}} NME,{{cite web|title=Author Lyndsey Parker|url=https://www.nme.com/author/lyndsey-parker|website=nme.com|publisher=NME|accessdate=May 23, 2016}} Mojo{{cite web |title=Register op Muzieklijstjes |url=http://www.muzieklijstjes.nl/register/nummer.php?nummer=126&jaar=2004&tijdschrift=4 |website=www.muzieklijstjes.nl |accessdate=July 20, 2018}} and Guitar Player.{{cite web |title=Lyndsey Parker |url=https://www.yahoo.com/author/lyndsey-parker/ |website=Yahoo |accessdate=July 16, 2018}}

Parker collaborated with the "Mae West of 1968", The GTOs Mercy Fontenot, to co-write Fontenot's memoir, Permanent Damage: Memoirs of an Outrageous Girl. It was published by Rare Bird in June 2021.{{Cite web|title=Permanent Damage: Memoirs of an Outrageous Girl by Mercy Fontenot and Lyndsey Parker|url=https://rarebirdlit.com/permanent-damage-memoirs-of-an-outrageous-girl-by-mercy-fontenot-and-lyndsey-parker/|access-date=2021-02-04|website=Rare Bird|language=en}}