Nicole Powers: Gavin Rossdale: Wanderlust

NICOLE POWERS: Gavin Rossdale: Wanderlust

For a man capable of making so much noise, Gavin Rossdale is very soft-spoken, his somewhat guarded reticence being understandable given all that he's been through.

The singer, songwriter and musician is currently enjoying his first Billboard Top 40 hit since the heady days when he fronted the post-grunge band Bush. For a while in the mid-nineties their singles ("Comedown" and "Glycerine") ruled the airwaves, and the band toured virtually non-stop -- with a quaint little Orange County band called...

Yeah. Gavin was super cool and very knowledgeable when it came to American literature. If you're into Bukowski you may enjoy a piece I'm working on with tattoo artist and writer Jonathan Shaw which will hit the Culture section of the Newswire on Dec 1st. Jonathan wrote for The LA Free Press alongside Bukowski, and was greatly influenced -- and led astray in the best and worst ways -- by him back in the day.