Jeff Lynne and ELO perform at Kia Forum in Los Angeles, Calif. on Oct. 26, 2024. LOS ANGELES — Could this really have been it? Of course, it’s really hard to believe pop stars when they try to sell us tickets for a so-called final tour, not when everyone…

Jeff Lynne’s ELO performs at Wembley Stadium in London on June 23, 2017. Courtesy Carsten Windhorst. Jeff Lynne has announced his final tour with ELO. The 27-date The Over and Out Tour will kick off on Aug. 24 and will stop at Chase Center on Sept. 1. There will…

It’s almost 2020. We’re living in an era when many of science fiction’s classics are supposed to take place. As a science fiction writer and a scholar who studies the genre, I’m acutely aware that we are not yet living in the stainless steel techno-utopia we were promised. Where’s…

Jeff Lynne’s ELO, “From Out of Nowhere.” If Jeff Lynne makes a record under the name “Jeff Lynne’s ELO” without the ELO, and the record drops more than four decades after the band’s best work, does it still make the wonderful noise of old? Not really. Is new record From Out of Nowhere still…