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	<title>Punk Doll: Amanda Palmer brings her lively &#147;punk cabaret&#148; to the State Theatre&#46;</title>
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Music: Amanda Palmer is nothing if not unpredictable&#46; Amanda Palmer &#39;&#39;I like mixing up music and lyrics in ways that are confusing to compel the listener&#44;&#39;&#39; the pop musician says&#46; &#39;&#39;That&#39;s another thing I really like about this art form&#46; You can make as much or as little sense as you want and you&#39;re not going to get arrested&#46;&#39;&#39; Palmer identifies as bisexual &#45;&#45; &#39;&#39;I like fucking girls&#44;&#39;&#39; she says &#45;&#45; but relates best to gay men&#46; &#39;&#39;I think I&#39;m secretly a gay man trapped in a woman&#39;s body&#44;&#39;&#39; she jokes&#46; She&#39;s been touring as a solo artist for a couple years now&#44; and last year released a superb solo debut album&#44; Who Killed Amanda Palmer&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Gift of Gab: Even if you&#39;ve already heard much of the material&#44; Kathy Griffin keeps you interested and engaged on her latest CD</title>
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Music: &#39;&#39;Tonight I&#39;m recording &#38;ndash&#59; ahem &#38;ndash&#59; a holiday CD&#44;&#39;&#39; Kathy Griffin says at the top of her new recorded set&#44; Suckin&#39; It For The Holidays&#46; &#39;&#39;I know it&#39;s a very touching and emotional title&#44;&#39;&#39; she continues&#46; &#39;&#39;And I hope you all sit around with your families and celebrate a lot of dick jokes for Kwaanza and Navidad and Christmas and all those other holidays&#46;&#39;&#39; She mentions all this just two minutes into the CD&#44; before announcing that the rest of it has nothing to do with the holidays&#46; And it doesn&#39;t&#46; It took Griffin several years into her multiple&#45;Emmy&#45;winning My Life on the D&#45;List project before she realized she could earn a Grammy nomination even though she&#39;s not a musician&#46; And boy&#44; is she making CD music now&#46; She&#39;s run away with the idea&#44; churning out a second set in as many years&#44; this one recorded last summer at a casino in Atlantic City&#46; Why&#63; Well&#44; because last year&#39;s set failed to garner her the Grammy she covets&#44; losing to a posthumous George Carlin&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Ol&#39; Blue Eyes: Michael Feinstein pays tribute to the legendary Frank Sinatra</title>
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Music: &#39;&#39;She&#39;s the one who really encouraged us to get married&#44;&#39;&#39; says singer&#45;pianist Michael Feinstein&#44; referring to his &#39;&#39;close friend&#39;&#39; Judith &#39;&#39;Judge Judy&#39;&#39; Sheindlin&#46; Judge Judy officiated Feinstein&#39;s marriage to Terrance Flannery&#44; his partner of 11 years&#44; before Prop 8 last year&#44; while same&#45;sex marriage was briefly legal in California&#46; &#39;&#39;She felt that it was important for couples who are visible in the world to show their support for the legal act&#46;&#39;&#39; Michael Feinstein Nearly 25 years since his professional recording debut&#44; Feinstein has become something of a gay activist&#46; But he remains best known as a leading interpreter and archivist of the Great American Songbook&#46; In addition to a forthcoming PBS special on the subject&#44; Feinstein is currently touring with an &#39;&#39;extraordinary&#44; 17&#45;piece big band in a celebration of that great era of music&#44;&#39;&#39; which loosely spans the two world wars and encompasses songs from early Broadway and the Jazz Age&#46; In the concert&#44; based on last year&#39;s Grammy&#45;nominated album The Sinatra Project&#44; the 53&#45;year&#45;old Feinstein specifically pays tribute to that most famous of all songbook interpreters&#44; Frank Sinatra&#46; &#39;&#39;&#91;Sinatra&#93; made it acceptable for male singers to be sensitive&#44;&#39;&#39; he says&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Pop Circus: For his newest album&#44; Mika turns to George Michael for inspiration&#44; while Basement Jaxx releases its best CD yet</title>
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Music: When Mika first emerged on the pop scene a couple years ago with Life In Cartoon Motion you could hear echoes of many of his gay&#44; dramatic British pop forebears&#44; most of whom were popular before the 26&#45;year&#45;old was even born&#46; Given Mika&#39;s penchant for singing in gorgeous falsetto&#44; Freddie Mercury of Queen seemed the most influential&#46; You can still hear Mercury all over The Boy Who Knew Too Much&#46; But now a new idol emerges&#46; &#39;&#39;I&#44; wanna be your brother&#44; wanna be your father&#44; too&#44;&#39;&#39; Mika sings&#44; on &#39;&#39;Touches You&#46;&#39;&#39; &#39;&#39;I&#44; wanna be your sister&#44; wanna be your mother&#44; too&#46; I wanna be&#44; wanna be&#44; whatever else that touches you&#46;&#39;&#39; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Seriously Sweet: Girlyman provides repeated delights with subtle meanings and sophisticated shifting vocal techniques</title>
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Music: The folk&#45;pop trio Girlyman is serious about living up to its name &#38;ndash&#59; in being sweet and sensitive&#44; even a little silly&#46; But these two women plus a man are not exactly soft&#46; Girlyman &#40;Photo by Stephanie Richardson&#41; &#39;&#39;You were throwing your shoes right up over the wire&#44;&#39;&#39; Nate Borofsky sings unadorned&#44; with full intensity&#44; at the top of the song &#39;&#39;Easy Bake Ovens&#46;&#39;&#39; The song only sounds carefree&#44; like a slice of life from childhood&#44; until you really listen to it&#46; Whether that opening metaphor refers to a loss of virginity or a house to buy drugs &#38;ndash&#59; it&#39;s not clear here which meaning they subscribe to&#160; &#38;ndash&#59; either way&#44; it signifies that innocence is gone&#46; &#39;&#39;You were setting those Easy Bake Ovens on fire&#44;&#39;&#39; Doris Muramatsu sings at the launch of the song&#39;s third of four packed verses &#38;ndash&#59; there&#39;s no chorus &#38;ndash&#59; with Borofsky and Ty Greenstein adding two&#45;part harmony&#46; &#39;&#39;I was carving my name on a chalkboard with nails&#44; waiting for somebody else to be there&#46;&#39;&#39; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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