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	<title>Soundwaves: Tracy Young&#44; Atlantis Events&#44; Dance Grammys&#44; Daft Punk&#44; Justice&#44; Wammies&#44; more</title>
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Soundwaves: Tracy Young D&#46;C&#46;&#39;S YOUNG VALENTINE&#46;&#46;&#46; Last fall&#44; DJ Tracy Young spun in her hometown of Washington for the first time in way too many years&#44; hitting Be Bar&#46; This Saturday&#44; Feb&#46; 14&#44; she&#39;ll finally make her debut at Town&#46; The gay circuit&#39;s No&#46; 1 female DJ is coming in part to support her latest compilation&#44; Tracy Young Presents Genesis Part 1&#44; released on her own Ferosh label and named after her famed New Year&#39;s Day party in Miami&#44; her adopted hometown&#46; In a couple weeks&#44; the lesbian will headline Miami&#39;s happiest event&#44; the Winter Party&#44; spinning right on South Beach in the glorious afternoon heat&#46; But first&#44; she&#39;ll bring her sweet heat to us&#46; Welcome back to town&#46;&#46;&#46;&#46; ATLANTIS&#39; BEST MOVE YET&#46;&#46;&#46; &#39;&#39;Though the album is the second in the Move series&#44; I really didn&#39;t pay much attention to the first&#44;&#39;&#39; Wayne G candidly admits in a press release&#46; Last year&#44; Manny Lehman compiled the first double&#45;set in Atlantis Events&#39; Move DJ&#45;compilation series&#44; released on Tommy Boy&#39;s Silver Label&#46; But everyone would be better off just focusing on the second edition&#44; Wayne G&#39;s Move&#58; Atlantis Dance 2009&#46; Wayne G&#44; one of Europe&#39;s leading gay DJs who will make his D&#46;C&#46; debut at Town Saturday&#44; Feb&#46; 28&#44; proves why he&#39;s been a staple on the leading gay cruise company for five years now&#46; He demonstrates real versatility&#46; Whereas Lehman only thought to produce one disc of vocal&#45;based club mixes and then a second simply with dub versions of the same songs &#45; wow&#44; how creative &#45; Wayne G created a light&#44; swaying tea&#45;dance disc and then a dark&#44; sweat&#45;pouring late&#45;hours disc&#44; the kind of music you hear while &#39;&#39;at sea&#46;&#39;&#39; A couple artists factor on both discs &#45; Darren Hayes&#44; Rosabel&#44; Bimbo Jones&#44; Ultra Nat&#233; &#45;&#45; but no one song repeats&#46; More than a third of the 24 tracks here are Wayne G&#39;s own productions or remixes&#44; and they&#39;re all first&#45;rate&#44; including many re&#45;worked classics&#46; He also has a clever way of pairing songs together&#46; Opening the set&#44; for example&#44; he ties Ultra Nat&#233;&#39;s &#39;&#39;Twisted&#39;&#39; to Kristine W&#39;s recent dance chart&#45;topper &#39;&#39;Never&#39;&#39; by repeating Nate&#39;s command&#44; &#39;&#39;Don&#39;t let nobody steal your joy&#39;&#39; as &#39;&#39;Never&#39;&#39; begins&#46; Just a minute later&#44; Kristine W&#46; sings&#44; &#39;&#39;You can&#39;t steal my joy&#39;&#39; in her song&#39;s chorus&#46; Message received&#33; Party on&#46;&#46;&#46;&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Soundwaves: Grammy Awards&#44; Rufus Wainwright&#44; Robyn&#44; Annie Lennox&#44; Lance Bass</title>
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Soundwaves: GRAMMY GIRLS &#40;AND RUFUS&#41;&#46;&#46;&#46; Did you hear&#45; Kathy Griffin did&#44; in fact&#44; get her Grammy nomination&#46; You know&#44; the one she was angling for&#46; The one for which she specifically created last year&#39;s For Your Consideration&#46; Ain&#39;t that cool&#45; She&#39;s up against Lewis Black&#44; Flight of the Conchords&#44; Harry Shearer and the late George Carlin for Best Comedy Album&#46; Robyn &#40;Photo by Samantha Rapp&#41; Did you also hear about Rufus Wainwright&#45; His Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall will battle albums by Natalie Cole and Barry Manilow for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album&#46; And how about Madonna&#45; Madonna earned a total of three nods &#45;&#45; though Hard Candy didn&#39;t get nominated for Best Electronic&#47;Dance Album&#46; I repeat&#44; Hard Candy did not get nominated as Best Dance Album&#44; the category Madge won in 2007 for Confessions on a Dance Floor&#46; So instead&#44; let&#39;s all root for the opening act from select European dates of her Sticky and Sweet Tour &#45;&#45; and here&#39;s hoping Robyn beats out Cyndi Lauper&#44; Kylie Minogue&#44; Daft Punk&#44; Moby and Brazilian Girls for the Best Dance Album Grammy&#46; Tall order&#44; for sure&#46; But Robyn is ballsy enough to take on all comers&#44; and Robyn is far and away better than all those artists&#39; albums &#45;&#45; it&#39;s one of the very best albums released the past couple years&#44; bar none&#46; The album nod was the only one for Robyn&#44; alas&#46; Madonna got two in the three dance categories&#44; the first courtesy of Junkie XL&#39;s remix of &#39;&#39;4 Minutes&#46;&#39;&#39; That will battle for Best Remixed Recording against StoneBridge&#39;s &#39;&#39;Closer&#39;&#39; by Ne&#45;Yo&#44; Justice&#39;s &#39;&#39;Electric Feel&#39;&#39; by MGMT&#44; Deadmau5&#39;s &#39;&#39;The Longest Road&#39;&#39; by Morgan Page feat&#46; Lissie and &#45; are you ready&#45; &#45; Moto Blanco&#39;s &#39;&#39;Just Fine&#39;&#39; by Mary J&#46; Blige&#46; Yep&#44; it&#39;s a newer crew of remixers this year&#46; Meanwhile&#44; Madonna&#39;s &#39;&#39;Give It 2 Me&#39;&#39; will duke it out with Rihanna&#39;s &#39;&#39;Disturbia&#39;&#39; for Best Dance Recording&#46; That&#39;s a battle right there&#44; but then there are the other contenders&#58; Daft Punk&#39;s &#39;&#39;Harder Better Faster Stronger&#44;&#39;&#39; Lady Gaga&#39;s &#39;&#39;Just Dance&#44;&#39;&#39; Hot Chip&#39;s &#39;&#39;Ready for the Floor&#39;&#39; and Sam Sparro&#39;s &#39;&#39;Black &#38; Gold&#46;&#39;&#39; Sparro&#45; Black&#45; I&#39;ve never heard of that one&#44; either&#46; Oh well&#46;&#46;&#46;&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Soundwaves: Madonna&#44; Good Charlotte&#44; Hot Chip</title>
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Soundwaves: MADONNA&#39;S NEW MARRIAGE&#46;&#46;&#46; Maybe Madonna will finally come back to D&#46;C&#46; with her next tour&#44; since George W&#46; Bush will no longer be president &#45;&#45; apparently the reason she hasn&#39;t stopped here since 2001&#39;s Drowned World Tour&#46; Chances will be greater if Barack Obama wins&#44; of course&#46; But for now&#44; the only way to see her eighth worldwide show&#44; the Sticky and Sweet Tour&#44; is to either travel or wait for it on DVD&#46; No word on when that will happen&#44; but since the tour doesn&#39;t wrap until December in Brazil&#44; it likely won&#39;t be until early next year at the earliest&#46; Madonna When you do get a chance to see it&#44; chances are you&#39;ll fall for her mashed&#45;up recreation of &#39;&#39;Like A Prayer&#39;&#39; &#45;&#45; and chances are you&#39;ll soon be hearing it in clubland&#44; too&#46; &#39;&#39;It feels like&#59; It feels like&#59; It feels like home&#44;&#39;&#39; Dino Lenny sings&#44; as Madonna replies&#44; &#39;&#39;Just like a prayer&#44; your voice can take me there&#46;&#39;&#39; Dino who&#63; Actually&#44; &#39;&#39;Feels Like Home&#39;&#39; is a European dance hit from last year credited to Meck&#44; the alias of DJ Craig Dimech&#44; a behind&#45;the&#45;scenes player in British dance music&#46; He worked with the Italian Lenny&#44; who has a wonderfully haunting voice reminiscent of Depeche Mode&#39;s Dave Gahan&#44; to fashion what has become his first international hit&#44; the raw basis of which comes from a 16&#45;year&#45;old house hit&#44; Felix&#39;s &#39;&#39;Don&#39;t You Want Me&#46;&#39;&#39; So in marrying &#39;&#39;Feels Like Home&#39;&#39; with &#39;&#39;Like A Prayer&#44;&#39;&#39; Madonna not only recreated for today&#39;s dancefloor one of her best older songs&#46; She also once again spotlighted a budding act worthy of more attention&#46; Ready&#63; Meck is&#46; The follow&#45;up single &#39;&#39;So Strong&#39;&#39; is fantastic&#44; and it serves as Dimech&#39;s M&#46;O&#46; as well as a promise&#46; &#39;&#39;And I feel so strong&#44; if nothing goes wrong&#44; I&#39;ll pay back tomorrow&#44;&#39;&#39; Lenny seems to be singing&#44; based on what I can make of the lyrics&#46; &#39;&#39;Stay right back&#44; &#39;cause it&#39;s taking on the dance floor&#33;&#39;&#39; And it will&#46; Dimech works those intense high&#45;church&#44; pipe&#45;organ style synths that trance gave us &#40;think Faithless&#39; &#39;&#39;Insomnia&#39;&#39;&#41;&#46; Actually&#44; Dimech samples heavily from this year&#39;s club hit &#39;&#39;Hold That Sucker Down&#44;&#39;&#39; a serviceable number from David Vendetta&#47;QT Quartet that you wanted to like more than you did&#46; Meck&#39;s &#39;&#39;So Strong&#39;&#39; original hits with Nine Inch Nails&#45;esque force&#44; while the Inpetto&#39;s remix is a fascinating rework that&#39;ll floor you&#46;&#46;&#46;&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Soundwaves: Barack Obama&#44; Rachel Panay&#44; The Killers&#44; Depeche Mode&#44; Franz Ferdinand&#44; NYC&#39;s Day of the Dead Party</title>
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Soundwaves: OBAMA POP&#46;&#46;&#46; The pop stars are coming out loud&#44; proud and in droves for Barack Obama&#46; Of course&#44; that&#39;s not really news&#46; It&#39;d be news if anyone you knew and listened to created songs or planned concerts for John McCain&#46; Instead&#44; McCain&#39;s camp has taken heat from Heart and Foo Fighters for using their songs at events&#46; Jackson Browne even sued to force the McCain campaign to stop playing his song &#39;&#39;Running on Empty&#46;&#39;&#39; No such bad news for Obama&#46; Artists are lining up to compose and campaign for him&#46; Even Boy George has surfaced in the cause&#46; He may have been kept away from touring America this summer due to visa issues&#44; but the Brit is still keen on our country &#45;&#45; or at least Obama&#46; The gay Culture Club singer has created his own tune honoring the candidate&#46; &#39;&#39;Yes We Can&#39;&#39; isn&#39;t nearly as inspiring as the message&#46; But electronic music magazine Big Shot reports Pete Heller and Tom &#39;&#39;Superchumbo&#39;&#39; Stephan have both turned in remixes&#44; so there&#39;s still hope&#46; D&#46;C&#46;&#45;native Rachel Panay has released an optimistic dance&#45;shouter &#39;&#39;Change is Just Around the Corner&#46;&#39;&#39; Techno veterans Crystal Method have reworked its 18&#45;year&#45;old song &#39;&#39;Now is the Time&#44;&#39;&#39; which they say was inspired by civil rights speeches&#44; this time including a sample of Obama saying as much&#46; And then of course there&#39;s the official compilation &#45;&#45; does McCain have an official campaign compilation&#63; If he does&#44; it surely doesn&#39;t feature Kanye West&#44; Stevie Wonder&#44; Jill Scott&#44; The Eurythmics&#39; Dave Stewart&#44; John Legend&#44; Sheryl Crow and other pop A&#45;listers&#44; as Obama&#39;s does&#46; Available on the Obama website&#44; Yes We Can&#58; Voices of a Grassroots Movement costs &#36;24&#46;99 as a digital download or &#36;30 for a physical disc&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Soundwaves: Deborah Cox&#44; Beyonce&#44; Britney Spears&#44; Lily Allen</title>
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Soundwaves: WHO DO U LOVE&#46;&#46;&#46; Are you ready&#63; One of gay clubland&#39;s favorite singers is returning with new material this fall&#46; Well&#44; yes&#44; Whitney Houston may return&#44; if she can get her act together&#46; But that&#39;s not who I mean&#46; Same script&#44; different cast&#58; Houston&#39;s one&#45;time duet partner Deborah Cox will release The Promise later this fall&#46; Of course&#44; just last year Cox released Destination Moon&#44; her fourth studio album&#44; but no remixes ever surfaced from it&#46; As a high&#45;concept tribute to jazz singer Dinah Washington&#44; it had limited appeal&#46; Her previous set&#44; The Morning After&#44; was released all the way back in 2002&#46; Deborah Cox The 34&#45;year&#45;old Canadian native started as a backing vocalist for Celine Dion&#44; then became a prot&#233;g&#233; of Arista Records&#39; Clive Davis&#44; the legendary label honcho who also championed Houston&#46; Exactly one decade ago Cox scored her only major mainstream hit&#44; &#39;&#39;Nobody&#39;s Supposed to Be Here&#44;&#39;&#39; and Hex Hector&#39;s remix of that song was just one of over a dozen hits she&#39;s had in clubland&#46; Four years ago&#44; she made a rare foray on Broadway&#44; starring in the Elton John&#47;Tim Rice Disney musical AIDA&#46; But she got her start in R&#38;B&#44; so to R&#38;B she now returns&#46; On The Promise&#44; which Cox will release Nov&#46; 11 on her own label&#44; the artist worked with many notable producers&#44; including John Legend&#44; who co&#45;wrote the album&#39;s title track&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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