Metro Weekly

Music

  • New Age

    The 28-year-old gay composer Nico Muhly is already starting to feel old. ''The fact that I have a body of work makes me feel like...

  • Cutting Edge

    ''You wanted a hit, but maybe we don't do hits. I try and try, it ends up feeling kind of wrong,'' James Murphy sings matter-of-factly...

  • Whistling Dixie

    Ever wonder what the Dixie Chicks would sound like without lead singer Natalie Maines? Well, now we know: Sheryl Crow. Crow is actually nowhere to...

  • Icelandic Surprise

    How is the singer-songwriter Jon Thor ''Jónsi'' Birgisson similar to the Icelandic volcano that shut down air traffic in Europe for days on end last...

  • Sia Change

    Sia Furler is honored to be Christina Aguilera's ''bitch.'' Furler, who records under her first name, just wrapped up work co-writing for Aguilera, as well...

  • Gay Wedding Singers

    Some singers were just made for each other. Take ''baritenors'' Jon Arterton and James Mack. ''We're told that when we sing in unison our voices...

  • King Sized

    Did you hear the one about Kaki King collaborating with Miley Cyrus? ''That would be hilarious,'' laughs King. ''I mean, of all people.'' In fact,...

  • Fool's Goldfrapp

    ''Oh-oh-oh, I've gotta rocket,'' Alison Goldfrapp wispily sings on the first single of Head First, her eponymous duo's fifth album. She knows just what she...

  • Re-emergence

    Just what is Sade's problem? Some might question why it took the singer Helen Folasade Adu -- Sade for short -- a decade to return...

  • Lube Job

    ''Grease has something to say about the family we choose,'' says Jeff Buhrman. ''GLBT people understand that concept about choosing our family, defending each other....

  • Tattooed Troubadour

    Egos were checked at the January ''Hope for Haiti'' concert telethon, with none of the performers identified by name. It was a small gesture of...

  • The Joy of Sax

    Joshua Redman had no intention of becoming a world-renowned, award-winning jazz musician. ''I didn't go to undergraduate for music – I was going to go...

  • Tegan & Sara

    Tegan and Sara Quin actually look like twins on the cover of Sainthood. ''For years we rejected this twin image, people always trying to twin...

  • Dark Disco

    ''I don't want to be ignored, oh god!'' Tom Smith cries at one point on Editors' new In This Light And On This Evening. With...

  • True Spirit

    ''There are pieces of what being gay is about that aren't really being discussed,'' says singer-songwriter Matt Alber. ''Being gay, I see things in a...