Music
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Up from Down Under
Missy Higgins became a pop star in her native Australia with her first hit, the piano-churned ''Scar.'' Five years later, she's finally starting to catch...
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Creature Feature
Montreal-based musicians Jean-Phi Goncalves and Betty Bonifassi each had their own careers going before they teamed up to experiment as Beast. Among other things, Goncalves...
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Mystery Man
Morrissey (Photo by Travis Shin) Why is Morrissey (barely) holding a contented little boy on the cover of his new album? And what is the...
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Something Wicked
Pauline Anson-Dross of Wicked Jezabel (Photo by Todd Franson ) Pauline Anson-Dross is ready for Cupid this year. ''Oh yeah, we're feeling the love...
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Soundwaves
Tracy Young D.C.'S YOUNG VALENTINE... Last fall, DJ Tracy Young spun in her hometown of Washington for the first time in way too many years,...
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Enigmatic Pop
Antony Hegarty has a voice you won't forget - and a presence you just might not remember. More than probably any other singer-songwriter you've ever...
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Smart Dance
Who you calling a bimbo: Bimbo Jones Katherine Ellis is a powerhouse vocalist, as self-assured and larger-than-life as if ripped straight out of a gay...
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Soundwaves
GRAMMY GIRLS (AND RUFUS)... Did you hear- Kathy Griffin did, in fact, get her Grammy nomination. You know, the one she was angling for. The...
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The Year in Music
The year 2008 was a good one for recorded pop music, though not as great as it could or should have been, and most of...
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Ring Leader
Well, she did it. Britney Spears now has her comeback. Her new album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's main album chart and moved nearly...
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Bathhouse Blues
If you were to record an album at a gay sex club, what kind of music would it be? Dance music seems obvious -- it's...
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Musically Gifted
Hilary Duff just released a Best Of collection. Sure, the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire is only 21. Only five years and some eight hits into...
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Destiny's Adults
It sounds like a joke, right? And not an especially good one. But Beyonce isn't kidding. She really has adopted a laughably bad alter ego...
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Think Pink
''I guess I just lost my husband,'' sings Alecia Moore, better known as the pop star Pink, at the top of the first song on...
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Magnum Opus
The title of Richard Morel's third artist album is a metaphor for a loss of innocence, and also for a time when huge, irrevocable changes...
