Metro Weekly

Music

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Soundwaves

    MADONNA'S NEW MARRIAGE... Maybe Madonna will finally come back to D.C. with her next tour, since George W. Bush will no longer be president --...

  • Soundwaves

    OBAMA POP... The pop stars are coming out loud, proud and in droves for Barack Obama. Of course, that's not really news. It'd be news...

  • Fading Dream

    Jennifer Hudson says she had no particular concept in mind when developing her debut album. ''I wanted it to show flexibility and versatility,'' she says...

  • Lovelorn Lads

    Rich Morel has remixed and played Soft Complex's music at Blowoff. And yet the independent D.C. band remains relatively unknown among gays. ''We typically play...

  • Happy Phase

    Ani DiFranco takes a cheap shot as her new album, Red Letter Year, opens. ''And representing the white race, a man with a monkey for...

  • Soundwaves

    WHO DO U LOVE... Are you ready? One of gay clubland's favorite singers is returning with new material this fall. Well, yes, Whitney Houston may...

  • Soundwaves

    Rihanna WHAT'S SUMMER WITHOUT RIHANNA?... Another summer has come and gone, and Rihanna once again showed her strength as a summer songstress. But for the...