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  • Gay Guitar Slingers

    When folk-rock singer-songwriter Eric Himan first started performing at gay clubs six years ago, people thought it was an act. ''You know how strippers dress...

  • Heartbreakers

    Don't ask the girls in Lez Zeppelin if they're lesbians -- they won't dish. ''Keeping a little bit of mystery to a group is very...

  • Chemical Reaction

    The Chemical Brothers hit it big a decade ago, with the duo's monster balls-to-the-wall hit ''Block Rockin' Beats.'' Since then, the Brothers have released a...

  • Bad Girl

    Here it is, another summer already. Time to fire up the barbeque -- and then cue up another summer anthem from Rihanna. Is the third...

  • Soundwaves

    WHEN 'NO, NO, NO' MEANS YES...America had to wait several years, but we've quickly become addicted to Amy Winehouse. The British R&B sensation's single, ''Rehab,''...

  • Soft Sell

    Musical theater aficionados will find much to love on Stardom Road, Marc Almond's new solo album. But those who know and love him primarily as...

  • Soundwaves

    TRUE COLORS, SHINING THROUGH... The weather was perfect, the crowd about as queer as they come, and then there was the lineup. Last Sunday's True...

  • Rainbow Rock

    Cyndi Lauper's 21-year-old classic pop hit ''True Colors'' is already something of a gay anthem. Now it's set to become even more -- a signature...

  • Soundwaves

    LOCAL GIRL MAKES GOOD... It's closing in on a year since ''The Real Thing'' became Rachel Panay's third Billboard Club Play Chart top ten hit....

  • Past Present

    It's not automatic, but Ultra Naté sure made it look that way at first. She just picks up right where she left off half a...

  • Over The Rainbow

    ''This is the first 'gay' album I've ever released,'' jazz musician Dave Koz says about his new album, At The Movies, a tribute to movie...

  • Gay and Yiddish

    ''For me to sing a standard Yiddish love song would kind of ring false. Pretending that I'm some straight loverboy -- it just doesn't work...

  • Soundwaves

    RENEWING OUR PRIDE... We had wandered so long in the dark, we thought we were lost forever. We kept stumbling on promising new dance compilations,...

  • Popera

    Rufus Wainwright poses a loaded question as his new album begins: ''Do I disappoint you?'' On the rambunctious song of that title, he is rhetorically...

  • Listen Up

    It's been too long since we heard anything good from the Cranberries. Remember them? Think back to the '90s and some of the Irish band's...