Music
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Soundwaves
Charmed city... At least two gay club tours traveling around the country will stop at Baltimore's Hippo nightclub. First up: DJ Seth Gold's Black Out...
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Looney Tunes
He may sing ''I've gone identity mad!'' on his debut album's opening tune and single, ''Grace Kelly,'' but Mika doesn't actually sound as confused about...
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Soul Provider
It's hard to believe that Amy Winehouse, a 23-year-old white girl from London, is the voice behind the 11 soulful tracks that comprise her second...
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Femme Virtuosos
Lucinda Williams put her faith in a lover who ''looked right into my eyes, said I'm not like the other guys.'' But her lover lied...
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Harmonic Convergence
You might be a girly man if... you spent a recent morning at work listening to the Dixie Chicks. ''We were just listening to them...
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Soundwaves
EVOLVE-ING INTO IRRELEVANCE... Victor Calderone waxes nostalgic about clubbing days past on his just-released compilation, Evolve. ''When I look back into the days, the better...
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Mister Sister
You may have heard that a Scissor Sisters show is exercise in energy -- if you're not ready to dance in the aisles, why bother?...
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Modern Makeovers
Erin McKeown's latest album launches a bit ominously, with her shouting, ''Hallelujah, all you sinners gather round...just follow me.'' It becomes easy enough to do,...
