Music
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Soundwaves
POP POLITICS… This Sunday, we can hope for some political agitation from musicians at the Capital Pride Festival pulpit. And pop stars of various stripes...
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Group Notes
Whether you're preparing to throw a party at your beach house, at your summer home, at your pool party, or in your car -- celebrating...
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Unheard Of
If you hunger for great music beyond the obvious choices such as OutKast, Melissa Etheridge, JC Chasez and Loretta Lynn, how do you choose among...
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DONNA SUMMER REVIVAL?… Will Jennifer Hudson and La Toya London -- and Fantasia Barrino too, if the worst happens -- get recording contracts after the...
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Magnum Opus
It's been years since we've heard from him, but Armand Van Helden wastes no time reasserting himself. That he has managed to do it almost...
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A DJ'S NO SPIN ZONE… Dance music makers are a competitive lot, since there are a great number of them, chasing after the same fame...
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FILL ME UP WITH GAS… Can music make you hungry? Some of it sure can give you gas. Haru, a New York-based Japanese restaurant chain,...
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Anastacia ANASTACIA'S ALLEGED USE OF SCIENCE… Singer Anastacia has been far more successful in Europe than in her native America, where few know of her...
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Damita So-So
Janet Jackson got spooked by Madonna. Or so it seems. Madonna, you'll recall, yanked her sure-to-provoke-conversation antiwar video for ''American Life '' a year ago,...
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Pin-Up Pop
Pop musicland is a desert. It's nearly barren of openly gay male solo stars. Ari Gold is one of at least two gay pin-up boys...
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HUNG OVER… William Hung just might become the most remembered American Idol yet, despite his dismissal from the FOX show during the third season tryouts....
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Queer Makeover
In the everyday struggle between style and substance, the best-hoped-for outcome is a mutually reinforced middle ground. But reaching that middle ground is no easy...
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Expected Pleasures
You won't find many surprises in the Indigo Girls' latest outing, but with folk-pop this accomplished that's not a bad thing If it ain't broke,...
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Vacuum Vibes
Electronic music usually makes you want to hit a dance floor. But give Arthur Loves Plastic a spin, and it may sway you to sweep....
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Soundwaves
DANCE MUSIC'S MOST POPULAR...Washington's own Deep Dish was voted most popular DJ last week at the biggest annual confab of danceheads this side of the...
