Music
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Musical Holiday
Maybe I overdid it as a kid, and ruined Christmas forever? Every year as a kid I would exhaust myself, spinning through my parents' collection...
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Blues Alley
Cyndi Lauper calls for greater LGBT activism as her cure for the blues. ''Everybody should be active right now. Everybody should be helping in any...
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Indestructible Pop
“I got a little girl singing on repeat in my head, oh-oh,” Robyn sings, on the wicked tune “None of Dem.” For much of 2010,...
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Scottish Muse
''I've always been a very, very vivid dreamer,'' says singer-songwriter KT Tunstall. ''It's a great source of interest for me.'' Dreams inspired Tunstall's first...
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Crazy Good
Last year, British star Lily Allen caused a stir with an impossibly sweet-sounding song called ''Fuck You.'' The title alone was an attention-grabber, of course....
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Honky Cat
''I know you could be just like you should,'' Elton John sings at the top of his new set The Union. ''If it wasn't for...
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Sweet Harmony
''Throughout the '70s,'' says Carol Maillard, ''there were a lot of pop and R&B singers putting out songs that had something to do with people's...
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Classical Gas
''Everything -- everything is new,'' Antony Hegarty says, apprehensively, at the top of his new set Swanlights. What's new here? Well, not everything exactly. But...
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Gleeful Melodies
American Idol helped propel Sara Bareilles's career into the mainstream. Now, the California singer-songwriter is hoping Glee will sustain her fame. Those are exaggerated claims,...
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Oh, Henry
''It's amazing how accessible and fun it is. It's not a dry, dusty, old, antique museum of an occasion,'' says the Folger Consort's Robert Eisenstein....
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Rocking Out
Men will be at Phase 1 this weekend. And by men, organizers don't just mean MEN, the queer electro band featuring JD Samson of Le...
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Swedish Delight
''Somebody alert the authorities, I got criminal intent,'' Robyn raps on one hip hop-flavored track on her playfully sublime new EP, Body Talk Pt. 2....
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Knockout Punch
Kele Okereke, the 28-year-old lead singer of the popular British indie-rock group Bloc Party, came out publicly as gay earlier this year. He's already tired...
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Summer Heat
''I tell people, if I were in prison, I would be out already,'' says Donna Summer. ''It's kind of old.'' In the mid-'80s, rumors swirled...
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Summer Sounds
Has Lady Gaga already peaked? Oh sure, it was only last summer that her career as a mega-star took off. But it's been threatening overexposure...
