All posts by Doug Rule
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Pet Shops Boys debut Winner video, featuring transgender roller derby player
The Pet Shop Boys have released the video for “Winner,” the first single from their new album, Elysium, slated for relase September 18. The video...
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Musical Wanderer
Hear the one about Frank Ocean? No, it's not a joke – though at first blush it seems like one. Or at least a publicity...
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Music Over Matter
''I think if you're English, and especially if you're from London, and you're an electronic musician, then definitely going to...
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UPDATED: Remembering David Chung
If you set foot in Nellie's Sports Bar over the past four years, you knew David Chung. He may not have been the face of...
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In Tune
''I think a lot of people weren't even sure what a cappella music was before The Sing Off,'' says Eliza Berkon. Berkon's D.C.-based a cappella...
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Fringe Follies
Over the next couple weeks you can see a theatrical spoof of Fox-TV's Glee, in which troublemakers are forced to form a comedy club. Also...
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Coming to Terms
''And the world that I see is returning once more, to the world that I knew it be long before,'' Mary Chapin Carpenter sings on...
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Young, Black and Leading the Way
Frank Walker thought his life's work was with the Chicago Cubs. ''Growing up I was such a huge Cubs fan, and all I wanted to...
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Shears Force
{Scissor Sisters (Photo by Neil Krug)} Do you know what a ''kiki'' is? If not, it's just a matter of time. ''I really had no...
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Robyn's Musical Nest
Why do gays around the world love Robyn? ''I think it would be ignorant of me to assume all gay people are the same, and...
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Cinematic Details
Patrick Watson creates what you could call ''chamber-rock music'' – something like a more expansive and happier Antony & The Johnsons, or a dreamier, more...
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Anything but Comatose
{Girlina Coma (Photo by JoshHuskin)} ''It was very surreal at times, being in France or in Scotland, and opening for one of our icons,''...
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Razzle Dazzle
Chicago. Cabaret. Liza with a ''Z.'' Certainly gays are familiar with the musical output of the showy songwriting duo John Kander and the late Fred...
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Carlile's Cause
Of the perks that come with increasing fame, lesbian folk rocker Brandi Carlile is most honored by the aspiring musicians who seek out her counsel....
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Spanglish
Puerto Rico can be a peculiar experience for visitors, with its confusing mix of cultures and commercialism, of Spanish and English – Spanglish – of...
