All posts by Doug Rule
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Recorded Pop Music
September Who fired Amanda Palmer? Actually, no one. The singer-songwriter and keyboardist is still with the Dresden Dolls; she's just taking a break to release...
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Radiant Day
Singer Inaya Day recalls the time she first heard herself on the radio, in the mid-1990s. ''I heard this song come on, and the chorus...
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Musical Phase
Phase 1 started having live music only a couple years ago, but just one night a week. It was, as the bar's manager Angela Lombardi...
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Soundwaves
Rihanna WHAT'S SUMMER WITHOUT RIHANNA?... Another summer has come and gone, and Rihanna once again showed her strength as a summer songstress. But for the...
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Life in Real Time
The revolution came and it was blogged. Since the advent of personal blogs as an internet phenomenon, the new media format has literally changed the...
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The New Gay Way
Laura Varlas wasn't expecting the outpouring of responses to her blog post last April about lesbian business attire, what she dubbed ''lez casual.'' ''It was...
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Soundwaves
YOKO ONO'S PEACE DANCE... In a world coming increasingly unmoored, pleas for peace may seem naïve, but they're also very necessary. Just as she did...
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Jazz Singer
Robin McKelle Remember ''Abracadabra''? The Steve Miller Band's '80s hit was good cheesy pop, but it was less magic trick than novelty act. If you...
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Soundwaves
BURNING UP HER BIRTHDAY CAKE... How many times in one year can gay bars celebrate Madonna? In fairness, it's not every year the Sticky and...
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Faraway Lands
''I'm from a land called secret Estonia, nobody knows where it's at,'' Kerli Koiv raps repeatedly on ''Creepshow,'' a blistering track off her new debut...
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New Classic
''I feel like there's a lot of ways in which being a composer now is almost more weird than being gay,'' says Nico...
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Upstairs Haven
Annie's Upstairs If it's been a few months since you've been upstairs at Annie's Paramount Steakhouse, you're in for a surprise. ''What was once a...
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Soundwaves
Ultra Nate LIKE A ROBOT AT YOUR COMMAND... Ultra Naté topped the Billboard Club Play Chart last summer with her fantastic cover of the Pointer...
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Folk Iconography
''That was the first time I had actually seen it,'' Janis Ian says about NBC's rebroadcast of her 1975 performance on Saturday Night Live. NBC...
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Mann Power
Aimee Mann writes wistfully about faded glory on her latest album. ''It must be hard seeing the same old crowd just pass you by on...
