All posts by Doug Rule
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Command Performance
The Mexican folk singer Chavela Vargas was Frida Kahlo's extramarital lover for some five years. That fact helped Vargas gain wide recognition and it has...
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Propulsive Pop
With the Scissor Sisters taking its sweet time producing a second album, what are fans and followers of the half-gay and all-glammy disco-rock band to...
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Soundwaves
JANET'S NOT ''CRAZY IN LOVE''... We should hear a new single from Janet Jackson within the next month, or months in advance of Jackson's next...
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Cherry
Spring in Washington is a time for blooming and booming: When nature's emerging foliage and flowers bring out the big and the brassy, from parades...
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Soul in the Machine
''You get completely put in a different time zone when you hear them. It's like smelling a perfume, you get reminded of a certain kind...
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Country Roads
''We wanted to do something unique when it came to Cherry weekend, and we knew there hadn't been a country women's dance ever before,'' says...
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Soundwaves
''PRECIOUS'' DANCE TRACKS... Every year in March dance music's leading movers and shakers go to party after party in Miami as part of the Winter...
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Sturm and Twang
Andy Bell has one of the most underappreciated voices in pop music, and Erasure is one of pop's most underappreciated bands. Bell's big, theatrical, multi-octave...
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Happy at Last
When you hear that Morrissey has just released a new album, your first thought is that it will sound just like his old albums --...
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Freddie's Funhouse
''Take Jimmy Buffett and a drag queen, mix them together and add lots of purple,'' says Tony Rivenbark. And what does that get you? Freddie's...
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Honky Tonk
''I gotta get drunk, I just can't stay sober. There's a lot of good people in town, who like to see me holler, see me...
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Soundwaves
SONIA BOMBS THE DANCE FLOOR... Even in remixed form, it's not often that you hear a folk song on the dance floor. And it's almost...
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Rebel Yell
Fiddle no more: MacIssac Ashley MacIsaac is known as a rebellious musical traditionalist, as oxymoronic as that sounds. A native of Nova Scotia, MacIsaac is...
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Soundwaves
Deep Dish DANCE AWARDS GO DEEP... Previous Grammy winner Deep Dish failed to grab a Grammy this year, but the International Dance Music Awards is...
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James Town
Etta James knows how to cover other people's songs. She's had a lot of practice, after all. For years she's been a regular presence on...
