<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
	<channel>
<title>Music at Metro Weekly (Newspaper Magazine of Gay and Lesbian Washington, DC)</title>
	<link>http://www.metroweekly.com</link>
	<description>Weekly gay publication of Washington, DC including features on news, arts, politics, lifestlye, film, music, as well as events calendars, classifieds, home ads and free personals. </description>
	<language>en-us</language>
	<docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
<image>
	<url>http://www.metroweekly.com/xml/mw_logo_small.gif</url>
	<link>http://www.metroweekly.com</link>
<title>Metro Weekly magazine</title>
</image>
<managingEditor>editor@metroweekly.com</managingEditor>
<webMaster>webmaster@metroweekly.com</webMaster>
<item>
	<title>Swedish Delight: Robyn&#44; the sassy and sweet Swede&#44; proves to be in a league of her own &#45;&#45; the opposite of mass&#45;produced Katy Perry</title>
	<link>http://www.metroweekly.com/arts_entertainment/music.php?ak=5548</link>
	<description><![CDATA[
Music: &#39;&#39;Somebody alert the authorities&#44; I got criminal intent&#44;&#39;&#39; Robyn raps on one hip hop&#45;flavored track on her playfully sublime new EP&#44; Body Talk Pt&#46; 2&#46; Her professed crime&#63; She likes to get a little dirty on the dance floor&#46; Robyn &#40;Photo by Rankin&#41; Her real crime&#63; She&#39;s disturbing the pop peace&#46; The industry keeps churning out so&#45;called artists with nothing new to offer&#44; just trite sounds and pandering provocations&#46; I&#39;ll turn to a prime offender in a moment&#46; Robyn&#44; the sassy and sweet Swedish singer&#45;songwriter&#44; continually proves to be in a league of her own&#46; In fact&#44; the 31&#45;year&#45;old&#44; who reemerged in 2008 after a couple late&#45;&#39;90s hits &#40;&#39;&#39;Show Me Love&#44;&#39;&#39; &#39;&#39;Do You Know &#91;What It Takes&#93;&#39;&#39;&#41;&#44; is getting better and better all the time&#46; Less than three months ago she released the eight&#45;track Body Talk Pt&#46; 1&#44; featuring the hit &#39;&#39;Dancing On My Own&#46;&#39;&#39; Now&#44; she&#39;s ready with Pt&#46; 2 in what&#39;s to be a 2010 trilogy&#46; I had concerns about the whole concept of three releases in one year &#45;&#45; it seemed a bit unfocused&#44; indulgent&#44; and a process that could too&#45;easily favor quantity over quality&#46; But Robyn has already proven my concerns unfounded&#44; and Pt&#46; 3 is still to come &#40;reportedly in December&#41;&#46; That&#39;s how phenomenal Pt&#46; 2 is&#46; With again only 8 tracks&#44; it may be a couple short of a full album in the traditional sense&#46; But in every other way this is pop perfection&#44; pure and simple&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
	<title>Summer Heat: Donna Summer would like her gay fans to dwell on the hits&#44; not the misunderstanding</title>
	<link>http://www.metroweekly.com/arts_entertainment/music.php?ak=5531</link>
	<description><![CDATA[
Music: &#39;&#39;I tell people&#44; if I were in prison&#44; I would be out already&#44;&#39;&#39; says Donna Summer&#46; &#39;&#39;It&#39;s kind of old&#46;&#39;&#39; In the mid&#45;&#39;80s&#44; rumors swirled that Summer had made anti&#45;gay comments&#46; At the time&#44; AIDS was ravishing the gay community and striking fear in everyone&#46; And Summer&#44; regarded as the Queen of Disco for her dominance in the genre &#45;&#45; custom built for the hedonism and freedom of nightclubs &#45;&#45; had also recently proclaimed herself a born&#45;again Christian&#46; Donna Summer To this day&#44; it remains unclear what exactly Summer said or did &#45;&#45; but reliable indications are that it was blown out of proportion&#46; Summer says she&#39;s not sure of the specifics&#46; &#40;Did she agree to pray for a gay fan with AIDS who asked her to do so&#63; Seems likely&#46; Did she go on to say AIDS was God&#39;s punishment for gay behavior&#63; She adamantly denies that&#46;&#41; &#39;&#39;I think it was &#91;based on&#93; an assumption on somebody else&#39;s part&#44; not on mine&#44;&#34; says Summer&#46; &#39;&#39;If you go&#44; &#39;Oh&#44; that person is that way&#44;&#39; then they believe &#91;it&#93;&#46; It&#39;s not necessarily something that came out of my mouth&#46; It&#39;s something that someone assumed&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
	<title>Knockout Punch: On a break from Bloc Party&#44; shy lead singer Kele savors a solo turn in the ring</title>
	<link>http://www.metroweekly.com/arts_entertainment/music.php?ak=5532</link>
	<description><![CDATA[
Music: Kele Okereke&#44; the 28&#45;year&#45;old lead singer of the popular British indie&#45;rock group Bloc Party&#44; came out publicly as gay earlier this year&#46; He&#39;s already tired of talking about it&#46; Kele &#34;It&#39;s just shyness&#44; you know&#63;&#39;&#39; Kele concedes&#46; &#39;&#39;What I say in my music and the way I write&#44; I think that that&#39;s far more eloquent than I ever will be &#91;talking about myself&#93;&#46; You open up a part of yourself when you make music&#44; and that&#39;s the part you want people to respond to&#46;&#39;&#39; Born in England to Nigerian parents&#44; coming out for Kele has brought him closer to his family&#46; &#39;&#39;Obviously&#44; there are some things that we don&#39;t agree on&#44;&#34; he says&#44; &#34;but we&#39;re closer than we ever have been&#46; That was something I was maybe worried about before coming out to them&#46; And it has taken time&#46;&#39;&#39; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
	<title>Summer Sounds: Skip the weak&#44; late American release of Lady Gaga&#39;s The Remix collection and savor instead true Songs of Summer</title>
	<link>http://www.metroweekly.com/arts_entertainment/music.php?ak=5495</link>
	<description><![CDATA[
Music: Has Lady Gaga already peaked&#63; Oh sure&#44; it was only last summer that her career as a mega&#45;star took off&#46; But it&#39;s been threatening overexposure ever since&#46; Lady Gaga Honestly&#44; can you stand to hear &#39;&#39;Paparazzi&#39;&#39; again&#63; Or another remix of &#39;&#39;Poker Face&#39;&#39;&#63; It&#39;s not clear who&#39;s left to buy it&#44; but Gaga&#39;s label has just released The Remix&#46; True fans &#45;&#45; or even just Canadians &#45;&#45; surely already have the international edition&#44; which featured a whopping 17 remixes&#44; including a Pet Shop Boys remix of &#39;&#39;Eh&#44; Eh &#40;Nothing Else I Can Say&#41;&#39;&#39; as well as a stripped&#45;down piano version of &#39;&#39;Poker Face&#46;&#39;&#39; That was released pretty much everywhere but here in May &#45;&#45; yes&#44; before summer even began&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
	<title>Cabaret Gal: Jane Krakowski brings cabaret kicking into the 21st century on her debut&#44; while Lucy Woodward&#39;s hooks you instantly</title>
	<link>http://www.metroweekly.com/arts_entertainment/music.php?ak=5473</link>
	<description><![CDATA[
Music: You wouldn&#39;t know it from her often&#45;racy acting roles&#44; but Jane Krakowski calls herself traditional&#46; Old&#45;fashioned&#44; even&#46; Her debut solo album&#44; The Laziest Gal In Town&#44; is a live recording of a cabaret show&#46; And it doesn&#39;t get much more old&#45;fashioned than that&#46; But then&#44; on the very next track&#44; a fantastic&#44; funky cover of &#39;&#39;Diamonds Are a Girl&#39;s Best Friend&#44;&#34; she inserts in the bridge key lines from a recent Kanye West tune&#46; That&#39;s right&#44; she mashes up a standard with a modern&#45;day hit &#45;&#45; inspired&#44; she says&#44; by Gwen Stefani&#39;s &#39;&#39;Rich Girl&#46;&#39;&#39; Jane Krakowski &#40;Photo by Ken Howard&#41; She even raps&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

