Music
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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...
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Cabaret Gal
You wouldn't know it from her often-racy acting roles, but Jane Krakowski calls herself traditional. Old-fashioned, even. Her debut solo album, The Laziest Gal In...
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Musical Illusion
''I'm alive and I'm on fire,'' Sarah McLachlan sings on ''Loving You Is Easy,'' the first single from her new album. ''Shot like a starburst...
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Mother's Milkshake
On the song ''Scream'' from her new album, Kelis verbally prances out her lyrics just like a ''Vogue''-ing Madonna. ''So lets get to it, now...
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Vocal Glee
''I'm really excited about sharing the stage with Marvin Hamlisch,'' says Idina Menzel. ''We might even do a song together. I'm trying to get him...
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Club Cutlery
''What if music hadn't stopped dead in its tracks? What if you could pick up where that left off?'' Those were the questions that...
