Metro Weekly

Music

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Soundwaves

    ABBA MAMMA MIA, HERE THEY GO AGAIN... Forget The Dark Knight. Oh sure, it's raking it in at the box office, on track to break...

  • Slacker Sensibilities

    ''I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?'' Singing one of pop music's most unusual and least forgettable lyrical refrains, Beck Hansen emerged...

  • Goddamned Great

    ''He's got the world on his back and watch him take it -- on all fours,'' Jay Brannan sings on his song ''On All Fours.''...

  • The Other Wainwright

    Despite what you might think from her new album's title, Martha Wainwright isn't asking her lover to commit adultery. She's actually professing her abiding love...

  • Soundwaves

    THE CATS' NEW MEOW... Now that summer is really, truly here, you're mind is probably dreaming about the beach and barbecue -- not to mention...

  • Katy's Shame

    Here we are, knee deep in Pride season, and there's a song speaking to us all the way at the top of the pop charts....

  • Soundwaves

    TUMBLE FOR YA... Boy George's stop at the 9:30 Club next month is now in jeopardy because the 47-year-old allegedly assaulted and imprisoned a 28-year-old...

  • Falsettoland

    ''I tried to sing, but I couldn't think of anything. That was the hardest part,'' Chris Martin sang on his band Coldplay's last album, 2005's...

  • Night Light

    ''Got this endless itch to ride into the night.'' It might as well be Cyndi Lauper's unofficial motto. Lauper sings the line on her new...