Metro Weekly

Music

  • Pop Love

    It's funny how freeing coming out can be. Though Mika only officially came out as gay a few months ago, after he had already completed...

  • Babs Is Back

    Barbra Streisand sounds as great and glorious as she did in her heyday on her new offering, Release Me. Of course, that's because most of...

  • Rose Colored

    ''I always say I'm the president of the Bette Midler Changed My Life Club,'' jokes Amanda McBroom, who early in her career wrote ''The Rose.''...

  • Funny Mann

    For the record, Aimee Mann doesn't do windows. That's despite what you may have seen on Portlandia. In the IFC sketch comedy show, the rocker...

  • Nina's Legacy

    Meshell Ndegeocello isn't living in the past. She says the present is far better. ''I was reading the Nina Simone I Put A Spell...

  • Pink Passion

    Lady Gaga may be the reigning diva for many, or most, of those in the younger gay generation. But if they'll only reconsider, there is...

  • Life and Deathfix

    ''I'm in good health,'' says Rich Morel, adding with a laugh, ''I'm going to make it through the weekend.'' Morel is in better health –...

  • Watch Barbra Streisand’s new video, “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today”

    Barbra Streisand’s new album Release Me drops on Tuesday, Oct. 9. The music video from “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today,” is available to...

  • Passionate Feeling

    Melissa Etheridge ends her new album 4th Street Feeling in a state of heat, plain and simple. ''I think I'm ready to try my hand...

  • Rock Starr

    To set the record straight, Garrison Starr is not the girl Katy Perry kissed and told about in song. ''No, no, it wasn't,'' Starr laughs....

  • Intimate Festival

    ''We've had crazy responses from people already worried about whether or not they're going to be able to get in,'' says Angela Lombardi, general manager...

  • Orbital playing US dates starting this weekend.

    The electronic duo Orbital — Paul and Paul Hartnoll — is coming to the states next week to several west coast dates. They’ll be playing...

  • Heaven's End

    Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are ready for The Love Boat. As the Pet Shop Boys, the two have even written a song for the...

  • Dragonette Fire

    ''We get to do a lot of gay parties or gay events,'' beams Martina Sorbara, singer for the electro-pop band Dragonette. ''I don't know why,...

  • Midlife Melody

    ''I would certainly welcome a midlife crisis,'' deadpans Bob Mould, ''because that would probably get me a shiny car and a couple new tricks.'' Instead,...