Music – Gaily dancing

Glam-drogynous Jeffree Star lives up to the title of his
sophomore release Beauty Killer (Popsicle) right from the start with the wham-bam slam of “Get Away with Murder.”
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Music – Dance feverish

More Kylie than Ke$ha, Little Boots (a.k.a. Victoria Hesketh) joins the dance-dance revolution led by Lady Gaga with her album Hands. Beginning with the funky strut of “New in Town,” Little Boots promises to take us out tonight and show us “a real good time,” and she delivers.
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Music – Getting down

After a decade of performing and songwriting, saxophonist Mindi Abair has stepped back into the so-called golden age of R&B, soul, and funk. The music, universally upbeat and screaming “shake your boogie til you drop,” is simple of purpose and even simpler of harmony, but it’s so much fun that it’s hard to resist getting up off the couch and dancing up a storm.
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DVD – Voice of greatness

Whether you think of her as “Sassy,” which she
certainly was, or “The Divine One,” which was true in virtually
everything she sang, the fabulous Sarah Vaughan (1924-90) ranks as one of the finest jazz artists America has ever produced. (read more)

Tubesteak Connection’s 9th!
Two Dudes in Love! Double Dutchess!

All the horrible tragic news of the past few days might make some of us want to hole up at home and binge on bacon ice cream and RuPaul’s Drag Race episodes. But never fear, otherwise the whackjob terrorists will win! Celebrate life! Go out dancing!

Music: Heavy Liquid

Kent James, who long ago abandoned the punk mohawk, as well as a previous Country-Western persona, seems comfortable in simple garage mechanic duds as the front man for a thudding, loud and deliciously authentic rock and roll band that plays music without politics.

Music: Shawna Virago

There’s no mistaking that many of the themes in local transgender singer Shawna Virago’s CD Objectified are autobiographical. The lead lyric in three of the CD’s songs, “Objectified,” “Transsexual Dominatrix” and “Butterfly” is the word “I.”

Fired Up: Scissors Sisters’ Night Work

When it comes to “gay music,” who better to support than the rainbowlicious Scissor Sisters? Their new album, Night Work, is said by lead singer-composer Jake Shears to have evolved into a musical statement on what our world would be like if AIDS never happened.

In Country: Chely Wright

by Jim Provenzano
Growing up in a small Ohio town, the local country music station’s antenna interfered with reception for the Cleveland rock station, WMMS. The farm boys and “proud rednecks” I grew up with for the most part maintained a polite dis- tance from the artsy types like myself, except when I actually worked [...]

Andy Gram:
Can’t Stop Now

This is supposed to be where I only review Non-Stop, Andy Bell’s terrific new solo CD, but we ran out of space for a blathering editorial, so I’ll be succinct.
Non-Stop will be released on June 7 on CD and via download and features the singles “Running Out,” “Will You Be There?” and “Call On [...]


 

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