Chris Azzopardi
Hear Me Out: Vampire Weekend, The Great Gatsby
Vampire Weekend, 'Modern Vampires of the City' Vampire Weekend puts down the horchata and ponders death without religion and this misguided generation for their junior disc "Modern Vampires of the City." The affable NYC hip-popsters grow out of [...]
John Grant's Tell-All Interview On HIV, Addiction & Revealing New Album
John Grant's head is like a prison, and inside are words waiting to get out. These words flood the melodies of the songs on his second LP, the critically praised "Pale Green Ghosts," and they also free-flow in conversation like he's been wanting to [...]
Screen Queen: The Guilt Trip, Funny Girl
The Guilt Trip Playing down the divadom, Barbra Streisand masticates a mammoth steak and wears mom jeans for her first leading-actress role since 1996's "The Mirror Has Two Faces." Babs nags, dotes and hilariously attempts hipness as Joyce [...]
Sex, Love & Liberace
Steven Soderbergh knows who's significantly responsible for the major success of his male-stripper romp "Magic Mike": gay men eager to ogle the barely-covered bits of Channing Tatum and his hunky posse. The Oscar-winning director's upcoming feature [...]
Natalie Maines Q&A On 'Fake' Country Music, Lesbian Hair & Not Making Nice
To quote a Dixie Chicks song, fearless frontwoman Natalie Maines has "been a longtime gone." Seven years after one of the most successful country music acts released "Taking the Long Way," and its unapologetic single "Not Ready to Make Nice" in [...]
Hear Me Out: Patty Griffin, Amy Grant
Patty Griffin, 'American Kid' Ever since her rootsy 1996 debut "Living with Ghosts," Patty Griffin has found inspiration in the deep, dark corners of life. Written in the midst of her father's death, "American Kid" serves to honor him in the best [...]
Steven Soderbergh Q&A On Liberace Biopic, Matt Damon's Butt & 'Magic Mike 2' Being 'Far Along'
Steven Soderbergh knows who's significantly responsible for the major success of his male-stripper romp "Magic Mike": gay men eager to ogle the barely-covered bits of Channing Tatum and his hunky posse. The Oscar-winning director's upcoming feature [...]
Hear Me Out: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gin Wigmore
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 'Mosquito' Karen O and Co., the New York alt-rock trio widely known as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, went neon for "It's Blitz!," a staggering best-of-2009 creation that pulsed with dance-floor fever and, as promised, got heads rolling. [...]
Living In Style
So often a dream house is just that - a dream. But for Royal Oak couple Michael "Chet" Chetcuti and Kyle Evans, they didn't just imagine parking a vintage car in the living room or consider a kitchen big enough for a 20-person cooking party. They [...]
On Interviewing Amy ... And Why It Almost Didn't Happen
Amy Grant with BTL Entertainment Editor Chris Azzopardi. Back in the mid-'90s, I watched from my seat at The Palace of Auburn Hills, just outside Detroit, as kids circled Amy Grant onstage with overzealous glee while she sang "Say You'll Be Mine." I [...]
Amy Grant In Her First LGBTQ+ Press Interview (Exclusive)
A call from Amy Grant started as these promo chats usually do. Hellos were exchanged, small talk was made and questions about her first studio album of all-new material in 10 years, "How Mercy Looks From Here" (out May 14), were answered. Then we [...]
Olly Murs Q&A On Gay Rumors, Stripping & Kate Beckinsale Threesome
Olly Murs isn't your average straight dude. The U.K. "X Factor" alum, who recently released his proper stateside debut "Right Place Right Time," has stripped down to a thong for an all-queer crowd, championed games of gay chicken and been on the [...]