Hear Me Out: Lea Michele, Amy Ray
Lea Michele, 'Louder' The business of turning a theater-born star into a bona fide pop act isn't as easy as it looks, and Lea Michele knows this from seeing [...]
Hear Me Out: Against Me!, Toni Braxton and Babyface
Against Me!, 'Transgender Dysphoria Blues' The remarkable thing about "Transgender Dysphoria Blues" – besides, of course, it being an emancipating [...]
Hear Me Out: Jennifer Holliday, A Great Big World
Jennifer Holliday, 'The Song Is You' Jennifer Holliday is not going. And even though it's been 23 years since the Grammy winner - the original Effie in [...]
We're Here, We're Queer - Now Where's The Beer?
By Shelby Clark Nothing chases away a winter chill like a pint of beer. Wine, mead and hard cider can be equally appealing after a day spent shoveling [...]
Hear Me Out: Beyoncé, Jennifer Nettles
Beyoncé, 'Beyoncé' It's a new year, but we're not done gushing over Beyoncé and that juggernaut of an album she surprise-dropped to a web blitz of [...]
Lady Gaga Adds Detroit To Tour, Makes Michigan Gays Really Happy
Following sell-outs of the first set of concerts for "artRAVE: The ARTPOP Ball," Live Nation Global Touring confirmed today that Gaga has added a Detroit show [...]
Hear Me Out: Top 10 of '13
10. Arcade Fire, 'Reflektor' Winning the big daddy of Grammys for "The Suburbs" didn't just change Arcade Fire's career - an Album of the Year trophy will do [...]
Hear Me Out ... For The Holidays
Kelly Clarkson, 'Wrapped in Red' In 1963, background-singer-turned-soloist Darlene Love got with big-time producer Phil Spector to turn out the December [...]
Hear Me Out: Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire
Lady Gaga, 'ARTPOP' So much for that high-concept, post-modern ingenuity that "ARTPOP" promised even before Lady Gaga hawked it as the album of not the year, [...]
Hear Me Out: Celine Dion, Katy Perry
Celine Dion, 'Loved Me Back to Life' To have the glass-shattering lung power that Celine Dion has built an empire of love songs on in the last 20-some years [...]
The Truth About Pink's Tour: It's Amazing
Photo by Chris Azzopardi All you pop stars out there, go home. You've been served by Pink, who raised the bar for arena spectacles during her second show this [...]
Hear Me Out: Miley Cyrus, Haim
Miley Cyrus, 'Bangerz' Goodbye, Hannah Montana; hello tongue-wagging, midriff-baring Miley Cyrus. Slipping out of her child-star skin, the infamous twerker [...]
