May 2011
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Sia announces Tour "We Are Born" w/ special guest...
7/21 - minneapolis, mn @ first avenue
7/22 - chicago, il @ metro
7/23 - detroit, mi @ st. andrews hall
7/24 - toronto, ont @ phoenix concert theatre
7/26 - new york, ny @ webster hall
7/27 - new york, ny @ webster hall
7/28 - washington, dc @ 9:30 club
7/30 - montreal, qc @ osheaga festival musique et arts
7/31 - boston, ma @ house of blues
8/01 - philadelphia, pa @ the trocadero
8/03 -...
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Reminder: Tonight @ 9pm (EST) - Listen to HomoGround on Out Impact Radio....
– Listen to the episode here; http://homoground.com/
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Miranda July, the dreamer by Venus Zine →
The performer-filmmaker-writer emerged out of the West Coast punk scene in the late 1990s, singing with indie-rock faves the Need and directing the much-loved video for Sleater-Kinney’s “Get Up” in 1999.
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Stephin Merritt 'Keep its Real' by The Advocate →
Stephin Merritt, the lead singer of the critically lauded group the Magnetic Fields, is one of the few openly gay artists in today’s music world.
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Pick Up the Mic →
is a documentary about the underground LGBT hip hop scene. And available to watch the whole documentary on Hulu.
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The Secert Life of Dusty Springfield by The... →
by Michele Kort; this article appeared in April 1999 issue of the Advocate shortly after Dusty Springfield’s death in March 1999.
“Potent proof of how hard it was to live a gay life during Dusty’s heyday is the fact that although several of her female lovers talked to us for this article, only one allowed herself to be named. Those who loved Dusty grew up, as she did, in a...
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Hercules & Love Affair “Blind” Hercules & Love Affair 2008 DFA Records
The band features Andrew Bulter, Kim Ann Foxman, Mark Pistel, Aerea Negrot and Shaun Wright. Blind was co-written by Antony Hegarty and Andrew Bulter. It began as a poem by Bulter before finished and recorded by Hegarty. The single was considered one of the best songs of 2008.
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perpetua:
Owen Pallett “Midnight Directives” Live for Yours Truly, 2011 This is a brilliant composition, the sort of piece that is urgent in tone, yet reveals itself upon repeated listening. The melody swoops and soars, but its a rather chilly sort of bombast — it’s a drama of intense thought, not physicality. I find myself often rewinding and going back over that final climax in the vocal...
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Tegan and Sara “Feel it in My Bones” Kaleidoscope 2009 Musical Freedom
Feel it in My Bones was one of the two songs released on Tiesto’s Kaleidoscope featuring Tegan and Sara. In 2008 Tegan and Sara had a chance to perform with Tiesto during the Bonnaroo Festival, which turned around and started their collaboration on his album.