Tag Archives: gay artists

New music from the strange Kansas City dance/punk collective Ssion. I don’t know what this is, but I like it.

A special EP of kd lang’s Olympics opening ceremony performance of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah is now on sale on iTunes. The clip below is audio only.

“I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don’t know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East — you’re as good as dead.” – Elton John, speaking to Parade …

Here’s the new single from Bitch, from her upcoming album Blasted! I think she used be described as “queercore” back when the act was Bitch & Animal, but I don’t what this is. Catchy, though. NSFW due to naughty words.

Here’s a couple of smooth and lovely dance remixes of Matt Alber’s now classic gay love song End Of The World, which so many of you plotzed over when I posted it in January 2009. Alber re-recorded the vocals for these two mixes, which are available on iTunes. I can’t decide which I like better.

Here’s the trailer for Pet Shop Boys’ coming concert DVD, Pandemonium, which comes out in the U.S. on March 23rd.

Here’s a track from SF Bay Area art rockers Xiu Xiu, from their forthcoming album Dear God, I Hate Myself, which is out on Feb. 22nd. Very 80s college radio.

Shocking news. Wildly popular fashion designer Alexander McQueen has committed suicide. British fashion designer Alexander McQueen has been found dead after taking his own life. The 40-year-old committed suicide just days after the death of his mother, Joyce. His death also comes just three years after his close friend, Isabella Blow – who plucked him from obscurity and helped him …

From the new album Realism, which came out last week. I had a hard time choosing between this and You Must Be Out Of Your Mind, which seems to be the cut being promoted. The Magnetic Fields’ ten date U.S. tour begins later this month. In NYC they play Town Hall on March 10th-12th.

Bearapalooza 2010 takes place in southern Georgia on the weekend of April 15-18th. Performers include Freddy Freeman, Kendall, Elijah Black, Roger Mapes, Martin Swinger, Rockcub, Don Harvey, Charles K. Brown, Jeffrey Altergott, Michael West, and others. RELATED: International Bear Rendezvous runs February 11th-15th in San Francisco. ALSO RELATED: The 10th annual Provincetown Bear Week runs July 10th-18th and we’re hearing …

Via The New Gay, singer/songwriters Matt Alber and Tom Goss sing This Is Who We Are, which is in “dedication to any service member that has been discharged for who they are.”

“Can you believe how big this thing has gotten?” – Broadway and 30 Rock star Cheyenne Jackson, speaking to Neil Patrick Harris while both were in their underwear in their gym’s locker room. Go to After Elton for context and the full interview where Jackson also talks about his onscreen romance with 30 Rock’s Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) and what …

Legendary former Husker Du and Sugar frontman (and Blowoff DJ/creator) Bob Mould is playing two live shows in NYC this weekend at City Winery in Soho. Former Posies frontman Jon Auer is Bob’s special guest for both shows. Get tickets here. You can listen to Bob performing live right now on WNYC.

Two hot new singles from gay artists are out this week. First, Blowoff DJ and remix king Rich Morel has just released his take on Alan Cumming’s Next To Me, which is from Cumming’s new album, I Bought A Blue Car Today. Now available on iTunes. Another typically fantastic Pink Noise Mix from Rich. And B-52s frontman Fred Schneider has …

Towleroad tips us to this clip of Adam Lambert’s performance on Oprah today. After all that AMA nonsense, Lambert has been rather ubiquitous on daytime television for the last couple of weeks.

Carolyn Castiglia aka Miss CKC joins up with Shawn Hollenbach and Soce the Elemental Wizard for a musical primer on the proper way to create a Manhunt profile. (I think I once did a show with Soce (the guy with the beard) back when I was doing that sort of thing.) Builds nicely, I’ll probably be singing the chorus for …

Friday-Sunday this weekend in NYC the 12th annual Postcards From The Edge benefit for Visual AIDS will take place in West Chelsea. Postcards From the Edge is a Visual AIDS benefit show and sale of original, postcard-sized works on paper by established and emerging artists. All works are sold on a first-come, first-served basis. The works are signed on the …

Those of you who didn’t care for Kevin Aviance’s cover of Britney Spear’s Gimme More might enjoy this downtempo take by openly gay singer Christopher Dallman, who wrote yesterday to tip us to his Sad Britney EP, now available on iTunes.

Via producers Jonny “The Gay Pimp” McGovern and Adam Joseph comes this Kevin Aviance cover of Britney Spears’ Gimme More. To date, Aviance has scored five #1 hits on Billboard’s dance chart. Aviance has bounded back from his brutal 2006 gay bashing in NYC, after which all four of his cowardly assailants received prison sentences of up to 15 years.