‘People’ Archives
Sarah McLachlan chats about Lilith, her long-awaited album, gay rights and her own sexual healing
Sarah McLachlan’s Re-Surfacing Seven years after her last studio album, the pop pianist returns with Lilith, new music and her own sexual healing “Loving You is Easy” isn’t just Sarah McLachlan’s long-awaited single from her first all-original studio album in seven years. It’s also what many of the fans she’s courted – and [...]
Hunter Valentine, Toni Braxton, Natalie Merchant
Hunter Valentine, Lessons From the Late Night Hunter Valentine play tough, but underneath the rowdy rock spasms of the all-lesbian band’s music lies heartbreak and relationship woes. The Toronto threesome’s second CD – the follow-up to their first full-length released in 2007 – is impressive, embracing the quality-over-quantity adage at [...]
Fighting homophobia around the sports world
Justin Fashanu is known for several things. In 1981 he became Britain’s first million-pound black soccer player. In 1990 he became the first professional soccer player to come out as gay. And in 1998 he killed himself. In 2010, English soccer is filled with black stars. But Justin Fashanu stands alone as “the gay professional.” Little has [...]
Country’s new queer-loving queen Laura Bell Bundy on her gay Broadway roots, new album and working with Britney
Omigod, you guys: Laura Bell Bundy is, like, totally cool with you! That she has a country album out in a genre that has often been known for being conservative and not so vocal on queer issues doesn’t mean the Kentucky cutie won’t be. She had a gay following long before her debut with a bangin’ Broadway career, playing roles in Legally [...]
Melissa Etheridge, Erykah Badu
Melissa Etheridge, Fearless Love Rockin’ riffs, soaring runs and that unbreakable soul that even cancer couldn’t stop – Melissa Etheridge welcomes back the slamming sound that made her a rock goddess. Tweaked, though, with some modern U2 siren-like guitars, notably on the wailing power-anthem “Fearless Love,” her 11th album is as ’90s [...]
The Runaways’ Cherie Currie talks about sex in the ’70s, new memoir and the movie based on it
Never did Cherie Currie think her life – the drugs, drama and debauchery – would be part of a movie. She still can't believe it. But as Currie tells us from a Michigan hotel suite how unfathomable it is that Dakota Fanning portrays the lead singer of the all-chick band The Runaways in the eponymous biopic, there's also a sense of relief that [...]
Melissa Etheridge: Fierce and ‘Fearless’
If Melissa Etheridge’s music has seemed mellow lately, she’s about to show you. Back to her rock-out roots, the tough-and-gruff musician/mother/activist makes a roaring return with the uplifting Fearless Love, her follow-up to 2007’s sociopolitical-powered The Awakening. We spoke with Etheridge, who not only discussed surviving cancer [...]
JĂłnsi, Bitch
Jónsi, Go You won’t understand much of what Jónsi Birgisson, the gay bandleader of Icelandic post-rock group Sigur Rós, sings on his solo outing. But here’s the gist of it: Life is beautiful. Live it. Feel it. Make out. All that credo is fed into the invigorating and cartoony “Animal Arithmetic,” a stream-of-consciousness musing [...]
Goldfrapp, Woodpigeon
Goldfrapp, Head First Remember how desperately you wanted to get your Supernature-style groove on during the release of the British duo’s 2008 dance-ditching release, Seventh Tree? Now you can. Whimsical introspectiveness takes a zippy ride on the ABBA rocket, soaring through a cosmic heaven that’s about as blissful and levitating as a sugar [...]
Little Boots, k.d. lang
Little Boots, Hands Good pop doesn’t work too hard. So luckily, few beads of sweat trickle from the electro shimmer of Victoria “Little Boots” Hesketh’s much-anticipated stateside landing. Odds are, however, that you already knew the darling musician, who dropped an EP last year, when she was still a self-made YouTube sensation performing [...]
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