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Hear Me Out: Best Albums of 2019
By Chris Azzopardi 10. Miranda Lambert, Wildcard After flooding a sublime double-disc album with her post-divorce feelings (hey, divorce is hard!), Miranda Lambert got her groove back and then finally
Hear Me Out
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6 Best Songs By Women in 2019
By Chris Azzopardi ‘Bring My Flowers Now,’ Tanya Tucker Country music legend Tanya Tucker’s elegiac coda from her first album in 10 years, “Bring My Flowers Now†off While I’m
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8 New Songs For Your Summer Playlist
By Chris Azzopardi Taylor Swift is a gay icon on the job! Céline Dion is flying! Katy Perry is not sexualizing buffets! And then, there’s MIKA, your “Ice Cream†man,
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Best Albums of 2018
By Chris Azzopardi 10. Jussie Smollett, Sum of My Music No way Empire star Jussie Smollett was about to let a label – in his case, not just any label
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7 Not-To-Be-Missed LGBTQ Artists
| Looking tosupport the sounds of our community? To start, add these acts to your gaylist By Chris Azzopardi MNEK You’ve heard English singer, songwriter and producer MNEK behind the
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7 Albums (Britney! Robyn!) that will make this year suck less
By Chris Azzopardi That Britney album better come quick – preferably before the world combusts from nuclear warfare. On the horizon for the rest of what’s shaping up to be
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The Best of 2017
By Chris Azzopardi Donald Trump is still tweeting (oh yeah, and somehow still president). Free internet porn could be a bygone luxury thanks to #RIPNetNeutrality. But hey, music in 2017
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9 acts to see during the next year’s very gay concert lineup
By Chris Azzopardi Welcome to the gayest concert year of your life. For instance, if all you want for Christmas is a healthy dose of divadom wrapped in high notes
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I Want To Be Heard in My Healthcare HIV activist shares journey as an individual instead of a risk pool statistic
By Josh Robbins “I want to be heard.†It is really as simple as that. I just want to be heard. More specifically, I want to be heard in my