Candi Carpenter’s new EP and short film, Reincarnation, has hard rocking beats over sermons of independent thinking. Their message is delivered with some anger sprinkled with humor. One minute I’m head banging against my car’s steering wheel and the next I’m on my knees with laughter at Candi’s outrageousness. Candi was raised religious but had…
Over the past few years, there’s been a lot of talk about AI in the music industry. However, what if it’s been around longer and is just letting itself be known now? Picture it, the late 1990’s, a young diva is just coming off a popular soap opera (Neighbours) and taking the world by storm…
I became a fan of Kathy Troccoli’s pop albums (Pure Attraction and self-titled) in the 90’s, but she mostly does Christian music now. It’s not my jam but I followed her career over the years, picking up her Christmas (A Sentimental Christmas) and covers (Heartsongs) albums along the way. In 2016, I saw her jazz standards…
In my gay opinion, Zee Machine might be a son of a Bee…a Bee Gee that is. Zee’s new EP Hymphomania Vol 1 has many high-pitched vocals over some old-school 80’s vibes. If all the Bee Gees were still alive and putting out music, this is the sound they would be going for. Modern rock…
What I like about Bonner Black is just how honest her songwriting is. Her new EP, Little Bird In A Big Sky, is musical storytelling at it’s best with a sound that is unlike anything else out there, strong vocals over a modern pop country-folkish vibe. Bonner reflects on her past (“Happy As We Were”),…
This past weekend my partner and I made an overnight trip to New York City for the sole purpose of seeing Cat Cohen’s off-Broadway show “Broad Strokes” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher St.) before it closes Sept 25th. The almost three hundred seat Lucille Lortel Theatre is within blocks of the historical Stonewall…
Every night I strip down to my skivvies, crawl into bed with my first love, and run my fingers up and down his spine. Obviously, I’m talking books, what else would you expect from someone who uses the word skivvies? It’s been a while since I’ve been this excited in bed (literarily speaking) thanks to…
What if the “Clueless” crew were less concerned about giving makeovers and more focused on surviving Coachella as cannibals? Or if the “Mean Girls” became zombies who just stepped off a Pride float? Then you’d have Kayla Cottingham’s book “This Delicious Death.” In my gay opinion, it’s a fun and unusual horror read, telling the…
Recently one of my friends suggested we go to New York City to see a show, usually he does the star-studded Tony Award winners (I don’t know who Tony is) but I prefer off, off Broadway’s indie vibe. He gives me a hard time about my taste so it was time to subject him to…
All I know about tennis is grunting people with rackets try to get a fuzzy yellow ball over a net until someone hits the net or the ball goes over the white line, then the court-side lifeguard in the tall chair tells you who won. I know historic players like Martina Navratilova and Billie Jean…
