Ben Folds, Rufus Wainwright, Guster

It’s impossible to escape politics in Washington, D.C., even miles outside the city limits—even in a leafy national park, even during a rock ’n’ roll show...  read more

20 Signs of Life From 2003

Consider for a moment the dizzying flood of pop albums that bombarded store shelves this past year, cast overboard from a bloated industry foundering by degrees in its own elaborate waste. Record execs looking for different folks who sound just like The Strokes, Chris Lord-Alge forever polishing the production on some label’s next titanic investment. Another year, another parade of musical cash cows regurgitating the same formulaic crud. We’ve heard it all before. And then, with Fall approaching, Rufus Wainwright arrives like a knight in shining armor (quite literally, if you check the album cover of his latest project, Want...  read more

Rufus Wainwright

It was an entrance worthy of Oscar Wilde himself. Two-and-a-half years ago, at the Los Angeles offices of his label DreamWorks, decadent dandy Rufus Wainwright came slinking in like a fox fresh out of the henhouse...  read more

Rufus Wainwright

` entrance worthy of Oscar Wilde himself. Two-and-a-half years ago, at the Los Angeles offices of his label DreamWorks, decadent dandy Rufus Wainwright came slinking in like a fox fresh out of the henhouse. In his chic Kenneth Coles, leather  read more