Daily entertainment news covering Rufus Wainwright en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 http://www.starpulse.com/ http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/09/23/exclusive_stream_rufus_wainwright_s_enti Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:00:00 EST Entertainment News 138537@http://www.starpulse.com/news
Affectionately referred to by Elton John as "the greatest songwriter on the planet" and praised by The New York Times for his "genuine originality," Rufus Wainwright has established himself as one of the great male vocalists

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/05/24/a_fine_frenzy_s_bomb_in_a_birdcage_turns_9 Sun, 24 May 2009 18:00:00 EST Entertainment News 123742@http://www.starpulse.com/news On September 8, 2009, A Fine Frenzy—led by Alison Sudol—will release Bomb in a Birdcage on Virgin Records, the follow-up to 2007’s critically acclaimed One Cell in the Sea. While the debut

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/12/15/rufus_wainwright_doesn_t_support_gay_mar Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:36:14 EST Entertainment News 106118@http://www.starpulse.com/news Gay singer Rufus Wainwright refuses to join the campaign to allow same-sex unions, insisting he has no interest in marrying.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/09/22/paul_mccartney_loves_duffy_cover Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:00:00 EST Entertainment News 98778@http://www.starpulse.com/news Singer Duffy has recorded a version of Paul McCartney's classic song "Live And Let Die" for charity - and the Beatles legend is astonished with the result. The Welsh songstress tackled the hit Bond theme

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/08/30/rufus_wainwright_s_opera_shelved Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:30:00 EST Entertainment News 96938@http://www.starpulse.com/news Singer/Songwriter Rufus Wainwright's opera debut has been shelved after a falling out between him and the Metropolitan Opera. The Canadian had been commissioned to compose and write an opera for the Met,

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/08/28/dido_set_to_release_new_album_safe_trip__4 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:15:28 EST Entertainment News 96774@http://www.starpulse.com/news The new album from Dido, Safe Trip Home will be released by the RCA Label Group on November 4, 2008. Recorded in Los Angeles and London,

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/07/22/celebrity_birthdays_july_84 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:00:00 EST Entertainment News 86801@http://www.starpulse.com/news Happy Birthday to Belgian singer Kate Ryan (1980), "Run Lola Run" actress Franka Potente (1974), singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright (1973), "Joe Dirt" star David Spade (1964), "Moulin Rouge" actor John Leguizamo (1964),

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/04/28/brothers_aamp_sisters_aamp_ugly_betty_re Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:35:01 EST Entertainment News 85673@http://www.starpulse.com/news Hit TV shows Brothers & Sisters and Ugly Betty repeated their success at the 2008 Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards on Saturday by scooping the same top awards as last year.

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/04/16/on_the_road_again_music_to_make_the_trip Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:38:52 EST Entertainment News 84549@http://www.starpulse.com/news Imagine driving across the country with nothing but the great open road in your future. Going through barely-there towns and the desert, the road is full of possibilities (as well as seedy hotels and exorbitant gas prices). What makes the drive go by quicker? Music.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/04/10/new_live_cd_dvd_from_the_gossip_live_in__15 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:00:01 EST Entertainment News 83924@http://www.starpulse.com/news Recorded live in concert on July 9, 2007, Gossip - Live In Liverpool brilliantly captures and focuses the stunning ferocity, energy and intensity at the heart of Gossip's groundbreaking meld of sound and politics.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/04/01/a_starpulse_writer_reveals_what_s_on_my_ Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:57:34 EST Entertainment News 82905@http://www.starpulse.com/news This time of year is consumed with unanswered questions in a myriad of fields. Who will be the Democratic nominee? Who will win the NBA's MVP award? When will The Office come back? I feel that it is my duty to put at least one national existential crisis at rest - what am I listening to these days on my iPod.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/03/24/check_out_a_fine_frenzy_s_new_video_for_ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:30:00 EST Entertainment News 82064@http://www.starpulse.com/news Alison Sudol inhabits a vivid imaginary world populated by siren songs and sailors, sightless creatures and fragile fallen eagles, a place where almost lovers and hopeless dreams are bid a melancholy musical farewell.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/02/20/stars_celebrate_yoko_ono_s_birthday Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:13:26 EST Entertainment News 78556@http://www.starpulse.com/news Rockers David Byrne, The Strokes and Rufus Wainwright helped Yoko Ono celebrate her 75th birthday on Monday night at a party in New York. Sean Lennon, Ono's son with late Beatle John Lennon, organized the event at Joe's Pub.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/01/21/a_cavalcade_of_stars_up_for_glaad_awards Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:20:06 EST Entertainment News 75030@http://www.starpulse.com/news Stardust, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters and Ugly Betty are among the nominees for the 2008 Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Awards.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/01/10/pop_rock_dynamo_katy_perry_signs_with_ca Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:00:00 EST Entertainment News 73851@http://www.starpulse.com/news Capitol Music Group will release a digital EP from pop-rock songstress Katy Perry - entitled Ur So Gay - through iTunes and other online retailers on November 20th, 2007.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/09/21/baby_rufus_wainwright_was_likened_to_a_h Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:10:41 EST Entertainment News 60901@http://www.starpulse.com/news Singer Rufus Wainwright was devastated when his mother compared him to a large ham. The star - whose younger sister is fellow musician Martha Wainwright - was surprised to hear him likened to the pork product after his mother described her daughter's birth in more romantic terms.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/09/10/rufus_wainwright_dismisses_reports_of_re Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:30:25 EST Entertainment News 59306@http://www.starpulse.com/news American singer Rufus Wainwright has denied rumours he is planning to retire from pop music. Reports claimed the 34-year-old would quit his pop roots after he was commissioned by New York's Metropolitan Opera to create a show called Prima Donna.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/09/03/heart_s_ann_wilson_to_release_first_solo_11 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:00:00 EST Entertainment News 58129@http://www.starpulse.com/news Heart singer Ann Wilson has recorded her first-ever solo effort Hope & Glory, due September 11th on Zoë/ Rounder Records. The arresting vocalist branches out with a socially conscious and thought-provoking album of songs she selected to inspire the appropriately titled Hope & Glory.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/07/31/meg_aamp_dia_on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:00:00 EST Entertainment News 53894@http://www.starpulse.com/news Meg & Dia, the power-alt pop band consisting of sisters from Draper, Utah, Meg (guitar, vocals) and Dia Frampton (lead vocal), Nick Price (drums), Carlo Gimenez (guitar), Jonathan Snyder (bass), have signed with Warner Bros. Records and are currently rocking out on the Volcom stage of this summer's Warped Tour promoting their latest indie release, Something Real, in stores now.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/07/22/celebrity_birthdays_july_54 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:00:00 EST Entertainment News 46689@http://www.starpulse.com/news Happy Birthday to Belgian singer Kate Ryan (1980), "Run Lola Run" actress Franka Potente (1974), singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright (1973), WWE star Shawn Michaels (1965), "Joe Dirt" star David Spade (1964), "Moulin Rouge" actor John Leguizamo (1964), R&B singer Keith Sweat (1961), Savatage singer/Trans Siberian Orchestra composer Jon Oliva (1960), guitarist Al Di Meola (1954), Eagles drummer/singer Don Henley (1947), "Lethal Weapon" actor Danny Glover (1947), "The Muse" star Albert Brooks (1947), Supertramp keyboardist Rick Davies (1944), Ronettes singer Estelle Bennett (1944), funkmaster George Clinton (1941), Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek (1940), "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" actress Louise Fletcher (1934), US Senator Bob Dole (1923), English film director James Whale (1893; d. 1957), and painter Edward Hopper (1882; d. 1967).

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/25/rufus_wainwright_blasts_beyonce Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:30:00 EST Entertainment News 48756@http://www.starpulse.com/news Gay pop icon Rufus Wainwright has attacked Beyonce Knowles for force-feeding music fans meaningless and "formulaic" hits. The cult singer identifies Knowles among the worst performers currently making hit singles because not enough thought goes into her R&B songs.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/24/notable_quotables_127 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:00:00 EST Entertainment News 48545@http://www.starpulse.com/news "Both sides of my family are all in Mensa. It skipped me." Pamela Anderson misses out on her family's supersmart genes. "I thought, 'Wow, what's wrong with me? Do I look fat?" Supermodel Rachel Hunter became paranoid about her weight after she was asked to promote weight-loss product SlimFast.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/24/rufus_wainwright_s_swipe_at_america Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:00:00 EST Entertainment News 48524@http://www.starpulse.com/news American singer Rufus Wainwright couldn't resist having a swipe at America when he appeared at the Glastonbury festival last night - he wore black stripes to represent all that is bad in the country. The folk star performed during yesterday's musical event in England wearing a black striped shirt and a red striped jacket.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/23/heart_singer_ann_wilson_calls_in_heavywe Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:30:00 EST Entertainment News 48494@http://www.starpulse.com/news Heart star Ann Wilson has recruited Elton John, Rufus Wainwright, Gretchen Wilson and sister Nancy to guest on her first solo album Hope & Glory. The album, which will be released in September, will feature Alone singer Wilson's renditions of songs by Pink Floyd, John Lennon and Led Zeppelin.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/21/rufus_wainwright_thought_he_had_hiv_afte Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:00:53 EST Entertainment News 48245@http://www.starpulse.com/news Gay folk singer Rufus Wainwright feared he had contracted HIV when he was raped as a teenager. The singer/songwriter was attacked by a man he picked up in a bar in London's Hyde Park at the age of 14.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/19/notable_quotables_123 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:21:50 EST Entertainment News 47804@http://www.starpulse.com/news "I was a really toe-tappin', tap-dancin' gay toddler. I daydreamed about being in 'That's Entertainment' with Judy Garland or a swimming routine with Esther Williams." Singer Rufus Wainwright can trace his gay roots right back to his days as a youngster.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/14/fascinating_facts_58 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:00:00 EST Entertainment News 47203@http://www.starpulse.com/news 24 star Kiefer Sutherland will make a speech on stage at the memorial concert for late British royal Diana, Princess Of Wales at Wembley Stadium on July 1.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/09/a_fine_frenzy_confirmed_to_tour_with_ruf Sat, 09 Jun 2007 14:00:00 EST Entertainment News 45996@http://www.starpulse.com/news Virgin Records' newest sensation, A Fine Frenzy, has just been confirmed to open for some of today's top artist/songwriters - Rufus Wainwright, Magic Numbers, Neko Case and Sean Lennon - in advance of her major label debut. "One Cell In The Sea", set to hit the streets on July 17, has already peaked the interest and excitement of celebrities and writers everywhere.

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