Sound On: The Best Albums of June 2019
Welcome to Sound On, where we’ll highlight the albums and songs that you should know about each month—from the hits that landed to the tracks you might have missed. We’ll even tell you which moods each album evokes, so you know just when to turn them on to maximize their effects. Happy listening. Who: Are…
Madonna closes out WorldPride with massive concert at ‘Pride Island’
The city’s record-breaking WorldPride celebration was capped off Sunday night with a blockbuster performance by the Material Girl. “This is my gay rite of passage,” wrote one Madonna fan on Twitter, who attended the event. “We’ve been ready for this for nearly 30 years,” another said, sharing footage of himself as a kid dancing to the…
Madonna thanks LGBTQ community in moving speech to close World Pride
‘I always felt like an outsider but you made me feel like an insider,’ said Madonna at World Pride performance in New York City Madonna rounded off World Pride celebrations in New York with a performance at the festival’s ‘Pride Island’ on Manhattan’s Pier 57. The iconic singer’s performance was one of the most anticipated events of…
Madonna performs onstage during Pride Island (press images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 30: Madonna performs onstage during Pride Island – WorldPride NYC 2019 at Pier 97 on June 30, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Pride Island) Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty…
Madonna Closes World Pride With Message About Gun Violence in America
“Fifty years, people,” Madonna ad-libbed on Sunday night in Manhattan to a crowd of 7,000 rapturous, mostly shirtless fans. The setting for this 30-minute concert? River Island stage on Pier 97 in Manhattan, better known as “Pride Island.” Madonna’s performance of four songs closed a week of festivities for World Pride, which included the June 28…
‘Madame X’ album review: Madonna holds out for optimism
The singer’s new album can be considered her boldest act of defiance Image Credit: Frankly, Madonna didn’t need to create ‘Madame X’, not for relevance, not for the tours and 360 branding opportunities that she invented. When people want Madonna to sip chamomile tea and calm down, this act of creation is her boldest act…
Sunday Sounds: The Many Excellent Drummers On Madonna’s ‘True Blue’
On June 30, 1986, Madonna released her third studio album True Blue. Madonna cowrote and coproduced the entire album with Stephen Bray and Patrick Leonard, who also played drums with her on the record along with Jonathan “Sugarfoot” Moffett (pictured above). Many posit that True Blue was the album that launched Madonna to superstardom, and…
Decoding Madonna’s Disturbing “God Control” Video
Violence has been a surprisingly consistent theme throughout Madonna’s music video canon, from “Like a Prayer” to “What It Feels like for a Girl” to, most recently, “Dark Ballet,” in which Mykki Blanco is burned at the stake. But the video for “God Control,” from her latest album, Madame X, is shockingly graphic in its depiction of gun…