Amy Ray
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‘Be the Example’: Melissa Etheridge on Touring with the Indigo Girls, Activism and Her No 'Fs to Give' Mentality
To quote Melissa Etheridge, ain’t it heavy? For some perspective on recent assaults on LGBTQ+ rights brought by the Trump administration, turning to a gay icon [...]Read more about ‘Be the Example’: Melissa Etheridge on Touring with the Indigo Girls, Activism and Her No 'Fs to Give' Mentality
Get Tickets for Melissa Etheridge and Indigo Girls, Go to TranscenDANCE, Celebrate 'The Golden Girls'
After all the ups and downs of 2024, you deserve to start off 2025 right. So, it’s a good thing that the darkest weeks of winter are loaded with LGBTQ+ events [...]Read more about Get Tickets for Melissa Etheridge and Indigo Girls, Go to TranscenDANCE, Celebrate 'The Golden Girls'
Just How Gay Is "Barbie"? It Depends on Who You Ask.
Let's face it: "Barbie" was going to be gay. Maybe not gay enough, according to some gays. Maybe too gay, according to anti-gays.The fact is, [...]Read more about Just How Gay Is "Barbie"? It Depends on Who You Ask.
Q&A: Indigo Girls on Pandemic Life, Trump-Era Inequality & How Pride Can Help Heal Country's Divisions
The day before I got on a call with Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, famously known as the Indigo Girls, the longtime folk-rock duo and LGBTQ activists were playing [...]Read more about Q&A: Indigo Girls on Pandemic Life, Trump-Era Inequality & How Pride Can Help Heal Country's Divisions
Indigo Girls' Emily Saliers Talks Empathy, Creativity and New Projects
Few artist are willing to take on topics as complex as the prison industrial complex, painkiller addiction and faith — let alone on one album — but the Indigo [...]Read more about Indigo Girls' Emily Saliers Talks Empathy, Creativity and New Projects
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Hear Me OUT May, 2005
Superstars: #1 Hits Remixed (SONY BMG Strategic Marketing Group) I'll admit it. I love this album. I dare you to listen to it without smiling and dancing. [...]Read more about Hear Me OUT May, 2005
July 2006 highlights
She/he Said “You weasel your way out of it while trying not to be offensive. If that had been my inclination, I could’ve been a great trophy boyfriend. A kept [...]Read more about July 2006 highlights
Q&A: Indigo Girls Talk 'Fearful' Coming Out, Why Artists Should 'Be Brave' & How Art Will Change Us During Trump
Photo: Jeremy Cowart Marriage equality was a mere pipe dream when Indigo Girls duo Emily Saliers and Amy Ray came out in 1988, coinciding with the release of [...]Read more about Q&A: Indigo Girls Talk 'Fearful' Coming Out, Why Artists Should 'Be Brave' & How Art Will Change Us During Trump
Celebrate 40 Years of Folk Music
BY BTL STAFF Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers will perform at the 40th Annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival on Jan. 28 at the Hill Auditorium. Photo courtesy [...]Read more about Celebrate 40 Years of Folk Music
Lesbian Icons Light Up Ann Arbor
Ever since the Indigo Girls debuted their indie release "Strange Fire" in 1987, legendary duo Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have been the standard bearers of [...]Read more about Lesbian Icons Light Up Ann Arbor
Hear Me Out: Lea Michele, Amy Ray
Lea Michele, 'Louder' The business of turning a theater-born star into a bona fide pop act isn't as easy as it looks, and Lea Michele knows this from seeing [...]Read more about Hear Me Out: Lea Michele, Amy Ray
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Ray of light
By Andrea Poteet On her sixth solo album, "Lung of Love," Amy Ray takes listeners to church with confessional lyrics about faith, life and love in her honest, [...]Read more about Ray of light
Hear Me Out: Sinead O'Connor's first album in five years
Sinead O'Connor, 'How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?' Does nothing compare to Sinead O'Connor? On her ninth album, and first since the Irish self-proclaimed [...]Read more about Hear Me Out: Sinead O'Connor's first album in five years
Hear Me Out: Björk's weirdly wonderful return, 'Biophilia'
Björk, 'Biophilia' Breaking down Björk isn't easy. The Icelandic dancer in the dark's unpredictable output, ever since 1993's electro-pop "Debut," has been [...]Read more about Hear Me Out: Björk's weirdly wonderful return, 'Biophilia'
Hear Me Out... for the Holidays: Mariah's holiday spirit carries sequel. Plus: Indigo Girls and 'Glee'
Mariah Carey, 'Merry Christmas II You' Sequels usually suck, but Mariah Carey's not going down with that sleigh on her cleverly titled offshoot to her "Merry [...]Read more about Hear Me Out... for the Holidays: Mariah's holiday spirit carries sequel. Plus: Indigo Girls and 'Glee'
Being Brandi
Brandi Carlile is a lesbian, but no one cares. Not even, as it turns out, the gay rags who typically would, or should, be all over someone of her caliber: a [...]Read more about Being Brandi
It Takes Two
What a ride it's been for Nervous But Excited. Not just the one where the folk duo open for Ani DiFranco and become the only local band to play the 2010 Ann [...]Read more about It Takes Two
Give into the 'Ghost'
Brandi Carlile: God's gift to music. While fawning over Brandi Carlile as she mesmerized and melted a packed crowd to the core in Detroit nearly two years ago, [...]Read more about Give into the 'Ghost'
Getting the 'bug' back
By Gregg Shapiro Indigo Girls fans who have been waiting longer than usual for the out-duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers will find their patience rewarded with [...]Read more about Getting the 'bug' back
Hear Me Out
Indigo Girls, 'Poseidon and the Bitter Bug' Even with some solid solo projects, there's still nothing quite like Emily Saliers and Amy Ray: The Lesbian [...]Read more about Hear Me Out
BTL chats with Amy Ray
Sure, she's currently touring with Indigo Girls' other half, Emily Saliers. But Amy Ray spent much of the past year working on and promoting her third solo [...]Read more about BTL chats with Amy Ray
Hear Me Out
JC Chasez – Schizophrenic (Jive) Although he's no Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez proves with "Schizophrenic" that N'Sync was not a one-man operation. [...]Read more about Hear Me Out
Despite differences, Indigo Girls find their way
By Jillian Bogater Review "Despite Our Differences" Indigo Girls Hollywood Records In stores now In concert Oct. 20 Michigan Theater Ann Arbor After two [...]Read more about Despite differences, Indigo Girls find their way
Queer musical group bends genders
Girlyman When: 7:30 p.m. Sept. 17 Where: Creole Gallery, Lansing Phone: (517) 487-9549 Online: http://www.girlyman.com Nate Borofsky of queer folk group [...]Read more about Queer musical group bends genders
Soul sisters
When the Indigo Girls first hit the folk scene in the late '80s, people were hushed about homosexuality. "They were scared to talk about it, record companies [...]Read more about Soul sisters
Women rockers take over Ann Arbor
By BTL Staff ANN ARBOR – Lesbian music fans who don't live in Ann Arbor may want to pitch a tent in the city and have their own little womyn's music festival [...]Read more about Women rockers take over Ann Arbor
Fall into queer music
DETROIT – October will be a queer music fan's dream come true when some of the hottest LGBT acts head to Detroit and Ann Arbor. Here's a run down of shows you [...]Read more about Fall into queer music
