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By REBEKAH SAGER
Theres a scene in Grace and Frankie money for life-saving research and care for
in which Lilly Tomlin and Jane Fonda are premier institutes around the world, raising
sitting in Adirondack chairs, the surf nearly billions of dollars for charity. In 2013, he
lapping at their feet as the Pacic Ocean sold his company and now volunteers his
crashes loudly then recedes Zen-like. This time mentoring, supporting and advising
is living, says Grace to a near catatonic individuals and organizations. He also
Frankie. I want this house, she says. works to help communities gain access to
Who wouldnt want to own a beachfront academic facilities, scholarship programs
home in Malibu? and receive life saving medical support.
Long the most coveted second home The Goldman-Pendleton West
community in Los Angeles, Malibu has Hollywood Library Mall, for instance, in
an international reputation and culture West Hollywood is a landmark facility for
all its own. The views, the sunsets, the the communitys commitment to lifelong
meandering clis of the jagged coastline, learning, and in the Philippines, two state-
the gentle breezes and the almost always of-the-art Pendleton-Goldman Learning
perfect weather is the stu of legend. It Centers, are serving local communities to
has inspired lm, TV and literary types help break the generational cycle of poverty
for years and over time has become an in their communities. The Pendleton-
exclusive hideaway for some of the most Goldman PrEP clinic provides HIV education
famous and wealthiest people on Earth. and prevention to underserved individuals in
Increasingly, too, Malibu is supplanting South Los Angeles. Theres even a language
Palm Springs as the ultimate second home lab and an LGBT scholarship program the
community for successful gay and lesbian pair fund at The University of Tennessee in
(and at least one notable trans woman) Knoxville, Goldmans alma mater.
Angelenos. But it was this years #ResistMarch
When philanthropists Brian Pendleton that put Pendleton (and Goldman) on
and his husband Chad Goldman started the national map. The #ResistMarch
looking for a second home some years was a resoundingly successful show
This home at 20906 Pacic Coast Highway is listed for $6,450,000.
ago, they chose Malibu. While all of our of Pendletons team building and
friends were buying in Palm Springs, we PHOTO COURTESY OF BRIAN PENDLETON
organizational skills.
decided to buy in Malibu, Pendleton told This year, the LGBTQ community is
the Los Angeles Blade. can walk right o the beach and grab a quiet and quaint. You can go to the movies lending our iconic rainbow ag to anyone
But the couple didnt buy just any margarita, and head to the living room, there and park in the spot right out front who feels like their rights are under threat
property. They bought one of the best Pendleton told the Los Angeles Blade. of the theater doors, Pendleton says. and to anyone who feels like Americas
traditional coastal homes in all of Malibu. Conveniently positioned on whats known We bought it as an investment strength is its diversity, Pendleton said.
Their three-story home sits on Las as dog beach (they have two fur-babies) property, and Malibu was a great location. The political climate we nd ourselves in
Flores beach in east Malibu, oering two and, unlike many of the houses up and Its closer to LA. And while interest rates has driven us to galvanize and unite.
bedrooms, two baths, a full-size kitchen down the beach, the house is fronted by a are still low, we thought wed take a look Today, their attention is turned toward
and a kitchenette on the ground oor. It seawall versus pillions, so the water cant go and see what buyers are interested. The selling the luxe Malibu beach house,
was rebuilt in 2003, and is meant to be underneath the house as it rushes against home is perfect for a retired couple or and enjoying the singular peace and
shared with friends and family, boasting a the wall, leaving the home protected. small family who wants to live in Malibu. tranquility of their equally amazing full-
three-car garage and an additional three Its great for a second house or for And for people looking for second home time home overlooking Runyon Canyon
outdoor parking spaces rare for Malibu. someone who lives in LA. Its so much in Malibu, Pendleton says. and downtown LA.
The house is perfectly designed for closer than going to Santa Barbara or But I am not terribly motivated, says The couple can sit back and smile,
entertaining, with two living rooms, two Palm Springs, and when you get out there Pendelton with a smile. Pendleton, as because they have Adirondack chairs in
dining areas, and multiple re-pits. You it feels like youre in a dierent city. Its founder of CauseForce, helped raise the Hollywood Hills too.
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By MICHAEL JORTNER
Berkshire Hathaway is oering perhaps the most iconic house in Los Angeles, the Dynasty house.
Its surely the perfect home for any LGBT family.
Its hard not to be captivated upon Dening luxury price point, said Randy Lopez, 50, an demand.
hearing: Do you recall the scene in What exactly meets such criteria? Isnt agent with Coldwell Banker Beverly Hills Yet most readers will be familiar with
Dynasty when Krystle and Alexis slap everything a family-size luxury property? North. If you say family-sized property, the concept of competition. While all three
each other into the the lily pond? Cacarnakis asks. We have a term that we thats dierent than family-sized luxury agents said the market for high-priced
Oh good, youre riveted now, too. Thats use in our oce: Everybodys House. Its a property. In my mind, Im thinking homes ($2.5 million and higher) has
Nick Cacarnakis talking, the 43-year-old house that will work for everybody. anywhere between three to ve million softened, Lopez says, In the $1 million
branch manager of Berkshire Hathaway For him, that means enough bedrooms, and upwards, depending upon what their to $10 million range, if something is well
Home Services on Rodeo Drive in Beverly enough bathrooms, maybe a backyard, denition of luxury is. done, well-priced based on comps, and
Hills. That house, which, of course, is too, a home that, no matter what the Maybe now is a good time to introduce desirable, youre still gonna have a huge
every gay boys dream to live in that house, family looks like, can work. the problem of sticker shock, the biggest demand for that property.
right? Its listed at $28 million. In terms of price, it can be all over the challenge Kaplan faces when helping a All three said they still see properties
Sighluxury real estate in the City of map. Half of [our listings] in the Beverly client enter the market. sell in a single day with multiple oers all
Angels, so reasonable, so within reach. Hills oce, which are $2 million and up, I really like working with rst-time above asking. Lopez said, Is it in a great
More attainable properties, from would fall into the category of being a buyers, Kaplan said. Walking them through area? Is it priced right? If theres a value
condos to three-bedroom homes, are luxury family home, Cacarnakis added. the process, getting them to understand the there for people, based on logic and
generally the focus for the three real Keith Kaplan, 57, an agent with Sothebys value equation of owning versus renting. Its numbers, were gonna see that [sell].
estate professionals interviewed for this expanded on that. He said, Theres really a tremendous jump to take. The other two agents agree.
article, all of whom happen to be gay. a wide range. Is there any hope for those trying to Expectations are high on all sides,
They buy, sell and manage real estate With a focus on WeHo and adjacent make that dramatic transition? Although Cacarnakis said, especially on the
transactions throughout Los Angeles. One environs, for Kaplan that means the lenders have not gotten so relaxed were Westside when were dealing with business
has a particular niche (West Hollywood) category of luxury family homes starts gonna be in the position we were in 2008, managers and attorneys.
while the other two consider themselves with condos, perhaps on Kings Road, Kaplan added, they are relaxing a bit. Kaplan added, Im seeing some crazy,
generalists, the entire city their focus. lets say, at around $750,000, all the way Lower down payments are allowing more crazy bidding over ask. I saw some
Each shared his perspective on, and up to the new homes built along swanky, Millennials to enter the market, so we 2-bedrooms in West Hollywood priced at
experience with, the current market for revamped Orlando Avenue between Santa have more options for them. $750,000[they] went out at $825,000.
LGBT clients, especially families, in search Monica Boulevard and Melrose Avenue Kaplan added, The rst home product, Thats a tremendous overbid. Apparently
of luxury homes. listing as high as $8.5 million. or the rst trade-up product, homes
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and her relationship with her mother. Restaurant. They began dating two years be grateful for her tenacity and courage.
In the early 1980s, I invited Kate to later. In 1967, two years before the Stonewall
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Tom of Finland, from director Dome Karukoski, tells the story of Finlands infamous homoerotic
export.
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By MICHAEL JORTNER
Im speaking with Finnish film director Luckily for us, Tom of Finland, his York City, and Oct. 20 in San Francisco and you heard a character declare, My cock is
Dome Karukoski via phone. Hes in Europe recently completed feature telling the Los Angeles (The Nuart). A national release the boss?
shooting his new project, a biopic of Lord story of Finlands infamous homoerotic will follow. Karukoski has always felt like he doesnt
of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien. export, is a lot more accessible. The film is really good strong Finnish quite belong. Its a theme tying his oeuvre
Im in England, he says. Unfortunately, Finlands entry for the 2018 Academy cast, traditional three-act structure, of seven feature films together. Yes, seven.
I cant tell anything about that project Awards, having screened at Outfest this beautiful cinematography and some
other than that. past July, will now premiere Oct. 13 in New unique dialogue. When was the last time ContinueS ON page 30
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Darren Aronofsky doesnt make movies critics and audiences alike labeled it as a their doorstep, threatening the stability of the buy into them, even as he twists them into the
for your enjoyment. op within moments of walking out of the idyllic world they have built for themselves. service of his larger agenda.
From the earliest days of his career, his lms theater, and took to social media with ranting The premise echoes countless other thrillers He utilizes a similar combination of
have been a relentless barrage of grotesque diatribes calling it one of the worst movies in which happy couples are terrorized by homage and satire in the repurposing of
and transgressive imagery, built around ever made but does it really deserve such interlopers, and forced to face uncomfortable some of his own now-familiar tools, most
themes of paranoia and self-destruction, and labels? The answer to that question may be truths about themselves as they battle to notably the unreliable narrator technique.
tied together into a debasing experience that as perplexing as the lm itself. restore order to their lives. Though Aronofsky Almost the entirety of Mother! is focused in
feels less like a catharsis than an assault. Mother! is ostensibly the tale of a young quickly derails the formula with his customary close-up proximity to Lawrences character;
Consequently, it seems odd that viewers woman (Jennifer Lawrence) who lives with descent into nightmare logic, he nevertheless most of the action comes to our attention
would expect his latest work Mother! to her older husband (Javier Bardem), in an takes on all the tropes of the genre buried through a sort of peripheral vision which not
be the kind of tried-and-true psychological isolated house in the country. She works secrets, subversions of intimacy, implications only serves as a reminder that we are seeing
thriller its advertising would seem to suggest; hard restoring their home, previously burned of gaslighting, even good old-fashioned it through her eyes, but creates a dreamlike
it seems even more odd that their reaction to in a re, while he struggles with writers block, jump scares. He doesnt necessarily take ow which warns us that not everything in
it would be one of surprise and even outrage. but their life together seems tranquil and full them seriously; indeed, he milks them for this lm should be taken at face value.
Yet that is precisely what happened. of hope until a strange couple (Ed Harris considerable humor, using them to mock both
During the movies opening weekend, and Michelle Pfeier) unexpectedly arrives at themselves and the audiences willingness to CONTINUES AT LOSANGELESBLADE.COM
By CHRISTOPHER CAPPIELLO
Film and television may dominate Los with the French composers lesser-known
Angeles culture, but the ne arts are alive work set in an Asian pearl-diving village.
and well and thriving in venues large and British director Penny Woolcocks modern-
small. From opera to dance, visual arts dress production has earned raves in
to classical music, the Southland has a London and New York for its evocative
delicious buet of fall oerings to satisfy use of technology. The piece also includes
your appetite for culture. Here are some one of the most beautiful male duets in
upcoming highlights. all of opera, Au don du temple saint,
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MARTN RAMREZ: HIS LIFE on homoerotic undertones. Oct. 7-28,
IN PICTURES, ANOTHER Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand
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ICA LA inaugurates its new downtown LA
DORRANCE DANCE 2015 MacArthur Genius Fellowship recipient MICHELLE DORRANCE (left) has resurrected and
space with the rst major SoCal exhibition of redened tap dance.
the work of one of the most celebrated outsider 2015 MacArthur genius Fellowship
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WALLIS
artists, Martn Ramrez. Born in Mexico, recipient Michelle Dorrance has
Ramirez emigrated to California to nd work resurrected and redened tap dance.
in 1925. After the stock market crash, he was Angelenos get a taste of her talents with season the septuagenarian tenor continues resident dance company at the Wallis
living on the streets and was hastily diagnosed this full evening of work, including an his exploration of Verdi baritone roles by Annenberg Center for the Performing
with schizophrenia and lived the last 30 years extended version of her Myelination, taking on the title role in Nabucco, singing Arts, meaning the troupe will present
of his life in NorCal psychiatric hospitals where which earned plaudits in a 2015 the mad emperor opposite Ukrainian programs in the fall and spring. The fall
he created an astonishing body of drawings incarnation in New York. Oct. 12-14, The soprano Liudmyla Monastryrska, in a bill includes three pieces choregraphed by
using rudimentary materials. Through Dec. Wallis, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly reprise of a heralded pairing last year at Millepied and a U.S. premiere of a work by
31, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Hills, 90210; thewallis.org the Met Opera. Oct. 14-Nov. 19, Dorothy young French choreographer No Soulier.
1717 E. 7th St., Los Angeles, 90021; theicala.org Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., Los Nov. 2-4, The Wallis, 9390 N. Santa Monica
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MOZART 1791 Long Beach Opera can be counted
In the never-ending search for new ways on to present powerful productions of UNTIL THE LIONS BERNSTEIN ON STAGE
to celebrate his work, the LA Philharmonic provocative work. This fall the ambitious As part of the Music Centers always- As part of Bernstein at 100, a two-
presents a multi-part celebration of the company stages Gian Carlo Menottis The engaging Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance year global celebration of the centennial
last year in the short but prolic life of the Consul, an intimate opera with a timely program, the adventurous Akram Khan of the birth of American composer
incomparable Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. and relevant story about refugees. Patricia Company comes to town with Until the extraordinaire Leonard Bernstein, the
Only 35, Mozart had a remarkably productive Racette, who earned raves for her Salome at Lions, award-winning choreographer Khans Valley Performing Arts Center presents
nal year before falling ill in the autumn LA Opera this year, sings the role of Magda interpretation of a work by poet Karthika an evening celebrating the composer and
and dying quickly. The LA Phils program Sorel, whose husband is a political dissident Nair. Khan uses classical Indian kathak dance conductors contributions to American
includes his last piano concerto, played by on the run in an undisclosed totalitarian as well as muscular, athletic contemporary theater. Broadway star Davis Gaines and
Spanish pianist Javier Perianes, and four state. Oct. 14-22, Centinela Valley Center forms to tell the story of Princess Amba, who the Gay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles join
evenings featuring the Clarinet Concerto and for the Arts, 14901 S. Inglewood Ave., calls on the gods for revenge after being the New West Symphony under the baton
selections from Mozarts beloved opera The Lawndale, 90260; longbeachopera.org abducted on her wedding day. Oct. 18-21, of John Mauceri, who worked side-by-side
Magic Flute. Gustavo Dudamel conducts. Culver Studios, 9336 Washington Blvd., with Bernstein for 18 years. Audiences
Sept. 26-Oct. 8, Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 NABUCCO Culver City, 90232; musiccenter.org. will hear beloved music from West Side
S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, 90012; laphil.com One of the great treasures of LAs cultural Story, Wonderful Town and Candide,
scene is that Plcido Domingo has made LA L.A. DANCE PROJECT as well as lesser-known works like Trouble
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The gay designer behind every L.A. Red Carpet that matters
GLAM IS SPELLED BUTCHKAVITZ
By SUSAN L. HORNIK
When events producer Billy Butchkavitz down the HBO Emmys partya three Beverly Hilton for a 1960s style Gay and and I are gay, so its like three sisters, he
is not creating impressive designs for day process at the Pacic Design Lesbian Centers annual gala this weekend. quipped.
HBO parties throughout the year, he is Center, where the party theme was The Next is a red carpet premiere for HB0s When they reach a destination they
searching for new decor themes around Royal Pavilion, in Brighton, England; the new documentary on Steven Spielberg want to explore more, they all shoot o in
the world. custom textiles, furniture, table top decor, and The Golden Globes. dierent directions, so they can all barter
My favorite thing is to travel and nd new large scale decor and carpeting were all Butchkavitzs parties take months to and bargain at the markets. From Egypt,
sources, i.e. people that can manufacture inuenced by their very bold chinoiserie plan and bring to fruition. Europe and Indonesia to Malaysia and
for me, vendors, ideas. Just walking through interiors. Last year, we started working on Laos, we have done it all. It keeps us going.
villages in India and seeing a temple or A 30 diameter tiered chinoiserie the Emmys party right after the Golden Butchkavitz considers himself lucky. Its
seeing people on the banks of a river pagoda surrounded by a garden of giant Globes, because it takes so long to get the whole thing of right place, right time.
doing hand block textiles, I nd inspiration jade trees was one of the focal points of everything sourced, manufactured and I started doing events in Honolulu in 1986.
everywhere, Butchkavitz enthused. the party and served as the entertainment shipped in, since we do custom carpets HBO came to a hotel opening I did and
The veteran organizer/designer is one hub, he noted. Also, a series of 12 high and textiles, he explained. asked me to do see stu for them. Twenty
busy guy: he creates over 36 elaborate Chinese Guardian Lions stood watch in the Butchkavitz is not a one man show, he three years later, I am still with them. In
parties each year, and ongoingly works main dining pavilion, along with a 20 long works closely with his brother and sister. addition, I have also done events around
for years with gay and lesbian students for replica of The Royal Pavilions magnicent They are my travelling buddies; we go the world for others clients too.
Project Ten. banquet room chandelier. everywhere together and are really close.
Butchkavitz just wrapped up breaking This weekend he is setting up at The We love going places together. My brother CONTINUES AT LOSANGELESBLADE.COM
EMMA STONE
AS BILLIE JEAN KING
STEVE CARELL
AS BOBBY RIGGS
IN THEATRES 9.22
By BRIAN T. CARNEY
For those of us who have a taste for lm play is set in the heart of LAs historic
and theater, fall is the time of year when Filipinotown, where Miracles, a ladyboy
there always seems to be an avalanche of masseuse who walks for the infamous
choices. House of Malacaang, has a forbidden
Never fear, weve got you covered. love aair which sparks tensions between
Here are the must-see options for Blade the citys hottest political families. The
readers in the months ahead. kind of diverse, Angeleno-born theatre
that doesnt get enough attention in a
ON THE SCREEN town obsessed with big ticket prestige,
Battle of the Sexes Sep 22 this slice of local attitude by Boni B. Alvarez
Emma Stone and Steve Carrell star deserves your support.
as Billie Jean King and Bobby Rigg, The View UpStairs Ongoing thru
respectively, in this lm about their much- Oct 29
touted 1973 tennis match. Directed by Celebration Theatre @ The Lex (6760
Jonathon Dayton and Valerie Faris, it LUKE MACFARLANE (left) and BRIAN HUTCHISON in the world premiere of Big Night at Center Lexington)
focuses on the personal struggles of the Theatre Groups Kirk Douglas Theatre. This O-Broadway hit by Max Vernon is
two rivals, and has garnered particular PHOTO COURTESY OF CENTER THEATER GROUP a gripping, heartfelt and provocative new
praise for Stones performance as the musical that pulls you inside the world of
legendary lesbian icon. historic 70s New Orleans bar The UpStairs
Marshall -- Oct 13 and Jaden Michael, this one looks very another sure bet for gay audiences. Lounge, as a young fashion designer from
Chadwick Boseman stars as future promising. 2017 buys the abandoned space and
rst African-American Supreme Court Gods Own Country Oct 27 ON THE STAGE sets o a journey of seduction and self-
Justice Thurgood Marshall in this much- The opener of this years OutFest, this Big Night Ongoing thru Oct. 8 exploration. Stellar reviews of its New
anticipated lm about his days as a young U.K. drama has been described as the Kirk Douglas Theatre (9820 Washington York run (which closed in May) praised its
attorney. Following his court defense of English Brokeback Mountain. Directed Blvd, Culver City) score and its visual style, and predicted its
a fellow black man accused of rape and by rst-time lmmaker Francis Lee, its The world premiere production of the destiny as an iconic cult phenomenon.
murder, it promises to be one of the the story of an unlikely but irresistible latest play by acclaimed out playwright Directed by Ovation-winner Michael A.
years big awards contenders. Directed romance between a Yorkshire sheep Paul Rudnick. Its Oscar night and Mike Shepperd.
by Reginald Hudlin, and also starring Dan farmer and the Romanian immigrant he is nominated. His transgender nephew Bash Oct 14 thru Oct 21
Stevens, Kate Hudson, James Cromwell, takes on as a hired hand and sure to is pushing him to make a political Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center
Josh Gad and Sterling K. Brown. be a must-see for acionados of LGBTQ acceptance speech, his mother drops (11006 Magnolia Blvd, North Hollywood)
Wonderstruck Oct 20 cinema. a bombshell on him, and his boyfriend If youre looking for a dose of theatre
The latest lm by out director Todd Call Me By Your Name Nov 24 wont return his calls just another night at its most raw and controversial, this
Haynes is adapted by Brian Selznick from Already in the news, thanks to actor in Hollywood. Another hilarious and mounting of the rst published work by
his own novel about two young runaways James Woods hateful tweeting (and the razor-sharp romp by the writer of such gay renowned playwright and lmmaker Neil
50 years apart who each seek the responses to it from star Armie Hammer classics as Jerey, In And Out, and The LaBute might be just the ticket. A trio of one
same mysterious connection. Known and Amber Tamblyn), this 1980s-set Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, this one is act duets and monologues (one of which
for the way he mines cultural nostalgia coming-of-age romantic drama was denitely worth catching before it makes details a horric gay-bashing incident), this
for queer and outsider experiences (Far adapted by James Ivory (Maurice, A its run towards Broadway. plays uninching look at the evil lurking
From Heaven, Velvet Goldmine, Carol), Room With a View) from the novel Fixed Ongoing thru Oct 22 underneath everyday life was responsible
Haynes also has a knack for the innovative by Andr Aciman. Directed by Luca Echo Theatre Company @ Atwater for getting LaBute excommunicated from
re-imagining of vintage cinematic styles Guadagnino, its the story of an academic Village Theatre (3269 Casitas Ave) the Mormon church. Make that dreaded
something which should prove interesting staying with an Italian couple and the Equally inspired by Calderns Spanish trip to the Valley (really, people, its just a
in his weaving together of two narratives attraction he develops with their teenaged drama The Physician of His Own short drive through the hills) and see why.
separated across time. Starring Julianne son. Starring Hammer opposite Timothe Honorand the iconic documentaryParis
Moore, Michelle Williams, Oakes Fegley Chalamet (Homeland), its bound to be Is Burning, this erce and funny new CONTINUES AT LOSANGELESBLADE.COM
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By CHRIS GERARD
The new release schedule for fall is with Pacic Daydream. The-Dream
loaded with long-awaited new albums also hits on the 27th with Love Aair,
from some of the biggest stars in music. featuring the hit single Summer Body,
There will be plenty of new tunes to keep and emo-rockers the Used return with
music fans occupied. The Canyon.
September is highlighted by the latest The much-anticipated new Taylor
from favorite Dave Grohl and Foo Swift album, Reputation, arrives Nov.
Fighters, who unleash their ninth studio 10. Led by smash single Look What You
album, Concrete and Gold, featuring the Made Me Do, its likely to be the seasons
electrifying rst single Run. biggest-selling release. Also hitting on the
Also out is a live album and DVD 10th is the latest from moody alt-rockers
documenting Madonnas record-breaking Evanescence, Synthesis.
Rebel Heart Tour. Also out is the latest from Nov. 17 is highlighted by the latest from
new wave pioneer Gary Numan, Savage that icon of wit and misery, Morrissey,
(Songs From a Broken World), Yusuf who is back with Low in High School. The
(formerly Cat Stevens) with The Laughing season is capped by the long-promised
Apple, Swedish EDM duo Galantis are back After a long hiatus from music, SHANIA TWAIN is back with a new album dubbed Now, slated for a Songs of Experience by U2, the follow-up
with The Aviary, former Vampire Weekend Sept. 29 release. Its her rst album since 2002s RIAA Diamond-selling Up!
to their outstanding 2014 release Songs of
mainstay Rostom will release his solo PHOTO BY GIAMPAOLO SGURA; COURTESY THE KARPEL GROUP Innocence. Presumably, though, the new
debut Half-Light and Metric vocalist Emily album wont show up on everyones iPhone
Haines is set to release her new solo album automatically, or at least we can hope.
Choir of the Mind. You, while country-pop superstar Shania critically beloved St. Vincent will deliver Kanye West may (or may not) unload
More big new releases arrive the Twain is back with her rst new album in one of the years most anticipated albums his latest, reportedly titled Turbo Grafx
following week, with new wave revivalists 15 years, Now. with MASSEDUCTION. Also scheduled for 16, this fall as always, he is hard to
the Killers leading the way with Wonderful Demi Lovato also returns on the 29th the 13th are new albums by Beck, Colors; predict. Bjork is working with acclaimed
Wonderful. Also dropping Sept. 22 is with Tell Me You Love Me, featuring her legendary Led Zeppelin frontman Robert gay electronic visionary Arca on an album
Double Dutchess, the long-awaited platinum single Sorry Not Sorry and Plant, Carry Fire; William Patrick (aka expected in November, with the rst single
second solo album by Black-Eyed Peas Miley Cyrus delivers her latest, Younger Billy) Corgan with his collaboration with called The Gate.
diva Fergie. It comes 11 years after her Now. British synthpop duo Hurts also producer Rick Rubin, Ogilala; and an Other artists expected to release new
smash The Duchess, but judging from the have a new album on the 29th, Desire, intriguing collaboration between uber- albums this fall but have yet to announce
singles so far it will be well worth the wait. including the new single Ready to Go. talented troubadours Courtney Barnett dates include Tei Shi, Sam Smith (who
Other new albums due on the 22nd include Former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher and Kurt Vile, Lotta Sea Lice. just released a new single, Too Good
the latest from trip-hop pioneer Tricky, has set his new solo album As You Were Also out Oct. 13 is The Con X: Covers, a At Goodbyes), Ne-Yo, Paloma Faith,
ununiform, folk-rock legend Van Morrison Available for an Oct. 6 release. Alternative 10th anniversary celebration of The Con Thirty Seconds to Mars, En Vogue, 80s
with Roll With the Punches, goth goddess rockers Wolf Parade are also back on the by openly gay sisters Tegan and Sara with heroes Tears for Fears, 90s rockers the
Chelsea Wolfe with Hiss Spun, Australian sixth with Cry Cry Cry, along with the debut all of that classic albums songs covered by Ospring, Travis Scott, Charli XCX,
electro-pop group Cut Copy with Haiku From album by the much-buzzed about R&B various artists. Barenaked Ladies, Nas, Clean Bandit,
Zero, versatile R&B vocalist Ledisi with Let vocalist Kelela, the latest from indie-popsters Look for a newly remastered and Kylie Minogue, MGMT, Sara Bareilles,
Love Rule, rapper Macklemores rst solo Ducktails, Jersey Devil, the new solo eort expanded edition of the Smiths The Zayn, Tove Lo, Kiesza, Avril Lavigne,
album in 12 years, Gemini, and a live album by openly gay Bloc Party vocalist Kele Queen is Dead on Oct. 20. Originally Mariah Carey, up-and-coming rapper
by acclaimed lesbian guitar virtuoso Kaki Okereke, Fatherland and glam-rockers the released in 1986, its widely considered Kamaiyah, Marilyn Manson and a
King, Live at Berklee. Darkness with Pinewood Smile. one of their nest eorts. Christmas oering from one of pops
Sept. 29 is a big week for multiple Pop superstar Pink returns Oct. 13 with October wraps up with two of the falls hottest stars, Sia. Inevitably some of these
generations of female artists. The her rst album in ve years, Beautiful biggest releases: Kelly Clarkson drops will get bumped to 2018.
legendary country icon Dolly Parton will Trauma, featuring the stunning rst her latest, Meaning of Life, on Oct. 27,
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