Culture Club saved my life — or at least helped me make sense of it, which is often the same thing. When Boy George and the gang hit the U.S. shores in 1983, I was 13 years old. …

There’s a moment in the audiobook for Mariah Carey’s illuminating memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey (co-written by the ever-insightful Michaela Angela Davis) where she talks about listening to New York City radio in the mid-’80s. Suddenly, she starts singing two of the era’s biggest hits: Jocelyn Brown’s “Somebody Else’s…

Last week I shared my 50 favorite albums in response to Rolling Stone’s list of “500 Greatest Albums.” This week, I decided to compile my 100 Favorite Singles based on 50+ Black, gay years of listening to music and more than two decades of writing about it. (Check tha resume.) …

Recently, Rolling Stone queried 300 artists, producers, music industry executives, and journalists about their 50 favorite albums in order to compile a list of the “500 Greatest Albums.” They ain’t ask my Black, gay ass, so I decided to create my own ranking based on a lifetime of listening to…

The single barely cracked the Top 40, but more than a dozen years later continues to ring off—a legacy fueled by the fandom of Black gay men — Eve wanted back on the charts. It had been five years since the Philly rapper’s third album, Eve-Olution, topped Billboard’s R&B/hip-hop category. …

It’s 9 a.m. in Los Angeles, and Cher is awake. This is surprising because it’s hard to imagine a groggy Cher rolling out of bed at such a workaday hour, slipping her feet into bunny slippers, revving up the Waterpik, pouring a bowl of bran flakes. …

Initially Grace Jones’ memoir was not what I expected, as it begins with an exhaustive cultural history of her homeland Jamaica. But fortunately, Grace soon proceeds to chronicle a life that’s been lived as an unrestrained adventure, from her early days as a go-go dancer to becoming a model and…