It was always on the cards, really, wasn't it? Rufus Wainwright (he of Judy Garland-impersonating and 'Hallelujah'-covering fame) is to stage his firs...
exploitative either about her situation, but at the same time being realistic. There's hope. Yeah! There's always hope. But I'm always here writing my...
-- Next fall, The National Gallery of Denmark will exhibit around 100 pieces of art created by Bob Dylan. It will include 30 new works from the renais...
these intense operas and Judy Garland shows and rock concerts and stuff," Wainwright says. "I just want to bring ... Rufus Wainwright on Duetting With...
in to watch as chef/host Sam Mason enhances various tour foods, adding his own tasty touch. This season, see Rufus Wainwright, The Mountain Goats, The...
and Give It to Me Now! 05 True Loves 06 Sonnet 43 07 Sonnet 20 08 Sonnet 10 09 The Dream 10 What Would I Ever Do With a Rose? 11 Les Feux D'Artifice T...
poetic on his new album, with three "Sonnet" tracks. Songs for Lulu will be released April 20. Tracklist: 1. Who Are You New York? 2. Sad With What I ...
playwright/director Robert Wilson asked him to write music for his 2009 production "Sonette," which premiered in Berlin. "I knew a little bit about th...
the classical and the current. Billboard: How did you decide to adapt three Shakespeare sonnets to go along ... Rufus Wainwright on opera, Shakespeare...
@ Sheffield City Hall 19 - Gateshead @ The Sage Gateshead 20 - Birmingham @ Symphony Hall 22 - Manchester ... Rufus Wainwright Announces New Album, So...
Marianne Faithfull's distinctive voice is going to take up two discs and be joined by an insane list of additional distinguished singers. Easy Come, E...
."Rufus Wainwright on Casting Lou Reed as the Grinch and Being Stalked By Amy Winehouse Wainwright rounded out the set with impassioned takes on his c...
opportunity to have this slight moment of intimacy with me, which I know everybody wants," said Wainwright in a release. Stephen Oremus, who conducted...
and Martha Wainwright will perform at an all-star concert at Town Hall in New York City honoring their late mother, singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle ...
. Here's a pretty crazy story: Rufus Wainwright, who has been openly gay since forever, had a kid early this month with Lorca Cohen, the daughter of l...
For Rolling Stone's latest issue, they've gone list crazy, asking fifty artists to create their own musical top ten lists. The issue features Bono's m...
relentless and implacable confidence in your work to get it done," he said. "It's still "Aida" and "La Traviata" and "La Bohème" that fill rooms, and ...
For Rolling Stone's latest issue, they've gone list crazy, asking fifty artists to create their own musical top ten lists. The issue features Bono's m...
Rufus Wainwright and fiancé Jorn Weisbrodt are the proud fathers of a baby girl. A post today on Wainwright's website announced that Viva Katherine Wa...
How's this for a collabo? Piano pop songwriter Rufus Wainwright and Lorca Cohen, the daugther of Canadian songwriting legend Leonard Cohen, are the pr...
and the Johnsons, Justin Bond, and Anna McGarrigle, Kate's sister and musical partner. Tickets are available here. ... Rufus Wainwright, Jimmy Fallon,...
Rufus Wainwright will perform a selection from his original opera at a free show this June. The singer will perform an excerpt from his own opera, Pri...
back on stage to close the night's first set. Watch Emmylou Harris Perform a Tribute to Kate McGarrigle on Sirius/XM But the show also made room for t...
Singleton, songwriter/record exec Chris DuBois and Big Machine A&R VP Allison Jones. Curiously, the songs selected here weren't particularly country t...
Serge Gainsbourg is a man worth honoring, and a new tribute album called From Lulu To Gainsbourg does just that. Gainsbourg's son Lulu put together th...
Progress Report: The mercurial singer/songwriter chats about his new Mark Ronson-produced album, Out Of The Game. Since releasing his debut album back...
On last night's episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Rufush Wainwright sang "Minuit, Chrétiens," the French version of the Christmas song "O Holy ...
Rufus Wainwright and Mark Ronson are two pretty big names in their own right but when put together that perhaps veers a little bit more towards massiv...
A Rufus Wainwright album teaser, exclusively for Drowned in Sound... plus news of the first single from the album and a stream of a new song entitled ...
Rufus Wainwright once sang convincingly and evocatively about Millbrook, a quiet town in upstate New York. Now, he turns to Montauk, the Long Island v...
"poppiest" album to date, containing some of his most "danceable" singles. Now, forget all of that because it's absolutely irrelevant with respect to ...
Rufus Wainwright released today a new song from his forthcoming album, Out of the Game. The track is titled "Montauk" and is the first release from Ou...
It's been a great week for Rufus Wainwright fans. The songwriter released yesterday a new song, "Montauk." The track comes from his forthcoming Mark R...
Tweet Earlier this week, we brought you Rufus Wainwright's "Montauk," and lamented that it didn't sound much like what we'd imagined when we heard tha...
After an album announcement, a new single and scheduling a four-date tour, Rufus Wainwright is still teasing his new album, Out of the Game. Today com...
Rufus Wainwright enlisted producer-to-the-stars Mark Ronson to man the boards for Out Of The Game, his forthcoming solo album. And two days ago, we po...
We haven't had a good ole fashioned Lady Gaga feud in a while, have we? Sure, Madonna called Mother Monster "reductive", but pretty much left it at th...
Rufus Wainwright may not be aching to hang out with Lady Gaga, but he does count Helena Bonham Carter among his pals. The crooner therefore called upo...
Rufus Wainwright released his new video for "Out of the Game," the title track on his forthcoming album out May 1 on Decca Records. The video pokes fu...
The slick and supple "Out Of The Game" is the title track from Rufus Wainwright's forthcoming Mark Ronson-produced LP, and accordingly, Rufus has pull...
In the Black Cab Sessions video series, we see long, unbroken takes of musicians playing acoustic versions of their songs while sitting in old-school ...
Beck, Rufus Wainwright and David Bowie are among a handful of prolific musicians that have contributed unreleased tracks to a new compilation titled E...
In anticipation of the new Rufus Wainwright album Out Of The Game, which is set for release tomorrow, we've got a stream of the iTunes-exclusive bonus...
Rufus Wainwright dropped by Conan last night to play "Out Of The Game," the title track to his latest. What those shoes, Margiela? Watch the performan...
this is a minor quibble in light of hearing the vaunted Wainwright vibrato roll all over the gum commercial songs of your youth. The whole thing's mea...
An all-star cast of musicians will come together on October 30 for a benefit concert supporting the work of Freedom to Marry, dubbed "Freedom to Love ...
On October 30, the National, Rufus Wainwright, Thomas Bartlett (Doveman), They Might Be Giants, fun., Justin Vivian Bond, John Cameron Mitchell with S...
label, Hear Music, and Concord are gearing up to release Holidays Rule, a compilation of artists covering holiday classics. The album features covers ...
Rufus Wainwright with Sharon Van Etten: "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (via SoundCloud) On October 30, Starbucks' label Hear Music and Concord will release...
At the end of the month, Starbucks imprint Hear Music and Concord will release Holidays Rule, a holiday songs collection featuring a bunch of standard...