By Barry Walters, eMusic ContributorAs a live album, Cut the World, is, like most things by or about Antony and the Johnsons, quite singular. It leads with a studio recording of Antony Hegarty's delicately elliptical yet piercing new song,… more »
By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorI was wondering what happened to the Casady sisters in the time since they released Grey Oceans, which received a collective "meh" from the music writing world. This is what I learned: Sierra produced the skeleton for an industrial opera 2011-2012 Bianca… more »
By Julianne Shepherd, eMusic ContributorYou could say artist/musician/androgyne Antony has a certain flair for drama. Spirited by the tranny cabarets and gender-fucking performance artists that lured him to New York from California in the early '90s, Antony torches his… more »
By Barry Walters, eMusic ContributorMore than 6,300 web pages characterize leader Antony Hegarty's voice as "otherworldly." It's an apt description. Not only does it suggest this unconventional singer-songwriter's ethereal, androgynous vocal tone, but it also implies that his is… more »
By Matthew Fritch, eMusic ContributorAs Antony Hegarty gets ready to turn on his Swanlights — the title of his upcoming fourth studio album and 144-page photo book/art repository/journal of the same name — and let it shine wherever he… more »
By Chuck Eddy, eMusic ContributorIndie-rock in the '00s was hardly the same animal as indie-rock two decades before, and much of the blame should probably go to Nirvana. In the '80s, labels like SST and Touch & Go were… more »
By Matthew Fritch, eMusic ContributorWith the 2005 release of I Am A Bird Now, Antony Hegarty didn't simply transcend his downtown Manhattan performance-art cult following; the British-born singer and songwriter became everybody's empath. With the voice of an arcangel… more »