Antony and The Johnsons

In 1965, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles scored one of their most enduring hits, the slow and silky cheater's-remorse ballad "Ooo Baby Baby". It's been covered by everyone from Linda Ronstadt to Todd Rundgren to Zapp; now Marianne Faithfull and Antony Hegarty join that diverse roster with "OO...  

Hercules & Love Affair is the sleek retro-futuristic vehicle for New York DJ Andrew Butler's supremely animated dance-pop. On the project's self-titled, DFA-assisted debut, Butler is joined by a small stable of guest vocalists, most notably Antony Hegarty of Antony & the Johnsons. The sizable...  

Antony And The Johnsons are dropping lots of teasers lately leading up to the Jan. 20 release of their hotly anticipated third album, The Crying Light. First, there was the Another World EP, which was released last month. Then, Antony Hegarty and co. released a video for lead single "Another...  

How can one man's tragic song sound so uplifting? Antony Hegarty, singer-songwriter and creative force behind Antony and the Johnsons, has made a career singing wistful songs. "Another World," the first single off his upcoming album, The Crying Light (due January 20), is no exception. (The song...  

Chamber-pop warbler Antony Hegarty has always thrived in stark black-and-white, from the monotone severity of his cover photos to the crashing finality of his lost-love elegies. But he follows 2005's Mercury Prize–winning I Am a Bird Now with something decidedly more green: a five-song EP of...  

Famously panned on its 1973 release, Lou Reed’s doomy art-rock opera completed its rehabilitation with a 2006 run at St Ann’s warehouse in Brookyln. ...  

Onstage at Harlem’s fabled Apollo Theatre, Antony Hegarty cuts an imposing figure. Swept along by a 20-piece orchestra, New York City’s reigning demi-monde diva sobs epic tales of operatic sorrow and romantic rapture. Draped in a magnificent ...  

We posted this track as an MP3 back in August, and now you can see it in living color, as presented on the new DVD Lou Reed's Berlin, Julian Schabnel's documentary of Reed's December 2006 performance at St. Ann's Warehouse. Antony Hegarty joins Reed for the last verse of this VU classic, and the...  

On paper a concert by Antony Hegarty backed by a 60-piece orchestra might not seem a good idea. Hegarty's bittersweet mood of self-absorption (sample lyric from Cripple and the Starfish : “I am so very happy/ So please hit me”) slathered in ...  

Filed under: Video, ExclusiveSpinner.com: Legendary rocker Lou Reed tackles the tough issue of domestic abuse on 'Caroline Says Pt. II,' with some help from Antony Hegarty (of Antony and the Johnsons). This moving live version of the song was taken from the recently released DVD 'Lou Reed...  

Antony Hegarty's music, performed under the name Antony & The Johnsons, is a lesson in the performativity of gender, operatic and self-consciously flamboyant.  

Antony and the Johnsons/ LSO Barbican, London EC2 Antony Hegarty isn't what you'd call the complete performer, I think it's fair to say, though he is in fine voice - and what a voice, crystalline and plaintive, filling the sedate Barbican Hall tonight. But no, he could be in his own bedsit...  

One is overly angsty; the other is far too precious. Both wear black on the outside because it’s how they feel on the inside. Whether you’re into popping zits or pop songs, letting the world see your sadness requires dead-serious dedication.  

At first, this five-song EP sounds like a handful deep cuts from Antony Hegarty's breakout LP I Am a Bird Now, but repeat listens quickly reveal a more varied and restrained effort whose bare-bones arrangements put the emphasis right where it should be-- on Antony's lush, quavering voice...  

Last night, a small group of old-school Downtown types headed to the offices of P.S.1 's radio station , the top two floors of a city building on Leonard Street, for an intimate performance by Antony Hegarty to ...