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Pat Healy

Pat Healy

Pat Healy is the Features Editor for Metro U.S. and the Music Editor of Metro World News. He has been writing for Metro for more than eight years. Among other publications, his work has also appeared in Mojo and the Boston Globe Magazine, where he wrote the Big Deal column for two years.


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Cher still looks pretty great for 67.
Credit: Fred Prouser/Reuters

Cher set to appear on ‘The Voice’ season finale on June 18

Cher will appear on the season finale of “The Voice” on June 18, making her first live TV performance in more than 10 years, NBC said on Monday.

Posted in Entertainment, Music, Television
Tagged Cher, Cher Bono, NBC, Shakira, The Voice, Usher, Woman's World
Black Sabbath's "13" is actually their 19th album.

Black Sabbath to release new album, embark on world tour

In 1970 Black Sabbath released their debut self-titled album, a collection of songs inspired by occult themes and powered by heavy-metal guitar riffs.

Posted in Entertainment, Music
Tagged Bill Ward, Black Sabbath, Brad Wilk, Geezer Butler, Ozzy, Ozzy Osbourne, Rage Against the Machine, Rick Rubin, Tony Iomi, Tony Iommi
The Glimmer Twins, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, are pictured here on the tour where one of the stage props included a giant phallus.

Credit: Michael Putland/Hulton Archive

Stephen Davis: The Rolling Stones and Boston, all down the line

The Rolling Stones’ Fifty and Counting tour visits Boston for two nights this week, and rock biographer Stephen Davis chronicles this storied history.

Posted in Entertainment, Music
Tagged Billy Preston, Boston, Brian Jones, Fifty and Counting, Keef, Keith Richard, Keith Richards, Kevin White, Longview, Mick Jagger, Mick Taylor, Regatta Bar, Rolling Stones, Ron Wood, Scullers, Sir Morgan's Cove, Stephen Davis, Stevie Wonder | Reply
The publisher did not comment on whether or not the actor playing Archie will shave that weird graph-type design into his head or not.

Archie comics spins into first live-action film

Archie, Veronica, Betty and Jughead are coming to the big screen for the first time in a live-action feature film based on the long-running “Archie” comics.

Posted in Entertainment, Movies
Tagged Archie, Archie Andrews, Archie comics, Betty, Betty Cooper, Jason Moore, Jughead, Pitch Perfect, riverdale, Veronica, Veronica Lodge, Warner Brothers
Iggy Azalea performs on stage at the 'Chime For Change: The Sound Of Change Live' Concert at Twickenham Stadium on June 1, 2013 in London, England. Chime For Change is a global campaign for girls' and women's empowerment founded by Gucci with a founding committee comprised of Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini, Salma Hayek Pinault and Beyonce Knowles-Carter.  

(Photo credit: Karwai Tang/WireImage)

Iggy Azalea: ‘The New Classic’ for hip-hop

Iggy Azalea is a leggy Australian blonde bombshell and not exactly the type of person you’d expect to see as the up-and-coming face of hip-hop.

Posted in Entertainment, Music
Tagged 2Pac, Busta Rhymes, Chime for Change, Iggy Azalea, Ludacris, Missy Elliott, Outkast, Pu$$y, Rebecca Dalton, The New Classic, Yes we tagged Rebecca Dalton | Reply
Daft Punk fans, show your faces! Or don't.

Daft Punk holds off Alice in Chains, Fogerty for Billboard No. 1

French electro-dance music duo Daft Punk held onto the top spot for a second week on the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday.

Posted in Entertainment, Music
Tagged album, Alice in Chains, bestselling, billboard, Brad Paisley, chart, Daft Punk, Foo Fighters, John Fogerty, Little Mix, Miranda Lambert, Music, one direction, Random Access Memories, sales, top spot
Not only will Sting release his first album in a decade this year, but he'll also be making it into a Broadway musical.

(PHOTO CREDIT: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)

Sting returns to his childhood for new musical, album

Sting has turned back to his childhood in the shadow of a struggling shipyard in northern England for a musical that will debut on Broadway next year.

Posted in Entertainment, Music
Tagged album, Brian Johnson, Broadway, childhood, england, Gordon Sumner, Jimmy Nail, Kathryn Tickel, musical, police, shipyard, Sting, Swan Hunter, The Last Ship, The Unthanks, The Wilson Brothers
A lawyer says Scott Weiland doesn't need to be in front of the microphone in order for an official Stone Temple Pilots performance to happen.

(PHOTO CREDIT: Reuters)

Lawyer says Stone Temple Pilots can go on without Scott Weiland

The remaining members of Stone Temple Pilots will not disband despite former singer Scott Weiland asking a court to force them to do so.

Posted in Entertainment, Music
Tagged Chester Bennington, court, disband, lawsuit, Linkin Park, Music, Scott Weiland, Stone Temple Pilots, STP, the word, Weiland
Lena Dunham once told Playboy that if she woke up with the body of a Victoria's Secret model, she wouldn't be happy.

(PHOTO CREDIT: HBO)

Natural beauty: What’s sexy in 2013

With “Girls” a hit and plus-sized models becoming the norm, we wonder: Are the days of the blonde bimbo being considered super sexy totally over?

Posted in Entertainment, Wellbeing
Tagged Arielle Loren, blonde, Corset magazine, Gabi Gregg, H&M, Jenna Jameson, Jennie Runk, Lena Dunham, Louis C.K., models, plus-size, sex, sexy, YouPorn | Reply
During our conversation with Burnel, he asked with fondness, “Do you know, remember or have you heard of The Rat? Is it still going? 
Because that is the very first place we ever played the first time we played America.” We had to break it to him gently that the fabled Kenmore Square 
venue that was officially called The Rathskellar closed a few years before the new millennium. The Stranglers play High Line Ballroom in NYC on June 3, at Brighton Music Hall in Allston, Mass. on June 4 and Union Transfer in Philly on June 5.

They’re ‘Giants’ at home, but the Stranglers deserve more US love

Punk rock icons the Stranglers return to the States for the first time in almost 20 years.

Posted in Entertainment, Music
Tagged Jet Black, JJ Burnel, Joe Strummer, Music, punk, punk rock, Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Stranglers, tour, US | Reply
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