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Double Your Fun with the Perry Twins

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May 16, 2012 Gay Music

Doug and Derek Perry, better known to dance music lovers everywhere as the Perry Twins, are looking forward to the Memorial Day Weekend and the unofficial start to the summer season. “People are ready to shed their problems and shed their outer wear to show off their new bodies for swimsuit season, both in and out of the clubs.” Since headlining last year’s Global Groove Tour sponsored by Centaur Entertainment and GuySpy.com, they have had a busy schedule with DJ appearances across the country.

This summer, the Perry Twins expect to be just as busy, as they are currently writing and producing new songs for their upcoming album. “We are so excited to be working on an original song with Rhona Bennett (En Vogue, The Mickey Mouse Club) entitled ‘When Love Is Gone.’ She is an awesome singer with a great energy.”

They are also writing and producing new tracks for Ejay Day (American Idol finalist) and Jania, with whom they released “Activate My Body” in 2007. Recently, they have collaborated on tracks with DJ Kelly Divan and other terrific artists that will be hitting dance floors this summer.

The Perry Twins are Los Angeles based DJs/Producers who hit #1 on the Billboard Club Play Chart with “Bad, Bad Boy” featuring Niki Haris. “Bad, Bad Boy” is the follow-up to their debut single “Activate My Body” featuring Jania. They recently released remixes of their latest single featuring Abigail, “We’ll Never Know,” and the mix CD compilation “Global Groove Dance 4″ through Centaur Entertainment. Global Groove: Dance 4 is available at theoutclub.com, Amazon, iTunes and your favorite retailer.

Their remixes include six #1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart singles and hits like Yoko Ono’s “Talking To The Universe”, “Beyonce’s “Best Thing I Never Had”, Lolene’s “Rich”, Tony Moran featuring Frenchie Davis’ “You Are”, Jennifer Lopez “Louboutins”, Jason Dottley’s “Hit Play”, Chris Salvatore’s “Dirty Love”, Kaden’s “A Boy Like Me” Margo’s “Get Back”, and Josie Cotton’s “Johnny Are You Queer”, Kristine W’s  “Never, Be Alright” and Erin Hamilton’s  “Control Yourself”.

The twins received the Weho Award for Outstanding DJ and have been dj’ing professionally since the late ’90s. They continue to spin at hot clubs, parties, and star-studded events. Originally from Rhode Island, Doug and Derek developed a passion for music at a very young age. They inherited their rhythm and love of performing from their parents, who are in a rock band called Fortune. Their mom sings and Dad plays drums. The twins grew up dancing and playing music so it was no surprise when they decided to take on dj’ing, choreographing, dancing, and remixing professionally.

At the same time the Perry Twins began spinning at clubs they started their own radio mixshow, “Dance Planet,” which aired for five years in New England. During that time, Derek and Doug’s dance troupe of the same name performed throughout New York and the East Coast at concerts, clubs, and Pride events. Their twintastic mixshows can now be heard internationally on many radio stations, including their own Dance Planet Radio (www.perrytwinsradio.com).

Doug and Derek’s recent DJ appearances include The GLAAD Awards, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Adrienne Maloof Event, the Black and White Ball NYE (New York, NY), Hydrate (Chicago, IL), Quo (New York), Unity (Montreal), Celebrities Nightclub (Vancouver), Red Dress Party (Seattle), The Factory (LA), Fresh (San Francisco), Tracks (Denver), The Mirage (Las Vegas), Vdara (Las Vegas), Krave (Las Vegas), Baydance (Fire Island), Nation (Mexico), LOGO’s NewNowNext Concert Series, Winter Party Miami, Fire Island’s Ascension Weekend, Wonderworld (Orlando, FL), Infinita (Madrid, Spain), and Purple Party (Dallas, TX).

www.facebook.com/perrytwins
www.twitter.com/perrytwins
www.perrytwinsradio.com
http://perrytwins.podomatic.com/
http://soundcloud.com/perrytwins

 

The Perry Twins Top 10

1. Rihanna – Where Have You Been
2. Kat Graham – Put Your Graffiti on Me
3. Amy Weber – Let It Rain (Perry Twins Remix)
4. Tiesto & Wolfgang Gartner featuring Luciana – We Own the Night
5. Jennifer Lopez – Dance Again
6. Nicki Minaj – Pound the Alarm
7. Neon Hitch – F U Betta
8. Reese Albritton – Prince of Dance (Perry Twins Remix)
9. Katharine McPhee – Touch Me
10. Eva Simons – I Don’t Like You

Amy Weber – Let It Rain – Perry Twins Club Mix


Upcoming Dates

Saturday, May 19: Long Beach Pride Festival, Long Beach, CA
Thursday, June 7: Prince of Dance Record Release Party at The Abbey, West Hollywood, CA
Saturday, June 9: LA Pride Festival, West Hollywood, CA
Friday, June 22: Purr Nightclub Pride Kickoff, Seattle, WA
Sunday, June 24: Dance on the Pier, New York, NY

About Centaur Music

Centaur Music is the premiere record label specializing in dance and pop music with an emphasis on gay and lesbian artists. Celebrating 15 years in business, Centaur Music is proud to have been the first indie to receive a Grammy Award nomination for Best Dance Song with “When Will You Learn” by Boy George. Centaur Music is also the premiere producer of benefit/charity albums and the top choice of gay consumers since 1997, introducing some of the nation’s most popular CD brands including Global Groove, Party Groove, Pride, Fire Island Classics and Dance With Angels.  Centaur Music also specializes in soundtracks to gay films including such films as “Latter Days,” “Circuit” and “Kiss The Bride.” Centaur is also responsible for production, marketing and distribution of the new “it” series “POPular”™


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Charlie’s Angel: Matthew Zink Wants to Get You Wet

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May 14, 2012 Gay Celebrities, Gay Culture, Gay Fashion, Gay Fitness, Gay Grooming

MMatthew Zink might be one of the hottest swimwear designers around, he might be hot himself, and he might be in an industry associated with cold people and colder attitudes. Talking to the 30-year-old designer of Charlie by Matthew Zink, though, is like having a conversation with a kid at a carnival. His rapid-fire sentences are punctuated with his love of design, his love of swimwear, his Tiger Beat-like love of gay icons—“I live and die for Ricky Martin”—and his passion for the fashion of the 1970s.

“I’m a slave to the seventies,” says Zink. “It wasn’t just about the clothes; there was so much more. There are guys now who have amazing bodies and they are so critical of themselves. We need to smile more and feel better about our bodies. There was a joyfulness to the seventies that was so intoxicating. I want everyone to look like Richard Gere in American Gigolo. I love a guy in a white T-shirt, blue jeans, and a button-down shirt. I respond to someone who walks into a room and you notice them, not the clothes.”

Zink isn’t dismissing fashion, he’s endorsing the Halston/Liza/Bianca mantra that you wear the clothes; not the other way around.

“When you’re in a simple swimsuit and someone says you look great, you get the compliment, not the swimwear,” says Zink. “Keeping it simple and straightforward allows you to like it more. You want to be there as a fixture, not as an element in the room.” Perhaps most important, adds Zink, “It’s the most naked you’ll ever be out in public.”

Zink, who also has a swimwear line for women, started out as a designer for Victoria Secret, worked for Liz Claiborne, and soon set out to build his own sexy suits. “I had so many girlfriends say to me, ‘I can’t find a simple black bikini,’” says Zink, adding “I couldn’t find swimwear for me.” Zink started Charlie in April 2010, and then showed it in July. (The name, he says, is his muse for both men and woman … and he adores the Shelley Hack “Charlie Perfume” ads from, yes, the ‘70s.)

“Our men’s line is targeted for the gay customer,” says Zink. “I don’t want to say the gays found me; I designed the suits for the gay customer. I thought, ‘What kind of swimwear can I find for my community?’ Where is the product for the gay man who wants to feel sexy and be timeless?”

Charlie’s styles, which range from brief to mini-cut to a boxer fit, are meant to show off a guy’s best assets, even if Zink’s stuff isn’t typical banana hammock couture. When he started, “You could go really over the top, or really revealing, or you had to be Preppie and it had to be a board short,” he says. Zink’s cuts are higher because “If you don’t have a six-pack you still probably have good legs.” He sums up his love for the briefer cuts simply: “I love a tan line.”

Don’t expect to see Zink flaunting his own wares in ad campaigns (“It’s more rewarding to see the bathing suit on someone else”), but do expect him to continue celebrating his beloved mentors and muses. “I’m mad for the Olympics, and in the Resorts, 2013, Collection, I’m paying tribute to Gianni Versace and Greg Louganis.”

Lest you think Matthew’s sexy suits are just for show, Zink also gave me a lesson on swimwear care. To keep your suit from falling off when you plunge, “the drawstring is what usually secures, and you size down for performance.” Once your suit’s off for the right reason, “hand wash and lay down flat, because chlorine and saltwater are so bad. A dryer and a washer will also ruin your swimwear. It’s the difference between your suit lasting one season or three.”

But if you can’t wait that long to get your next Charlie fix, Zink will gladly find something that suits your style. :)

For more information, visit the Charlie website, follow Matthew Zink on Twitter, catch him on facebook, or go to Pinterest. Model photographs by Seth Hutchinson. Photo of Matthew Zink: Kevin McDermott.


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Cinema Guyd: Burton Lights Up with “Dark Shadows”

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May 14, 2012 Gay Celebrities, Gay Movies, Gay Pop Culture

 

If you already love or hate Tim Burton, Dark Shadows won’t change your mind. I’d call him an acquired taste, but things seem to be going in the opposite direction—a retired taste? People are losing tolerance for his baroque whimsey. The reviews for this latest film are fairly rotten. Even though I’m in the love-him camp, I was primed for disappointment. I am happy to report start-to-finish delight.

The movie has a unique mood, even for Burton. It’s based on a supernatural soap opera from the ’70s (say that 10 times fast!) about a cursed but wealthy Maine family. The players take the cheesy melodrama with dead seriousness, which only adds to the comedy. Depp, in particular, is hilarious as an earnest family man who happens to be a vampire. He’s been coffined up for a couple of centuries but is unearthed in the early ’70s by a crew digging the foundation for a McDonald’s. In his frock coat and Englishy manners he’s like a dandy glam rock star washed up from swinging London. He sort of fits right in. And yet the film still finds some Austin-Powers-type humor in the clash of time frames, like when Depp tries to free Karen Carpenter from the television. Out, tiny songstress!

Burton has meshed his signature style with the look and feel of a ’70s Super-8 home movie, bleached-out contrast and ultra-saturated colour. Even the credit fonts reminded me of Billy Jack, or some other counterculture B-movie of the era.

Burton’s visual delights can fall flat if there isn’t a story to prop them up. Mars Attacks! was awful; Nightmare Before Christmas (which he produced), Alice, and Corpse Bride, not great despite the glorious design; Big Fish and Sleepy Hollow only intermittently perfect. This script, by the writer of Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, is well-oiled, the cliches enlivened by wonderful dialogue. The actors eat it up. And not just Depp! Michelle Pfieffer (say that 10 times fast) as the family matriarch is regal, and Eva Green as the love-spurned witch is pure vicious sizzle.

Depp and Green rock out an over-heated sex scene, very much like the McKellen-Lee magic duel from Two Towers but simmered in Barry White funk. It’s my favorite sex scene since the manic splicing moment from Guy Ritchie’s Revolver.

On the whole, it’s one of Burton’s best, topped only by Edward Scissorhands. But if you don’t like him, you won’t like it. He’s not gonna change and make a restrained and realistic drama about social issues. No one in Hollywood approached him to direct The Help. Could you imagine Depp as a black maid? Actually, I could. Maybe that would free our amazing actresses of Color from having to play servants.

The only thing that didn’t work was the Helena Bonham Carter role. Everything’s wrong. Her hair. Her costumes. Her American accent. Her relationship to the surrounding characters. Maybe they squeezed her in cause she’s the missus. I ban her from the next three Burton movies. She’s such a great actress she can get up to her own brand of mischief. Unfortunately, there’s a hint at the end of the movie that she might drive the sequel. However, if the stinking reviews keep people away, that’s not going to be an issue.

In the meantime, suck it up, park your cynicism, and hop on the groovy gloom train.


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GuySpy’s Private Eye: When Good Writers Go Bad

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May 13, 2012 Gay News, Gay Politics, Guyds
Who knew that GuySpy.com would so quickly be the center of a controversy … from within our own ranks!

No sooner had we hired writer Brett Edward Stout as our Opinion Guyd than an ugly, ugly (and yet quite hot) semi-nude photo of the former Marine went viral on our ass. Queerty, Towleroad, Accidental Bears, and  Guys with iPhones all posted the offending shot. We are sickened, sickened that Mr. Stout did not inform us of the picture, and we were left in the dust, while these hack, soft-core, shameless publications got all the gay glory.

Of course, to set the record straight, and only to set the record straight, we feel that it is our duty to repost the offending photograph, below. I know … it’s so offensive that you can’t not stare. (While you’re at it, you might as well download our new GuySpy app! for iPhone and Android.) Hey, these guys are hot, and rumor has it tawdry Stout hangs out waiting for, um, submission “requests.”

The view on this photo does not necessarily reflect the other views that GuySpy.com posts.

Turns out, Mr. Stout, unbeknownst to us, was shamelessy promoting his book Sugar-baby Bridge, in a way not seen since Demi Moore shamelessly promoted pregnancy on the cover of “Vanity Fair.” What’s next? Me shamelessly promoting my self-titled book of essays! Never. (By the way, if you purchase now,  it’s only $5.99!)

As the Senior Editor for GuySpy.com (the multi-media site that has over 400,000 registered users; yes, 400 THOUSAND), I must personally apologize for a staff member putting himself, quite literally, in front of tasteful journalism. We do not condone such behavior, in the same way that we do not condone promoting our piece on a naked Dean Monroe or a pant-inducing Mark Deklin.

And as Greek Gods are our witnesses, we will never stoop to posting photos of cute men naked just to get you to take a look. That is not our style!

 

You know, like this photo.

Fondest Regards,

David Toussaint (www.davidtoussaint.com), whose next book comes out in October–email me at David@GuySpy.com for details!

PS: You can rest-assured that Brett has been punished severely. Once we edit the footage, we will post the video to prove it.


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Name that Ass Saturday

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May 13, 2012 Gay Model

After a long week, we are always excited for the weekend, and from now on we are going to have another reason to look forward to Saturday and Sunday: Name that Ass.

And today’s hottie, apart from being one of my favorite actors of all time, proves that.

This one-sided-smile handsome man was born in Palo Alto, California, on April 19, 1978. He grew up with his two younger brothers, Tom and Dave, the latter of whom is also an actor. He attended UCLA, majoring in English, but dropped out to pursue his acting dreams.

Don't you wish you could be that girl?

We first saw him on our television screens when he starred in Freaks and Geeks back in 1999, and although the show wasn’t a hit, it got him enough exposure to get the lead for the TNT movie James Dean. But it wasn’t till 2002 that he achieved worldwide fame, thanks to his role as Harry Osborn in Spider-Man.

From that moment on he became a media bomb: starring on Magazine Covers, Ad campaigns, host for SNL, and last year co-hosting the Oscars with Anne Hathaway.

We would skinny dip with him anytime

I mean, HELLOOO! Who wouldn’t want to showcase his beauty. This guy is not only ridiculously gorgeous and insanely sexy, but also has this “I don’t give a F***” attitude that could make anyone wet.

If you still haven’t figured out who this man is, here’s another clue: You would do “Whatever it Takes” to get “127 Hours” to tie him up and French kiss him, something the lucky Sean Penn already sort of did.

Jorge

Not only a pretty face

http://about.me/manchic


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