MUSIC NEWS: George Michael, David Guetta, Jennifer Hudson .

MODERN TONICModern Tonic - a blog that highlights gay-approved pop culture gems - delivers a weekly music column on Towleroad. (The place is presently being re-designed and will re-launch later this spring.)FEATURED NEW RELEASES: There're a hundred ways to pass your pop dollars these days, what with Extended Editions, Deluxe Editions, and Additional Special Extended Deluxe Editions of albums by your fave artists.

Often, it's just record companies bilking a gullible public. But George Michael's Faith (Special Edition) (out February 1) - two CDs, one DVD - is a worthwhile walk down memory lane with a 24-year-old book that was a zeitgeist-channeling pop phenomenon, turning a dimpled boy-band flyweight into a bona fide superstar. And it's where the kids who conceive of Michael as a chubby old toilet-trawling burnout learn their lesson about the gay Justin Timberlake of the '80s. Disc one is a re-mastered version of the original release and, except for the occasionally cheesy synth (we're thought of you, "Monkey"), it more than holds up - and actually sounds downright classic. The hand-clapping title track, the blue-eyed funk of the eternally horny "I Need Your Sex (Parts 1 & 2)", and the soul revelation of the breathy "Father Figure" we all love and love. But songs you haven`t heard in a long time, or may have forgotten, are but as strong, including the shoulda-been-a-monster "Hard Day" and, yes, the cheesy synth-laden "Monkey." The DVD is chockablock with videos, interviews, and various ephemera for fans, and disc two is hard on remixes, live tracks, and a tent-raising slice of funk called "Fantasy" we want was on the original album. Michael may well be by his prime - pop stars rarely get to surmount such lofty heights more than once - but let's respect the achievement that was - and yet is - Faith. David Guetta's the latest DJ turned chart-climbing superstar on the second of his 2009 release One Love. He rescued ex-Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland from The Fashion Show and put her stake in the clubs where she belongs, with the inescapable "When Love Takes Over," and he's worked frequently with former gospel singer, the openly gay Chris Willis. Plus he's never met a measure he doesn't - or you don't - love. One More Love (out today), a stop-gap collection that mostly includes previously-released tracks from One Love, features his current club-thumping single "Who's That Chick?" with Rihanna. "Missing You" with L.A. hip-hop artist Novel is remade from pounding floor-filler to non-stop stealth bomber - it's relentless in the better way possible. (Watch YouTube wunderkind Keenan Cahill take on a Guetta megamix here.)MUSIC NEWS:Jennifer Hudson will turn her sophomore album, I Remember Me, on March 22. Stream her new single here.