#Pride Month

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PREMIEREEvangeline Gentle Celebrates “Ordinary People" with Acoustic Performance Video

That's what queer, gender-fluid Scottish-Canadian...

Annie White

Teddi Gold Honors Two Fathers With Bombastic Pride Anthem, 'Boom Boom'

Teddi Gold was six years old when her biological father came out. Little changed within the very modern family dynamic, but folks in the community began to see him differently. “All of a sudden, some parents would not let their kids come to my dad's house,” Gold tells Audiofemme. Throughout her...

Bee Scott

PREMIEREAm Taylor Offers Therapeutic Space-Rock on "Bright Yellow Sun"

Am Taylor's music is rich and contemplative, with intricate, dreamy guitar layers that mirror the lyrics' multiple meanings. Formerly the lead singer of the Atlanta band Sexual Side Effects, Taylor recently took a hiatus to launch their solo project, and today, they're releasing their second...

Annie White

PREMIEREFab the Duo Release "Our Love Is Resistance" EP to Celebrate Pride Month

During a time of upheaval and turmoil, Fab the Duo's music provides an uplifting message of resilience and perseverance. Today, the queer glam pop-rock duo is releasing their debut EP Our Love Is Resistance, which tackles LGBTQ rights and social justice more broadly on a political level, as well as...

Annie White

Sarah Hollins Reframes Queer Anthems with Personal Coming Out Story on “Starlight”

Los Angeles-based nondenominational megachurch Mosaic has a storied history in how it handles LGBTQ+ issues. Many queer individuals have professed an inviting and warm environment ─ but for singer-songwriter Sarah Hollins, and countless others, the experience was downright toxic. “[My friends and...

Bee Scott

After a Decade in the Club, Dance Loud Celebrate Debut LP "The Moment"

It’s what happens when an electronic duo whose career has been as energetic and careening as their namesake, has to pause — literally. Chicago-based artists Kristin Sanchez and Desereé Fawn Zimmerman were...

Micco Caporale

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Freddie is Ready for Their Closeup with Melanin Monroe EP

You know you are in for something good the moment that Oakland singer Freddie’s voice comes in on their EP opener “Oblivion.” Later in the song, their rich, evocative voice moves to deliver that ever-elusive diva wish: “I wanna be adored by ya/I wanna be adored by everyone.” It almost sounds...

Sophia Vaccaro

White Folks Rioted at Disco Demolition Night - But Didn't Silence Dance Music's Black and LGBTQ Voices

It was 79 degrees outside when local DJ Steve Dahl set fire to a crate of disco records in a publicity stunt so hot, it scorched music history. Disco Demolition Night happened in Chicago on July 12, 1979. But in many ways, the event doesn’t feel too distant. Blowing up records was supposed to boost...

Micco Caporale

ONLY NOISEHow Britney Spears Became My GenderQueer Muse

ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we’re shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, Jason Scott embraces their genderqueer identity with a little help from pop icon Britney Spears. Britney Spears’ ...Baby One More Time turned 20 years old in...

Bee Scott

PLAYING THE BAYFrankie Decaiza Hutchinson on Discwoman's SF Takeover

Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson, left, with Discwoman co-founders Emma Burgess-Olson and Christine McCharen-Tran. Courtesy Tyler Jones Photography. One of San Francisco’s most popular and long running clubs, 1015 Folsom, surrendered to an East Coast takeover hosted by Discwoman in honor of Pride Month....

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