Country, Indie-grass, anti-folk
Through both music and film Actor Slash Model addresses issues of gender identity, gender performance and politics, a sex positive ideal, and the art making process.
hip hop
Los Angeles
Metahuman aka Kalil Cohen began recording and interpreting the world around him at the age of 5, with meticulously detailed travel journals of family trips. With an insatiable drive to make sense of life through rhythm and rhyme, Metahuman soon began self-publishing his poetry, although his grandmother was his only customer for some time. Many years later, Metahuman became known as a hip-hop lyricist, filmmaker, speaker and performance poet, a political dissident, radical transsexual activist, autobiographical confessionalist, outspoken social misfit, friend, lover, and teacher. Metahuman is many things to many people, as he continues to make sense of the world through his art.
Queer Cabaret Wordrock
Brooklyn, NY
Twilight of the Idle is the project of pianist, songwriter, and vocalist Ricky Itai Gal* accompanied on drums by Lindsay Haughton. Twilight of the Idle plays music that incorporates elements of rock, jazz, and cabaret, with spoken words, timing experimentation and a little bit of reggae-style keyboard. Ricky is a believer of the power of the pen, and uses music as a forum for political and social topics. (more…)
SynthPop/Countrty
London, UK
Breaking Communications – The name for the band came from a song we wrote called “breakdown in communication” as a sort of homage to the Led Zeppelin track “Communication Breakdown” (… see, “then it’s not just a clever name”) (more…)
alt-rock-folk-jazz-classical
- London, UK
Diana is a performing composer and musician playing Piano Violin & Guitar. She currently plays with the Rock/Roots band Elephant Shelf and also the Delta Ladies who mix roots acoustic music and electronica.
Glitter Twang
San Francisco, CA
Shawna Virago is celebrated as a transgender pioneer in music, filmmaking and activism. Miss Virago is a singer/songwriter whose music twists together roots rock and folk-punk, creating anthems for a new generation. A transsexual feminist icon for the Twenty First Century, Virago is a wordsmith in the troubadour tradition whose songs are slice-of-life windows into queer and transgender life. Her piercing observations about survival in a predatory world, sticking up for the underdog, queer love and gender outlaws are backed by the bittersweetness of her steady acoustic guitar. (more…)
Electro-Psychedelic Rock
Portland, OR
Sunofcain, Adam Cain’s brainchild band started out in his apartment with a drum machine and a small PA. Adam’s music experience came from 10 years in the school band playing trumpet and mellophone while teaching himself the drums on his brother’s kit when he got home from school.
indie pop / alt rock
Lenny Zenith as a seminal New Orleans experimental power- pop / new-wave artist performing in New Orleans, LA throughout the 1980’s. Lenny Zenith started RZA just out of High school and quickly became a staple on the burgeoning New Orleans, punk-pop, new-wave scene, noted for their innovated shows w/ added performative elements. Lenny’s vocal style and writing were equally influenced by artists as diverse as Leigh ‘Little Queenie’ Harris, James Booker, Elvis Costello, and the Sex Pistols.
Rock
Austin Texas
Katy Koonce is the front person for the Austin Texas queer rock band Butch County. Koonce is a trans-identified psychotherapist in Austin and has played with TX gender warriors, Raunchy Reckless and the Amazons, who first passed from the spiritual realm into the physical world of Austin, TX in March of 1999. Since their momentous inception, this unique tribe of Xena-inspired rockers battled in the name of queer rock love above and beyond the Lone Star State.
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Artist, Musician – Old Country
Chastine Crystal Patterson is an artist in wood and engraving, teaching art, as well as performing and writing music. She has been blessed for 63 years with bringing this alive with a strong passion for music, as well as the performing arts.
Let’s Rock Together!
That’s right folks! We are at it again!
Announcing the Call for Submissions for the 2nd Trans-Genre Compilation CD! (set to release Jan. 2010)
What We’re Looking for:
- Musicians
- Bands
- Spoken Word
- Storytelling
- other Audio
- Artists
- Graphic Designers
…to showcase their amazing talent on the next Trans-Genre Compilation CD!
Moody Folk Rock
Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, StormMiguel Florez is a Mexican aMaricon singer/songwriter, QueErotic performance artist, and live tranny sex show producer. Sometimes he does these things all at once. As a co-creator of Trans as Fuck and occasional leader of queer ritual, he is learning how to integrate trans and POC activism with sexiness and connection to Mama Earth.
Folk, poetry, spoken word
queercore/punk
Minneapolis, MN
Tough Tough Skin takes the stage with a punk sensibility and a strong nod to the Homocore bands of the 90s. (more…)
Musician: freak folk
a stick and a stone weaves minimalist instrumentation, layered rhythms, and inventive string-plucked harmonies, always behind a persistent folk backbone. Most recognized for his dynamic and distinctive voice, songwriter elliott harvey sings stories of family, religion, and philadelphia, with raw lyrics described as brutally honest poetry.
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