Melodic-pop Alt-cuntry, folk-punk
Dalice Malice (A.K.A. Dalice Marie) is the internationally ignored Cuntry/Anarcho/Queercore/Folk songsstress currently located in Chicago. In January 2005 she was signed to DeadWait Records (Mt. Pleasant, MI) and released two full length albums (27Remastered and In Case You Haven’t Heard) under the name VanessaMarie. (more…)
Nowadays my stage name is WALKI’s MONSTER. I have performed in Europe and in Canada. I am a musician, a writer, an artist and a photographer. My style of music may vary from one song to the next, goth, rock, blues, alternative, experimental. I was told many times that gender was biological, but I cannot identify with any gender. One label I’ll accept is “drag king”. WALKI’s MONSTER takes no prisoner.
Singapore born transgendered jazz fusion guitarist and new music composer, Domina Catrina Lee remains an enigma. Her work has been called ‘transcendent’ and ‘intriguing’ but has yet to build a sufficient following. An artist deserving much wider attention she works constantly and untiringly on her art and updates her growing body of work available online.
Classic Rock & Blues
Too Much Information (TMI) plays the music of the “post-Boomer generation”—70s and 80s classic rock—as well as a mix of older and newer hits. The band covers a wide range of artists, from The Eagles and Eric Clapton to Bonnie Raitt and The B52s. They have a special knack for blues by way of Muddy Waters and Big Mamma Thornton, and a growing list of mixed-genre original tunes. Their musical versatility is apparent in every set. Not only do they play a wide range of pop, rock, funk, and blues, but five of the six take the main mic from time to time. (more…)
Writer, Rapper, Story-teller
Red Durkin, from Raleigh, North Carolina, has toured extensively with the Tranny Roadshow, written and illustrated nine of her own zines, and wormed her way into the likes of Punk Planet magazine and the Advocate. A proud, mouthy southerner, Red brings her charming cleverness to everything she does and often carries herself on wit alone. (more…)
Classical Music (Pipe/Classical Organ)
Desiree Hines, a native of Jackson, Mississippi, is well on her way to being one of the worlds most visible African American Women who is a Classical/Pipe Organist. Miss Hines began her transition from Male To Female at the age of 22, leaving Mississippi for Seattle-Tacoma, Washington.
poetry, music
oakland, ca
Performer/author/musician solidad decosta is an uppity Portuguese woman who isn’t afraid to claim her black Latina maternal ancestry. Equal parts street journalist, storyteller and crone-ta-be with Leo moon credentials, her work encompasses the why and where of life outside the boxes in a label obsessed world, and the what, when, who and how of everything else.
indie kind of homo hop, electro, indie folk, cyberpunk doom metal, pop
Got a spiritual core which I like to keep in touch with, especially through music. Previously known as data-boy, better known these days as astottara, which I play all styles under – from jamming a guitar with sweet melodies, to electro chaos, to more poppy rap kind of stuff. (more…)
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.
Brooklyn, NY
Folk-blues piano rocker Ricky Riot writes songs about the joys and sorrows of being Queer. He released two albums under his previous band’s name, Twilight of the Idle. The debut album, “Modesty,” features his many different sides: heartfelt spoken-word pieces and timing experimentation lightened by bluesy cabaret. His second album, “The Only Queers In The Room,” is upbeat and socially conscious, with anthemic hooks to sing along to and collaborative songs, including poet Jan Clausen’s “If Peace Breaks Out”.
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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.
