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:
…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.
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.
Performance Artist/Vocalist/Drag King Extraordinaire
Syd Deucer is the Genderbent’s Gent. Hailing from Milwaukee, WI Syd had been performing for packed halls and intimate spaces with The Miltown Kings for more than 4 years. Syd began his Drag King career at the age of 7 when he would don a top hat, cane, and spats to perform in front of his family in the living room.
music/performance/poetry/martial arts/
Ryka Aoki de la Cruz is a writer, composer, chemist, black belt, and moonshiner who has recently featured at the National Queer Arts Festival, the National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival, Ladyfest South 2007, Atlanta Pride, UCLA’s OutCRY, and Fresh Meat.
Writer, Artist, Musician
(Former female Sam Peterson describes his forays into a brave new world of masculinity via therapy and testosterone: one that involves “manfirmations,” sublime hilarity at the expense of self, and just general all’round trananigans. – ThaManSam.blogspot.com)
Sam Peterson is a Sam-of-all-trades. He’s tattooed AIDS activist/performance artist Diamanda Galas, been filmed by the Discovery Channel for their documentary on artists and piercing, been filmed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (TransGeneration, The Eyes of Tammy Faye), taught feminist porn-writing with Gynomite!, escaped from a cult, and played guitar at CBGBs. And that was before he manned-up!
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Power Pop & Garage Rock. Multimedia Performance
Baltimore, MD
Citizen Rahne Alexander is a songwriter & multimedia performing artist from Baltimore. She is the frontwoman for the all-girl garage band, The Degenerettes. (more…)
Singer, Songwriter, and Guitar playing poet.
Joshua Aidan Benscoter is a 29 year old trans man, living in the St. Louis metro area, soon to be living right smack in downtown. Josh has been playing guitar, writing music, and singing for the past 15 years, has played at numerous open mic nights and has had three songs professionally recorded at shock city studios in St. Louis Missouri. Josh is currently working on many new songs, and hopes to release an album sometime this year. Josh is also an aspiring painter and would love to show his works at some point in the future as well.
pop/r&b/dance
no single paragraph on a profile could begin to describe the bio of the cute little white guy who has now become his own one man boy band.
Folk, poetry, spoken word