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Jaime Wyatt -- Feel Good

Jaime Wyatt -- Feel Good

Jaime Wyatt’s capacity for transformation is on full display with her recent album Feel Good. For Wyatt, these reinventions are not an act of whimsy — it’s a matter of survival, as is made clear on this new cut. If Wyatt got famous for her brash outlaw country (literally

Julian Talamantez Brolaski -- It's Okay, Honey

Julian Talamantez Brolaski -- It's Okay, Honey

Julian Talamantez Brolaski understands rhythm. As a poet, their grasp of sound, rhythm, and silence permeates the traditional country sounds of It’s Okay, Honey. Brolaski was a guest a few months ago on the Rainbow Rodeo podcast, but as the Earth slowly wends its way towards the completion of

Jolie Holland -- Haunted Mountain

Jolie Holland -- Haunted Mountain

Jolie Holland is a powerful force on her recent album Haunted Mountain. As we learned in our interview, Holland is a deep thinker and her thirst for radical change comes through not just in her lyrics — but the music itself. Country music/Americana/what have you is typically a lyrics-first

Rainbow Ruckus 11/14: Hurray For the Riff Raff, Austin Lucas, Laura Jane Grace, and More!

Rainbow Ruckus 11/14: Hurray For the Riff Raff, Austin Lucas, Laura Jane Grace, and More!

Every week, Rainbow Rodeo brings you the best new queer country music! Listen to this playlist on Spotify! Thanks to Elliott for making a parallel list on Apple Music! Listen to the parallel list on Tidal. Missed a week? Thomas Inskeep is generously keeping an archive of all music featured

INTERVIEW: Rett Madison Knows It's Not Your Fault

INTERVIEW: Rett Madison Knows It's Not Your Fault

With the release of last week’s One For Jackie, Rett Madison has shown herself to be a hard-hitting and intimate songwriter. Contributor Asha Swann reviewed the album for Rainbow Rodeo, but now we have a chance to hear from Madison herself about the process of recording this stunner, dive

Episode 18: Jessye DeSilva

Episode 18: Jessye DeSilva

This isn’t Jessye DeSilva’s first Rainbow Rodeo! The non-binary singer-songwriter was the very first guest on this podcast, and we’re thrilled to have them back. In this episode, we talk about how DeSilva is setting intentions and seeing them through, their album Renovations as a document of

INTERVIEW: Lizzie No Is Ready to Burn Country Radio to the Ground

INTERVIEW: Lizzie No Is Ready to Burn Country Radio to the Ground

Lizzie No is — at last — ready to unleash her new album Halfsies in January — and it’ll be worth the wait. Her new song “The Heartbreak Store” hints at the storytelling to come, with No imagining a speakeasy for the weary and the lonely to soothe their hearts for a