Happy new year to all who observe! For those of you unfamiliar with the Jewish calendar, this weekend marks Rosh Hoshanah, the new year, and next week will mark Yom Kippur, our day of repentance and desire to cleanse ourselves…
Americana has been more or less defined as country and roots music’s island of misfit toys — including queer country artists. But in the past decade, as I wrote for The Boot, Americana the genre has become a commercial juggernaut,…
(cw: mild homophobia) Last week, I wrote about Nashville’s reluctance to risk a dollar in the face of the unfamiliar. It wasn’t the most coherent so….sorry, but I think I got it a little more concise in my review of…
Howdy, New Yorkers! I am very bad at self-promotion and forgot to mention in last week’s roundup that I will be tabling at Hester Street Fair in the South Street Seaport (next to the Tin Building and all the old…
It seems like every time I go on vacation this summer there is a new embarrassing country music fiasco. Does my presence in New York City protect some kind of cosmic ley line that preserved order in country music??? There…
The Nashville Scene’s 2022 “Best New Music Festival” returns for its third year celebrating queer artists in Music City this weekend. Founded by artist and entrepreneur Sara Gougeon in 2021, Queerfest has continued growing and transforming each year thanks to…
I first experienced the Newport Folk Festival on my dad’s shoulders, impatient and sunburnt, completely unaware that I was seeing some of the most iconic folk performers of our time (The Indigo Girls! Joan Baez! Lucinda Williams! Patty Griffin!). I…
In this month’s episode of Rainbow Rodeo, trad country singer Julian Talamantez Brolaski discuss their time in Brooklyn in the 2010s: growing as an artist and a transmasc person. Brolaski was part of the circle of artists who helped create…
I’m back from my honeymoon and I’m here to tell you one thing: I hate music videos. Sorry — I know you guys spend a lot of money on them and, frankly, I’m pretty sure that’s how most people consume…
I’ve been thinking a lot about the evolution of allyship to LGBTQ people and representations of us. I had a friend who posted on social media a decade ago that so-called allies care more about marriage equality than queer folks.…