After a long hiatus from recording, Marx Cassity (Osage/Kaw) has returned with their electrified and electrifying indigiqueer synth folk album 2Sacred. (Coincidentally, we covered Marx’s 2014 album Songs From the Well earlier this month.) Cassity’s work is driven by their…
Hen in the Foxhouse (Elena Krell, who previously performed as Elias Krell) is a Latinx artist and a former gender studies professor at Vassar College. They reached out after our interview with Al Olender, who sang the praises of the…
Singer-songwriter Sarah Walk has traveled the world with her music, splitting her time between Minneapolis, New York, London, and now LA. Walk allows the songs to guide her, flitting between folk, art pop, electronic music, and all the spaces in…
Emmy Woods’ “million miles per hour” finds the sweet spot between Dolly Parton country vibes and the world weariness I tend to associate with Americana. Emmy has been writing songs for over 20 years, but her first collection of songs,…
Chicago’s Kelsey Montanez has never followed the comfortable trail. She won a high school talent contest and signed her first record contract, leaving home at 17. Her star rose quickly — and it’s no wonder, with self-assured performances that feel…
Sophia Eliana is a Denver-based singer-songwriter, dancer, and visual artist from Monterey, California. Eliana’s voice carries with self-assurance and a warm embrace of life’s uncertainties. Her songs are imbued with nature — as we see below, sense of place is…
Molly O’Leary charts the highs and lows of their own formidable (and ongoing) journey towards healing, self-acceptance, and self-actualization. Marigold was recorded in Nashville with producer (and Grammy-nominated songwriter in his own right) Will Hoge. As O’Leary explains in their…
Karen Pittelman, founder of Karen and the Sorrows and the Gay Ole Opry and Queer Country Monthly, is the reason you’re here today, reading this blog It’s not just that she’s an inspiration to me, personally, but she has done…
The Kentucky Gentlemen have been working tirelessly to share their music in Nashville. They call it the ten-year town and, after ten years of writing hundreds of songs and shaking hands at hundreds of events, the Gentlemen’s ship has come…
CJ Lawrence is a queer songwriter whose songs don’t pull any emotional punches. He’s currently recording his debut album Home, which draws on his experiences as a transsexual Kansan who was rejected by his family when he came out. He…