Rainbow Rodeo can pay contributors like KC thanks to readers like you! Sign up to our Patreon today to build queer country power! The most recent LP by Willi Carlisle, Critterland, is an engrossing musical voyage into a world both…
We last heard fro Large Brush Collection way before Rainbow Rodeo was even a website — when singer Nora Predey and Creekbed Carter Hogan spoke with us about her split EP with Creekbed Carter Hogan. Large Brush Collection’s music is…
Austin Lucas fights back against a crew of would-be bad guys in their new music video for “Black Me Out,” a cover of the invigorating song by Against Me! We spoke with Lucas when they first released Reinventing Against Me!,…
Avery Hellman uses their music project ISMAY to immerse the listener in a world of their childhood. We dive into a new album of alternative country and folk songs. I admit that I’ve never stayed in parts of rural California;…
Country Risqué aren’t afraid to talk about the things you’d rather avoid. On their new single “Depression Drawer,” the band glorifies one of our collectively sadder habits, sarcastic and goofy and biting all at the same time in a way…
There is something timely about Halfsies, the new album by Lizzie No. Just as winter snow is finally landing, Halfsies depicts the winter moments of one’s life: bitter endings with no sign of any relief on the horizon. Bitter, but…
Rainbow Rewind is a monthly column that brings older queer country albums to light. Marx (Marca) Cassity released this album in 2014. Marx, who is a trauma counselor, works under the name Marca in their counseling practice and Songs From…
North Carolina’s 2:00 AM Wake Up Call plays with y2k themes while forswearing the nostalgia that comes with on their single “No Nostalgia,” available on streaming everywhere tomorrow. 2:00 AM Wake Up Call (Micah Leith) is re-releasing their 2021 album…
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…
In their new video, Paisley Fields achieves a transcendent state amongst the masses at a rodeo. The song, “Over the Radio Waves,” was co-written with woozy, ’70s-rock-inspired Aaron Lee Tasjan, and the two make a graceful pair in this song,…