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Rainbow Ruckus 7/23/24: Laura Jane Grace, Jett Holden, Keep for Cheap, and More!

Rainbow Ruckus 7/23/24: Laura Jane Grace, Jett Holden, Keep for Cheap, 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? TA Inskeep is generously keeping an archive of all music featured

Stephanie Lambring -- Hypocrite

Stephanie Lambring -- Hypocrite

Stephanie Lambring is the best songwriter you don’t know about. Lambring is an uncompromising lyricist, and she kneecaps us immediately with “Cover Girl,” a biting indictment of the beauty standards she was expected to upload when she first got to Nashville. It wasn’t until her stunning album Autonomy

Melissa Carper -- Borned in Ya

Melissa Carper -- Borned in Ya

Melissa Carper comes from a music-loving family where she was raised on roots music. The family record collection consisted of classics like Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, and Hank Williams, Sr. And once she made it to college, she was drawn to jazz vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald

PREMIERE: Edie McKenna Delivers a "Kick in the Shin"

Edie McKenna pulls no punches on the sunny pop hooks of “Kick in the Shin,” a spirited kiss-off to a toxic father. The Chicago-based singer-songwriter is probably best known for her project Modern Nun, but her upcoming EP For Edie is a solo affair that collects songs she wrote between

INTERVIEW: The Lower Aetna Unravel Mythology in the Pine Barrens

INTERVIEW: The Lower Aetna Unravel Mythology in the Pine Barrens

The Lower Aetna began as a lonely quarantine project by Dylan Gallimore. His previous band, the Philadelphia-based Honeyjar, had just taken an indefinite hiatus and Gallimore began to feverishly write — literally, since he was sick with COVID-19. After firing off a stadium rock-inspired album, Waiting for God to Turn on

Sadie Gustafson-Zook -- Where I Want to Be

Sadie Gustafson-Zook -- Where I Want to Be

Sadie Gustafson-Zook has an intriguingly off-kilter worldview on Where I Want to Be. This is an album for anyone who’s ever felt out of place — and could use the reassurance that they’re not the only one. Here, Gustafson-Zook demonstrates why she won the Kerrville Folk Festival’s 2022

Rainbow Rodeo 7/9: Melissa Ferrick, Izzy Heltai, Semler, and More!

Rainbow Rodeo 7/9: Melissa Ferrick, Izzy Heltai, Semler, 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? TK Inskeep is generously keeping an archive of all music featured