Rainbow Ruckus 6/10: Adeem the Artist, Kate Nash, Ryan Cassata, and More!
This week's rainbow ruckus features star-crossed friendships, reconciliation, acceptance, and a fuck-you to TERFs.
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First up, Lydia Loveless is eschewing streaming services, but that doesn't make their latest string of singles less intriguing. On this one, Loveless inhabits the world-weary dissolution of an Italian lounge chanteuse.
- Adeem the Artist has been going through it lately, as can be alluded to in their latest, "Cowards Together." The song is sweetly vulnerable, a prayer of hope as life forces two people apart.
- Kate Nash takes anti-trans feminists to task with her buoyant new song "GERM." Half-sung, half-rapped, all truth, Nash's tirade is delicious.
- "Michael Told Me" finds S.G. Goodman reckoning with loss – both of people and rupture friendships. It's a dense song, one that speaks to Goodman's relentless pursuit of hiding nothing in her songs.
- By popular demand, Joel Brogon has set his pick-yourself-up-ditty "Put On Your Happy Face" on streaming. It's a live favorite, and it's easy to see why with the sweet twist in the chorus.
- Ryan Cassata gets bluesy with "QUEER american DREAM." The song evokes protest songs of the '70s, railing against the barriers that queer people face and the necessity of rejecting the American Dream.
