Rainbow Ruckus 7/22: Diane King, Orville Peck and the Wiggles, Medium Build, and More!
This week's Rainbow Ruckus features that '90s country sweet spot, illicit drugs, natural highs, friendly purple dinosaurs, and unicorns!
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- Diane King hits that '90s country sweet spot with "Dangerous." It's a free-wheeling song that captures the power of two people in love.
- I turned to Reddit for these next couple tracks. Medium Build pens a pansexual ode to the people who facilitate his bad habits on "Drug Dealer"
- File this under "well I'll be damned" but Orville Peck and The Wiggles have leaned into camp with their twangy stomper "Friends of Dorothy." (The music video is delightful.)
- Alexander Ocotillo preaches to the choir with this country punk anthem of learning to rely on ourselves for salvation – not institutions that would make us feel pain and shame
- In his enigmatic 1974 folk song "The Unicorn," Peter Grudzien compares the dreariness of city life with the magic hiding just around the corner
