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Editor's Picks 10/23: Country Risqué, Zachary James, Ratskin Family Band

Editor's Picks 10/23: Country Risqué, Zachary James, Ratskin Family Band

Every week, Rainbow Rodeo editor Rachel Cholst picks the three best queer country albums of the week. This week features risky country music, heartfelt serenades, and country at its best: irreverent while grounded in tradition.

Madds Buckley -- A Simple Binary and a Complex Phrase

Madds Buckley -- A Simple Binary and a Complex Phrase

Madds Buckley creates a pastiche of hypnotic pop with her interrogation of humans and machines on A Simple Binary and a Complex Phrase.

Editor's Picks 10/16: Mary Bragg, VANCAMP, The Shandies

Editor's Picks 10/16: Mary Bragg, VANCAMP, The Shandies

Every week, Rainbow Rodeo editor Rachel Cholst picks the three best queer country albums of the week. This week features telling secrets to strangers, dangerous nostalgia, and family silences.

Orville Peck - Mule

Orville Peck - Mule

Bee Delores declares Orville Peck's new album, Mule, one of the best albums of 2026.

Joy Oladokun - Hope is a Heavy Thing

Joy Oladokun - Hope is a Heavy Thing

Bee Delores reviews Hope Is a Heavy Thing, the urgent new album from Joy Oladokun. "It's long overdue to actually listen to Black women about brutal reality," writes Dolores.

Editor's Picks 10/2: Jude Brothers, The Male Pattern, Katie Pruitt

Editor's Picks 10/2: Jude Brothers, The Male Pattern, Katie Pruitt

Every week, Rainbow Rodeo editor Rachel Cholst picks the three best queer country albums of the week. This week features sumptuous Appalachian explorations, tragicomic patriarchal characters, and a tidy little package to describe all of our messiness.

Fiver Trois -- Cleaning House

Fiver Trois -- Cleaning House

Fiver Trois spans the distance between jazz, country, and prog on the singular album Cleaning House -- showing vision that the band fearlessly explores, writes Richard Marcus