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…
Jessye DeSilva returns with a mellow folk song about the dangers of white supremacist culture on “Gallows Tree.” While DeSilva’s Renovations approached similar material with fiery wrath, justified fury at a society that refuses to repent of its sins. But,…
Sometimes, New York is just a small town. I met Damon Beirne while standing online outside a party for FlameCon, the queer comic book convention, back in 2015 or so. We hung out a few times after that but life…
This isn’t Jessye DeSilva’s first Rainbow Rodeo! The non-binary singer-songwriter was the very first guest on this podcast, and we’re thrilled to have them back. In this episode, we talk about how DeSilva is setting intentions and seeing them through,…
I haven’t had much juice for these weekly recaps lately because I was busy working on this article for the Nashville Scene, which is about the transphobic incidents at Americanafest and the AMA’s response to it. I am very grateful…
To be fair, I’m writing this at 8 AM before I head out for the long weekend. It’s entirely possible that the Americana Music Association (AMA) will release something potentially embarrassing on the cusp of a long weekend when people…
Something was in the water in the Southeast last weekend because, I tell ya, the Devil was hard at work. Last Thursday, gay country singer Adam Mac was disinvited from his hometown Tobacco Festival who had “questions about what kind…
Jessye DeSilva brings their special brand of arena rock melancholy to the Don Henley classic “Boys of Summer.” It’s a fighting time of year to put this one out, as school is underway and autumn (in theory) begins to unfurl.…
Americana has been more or less defined as country and roots music’s island of misfit toys — including queer country artists. But in the past decade, as I wrote for The Boot, Americana the genre has become a commercial juggernaut,…
Jessye DeSilva lays all the cards on the table on Renovations. The nonbinary singer-songwriter’s sophomore effort swirls with passion, a panoramic album that details DeSilva’s anger and exhaustion with constantly pushing against constraints – those imposed by society and by…