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Rainbow Ruckus 10/18: Acacia Forgot, Adeem the Artist, Secret Emchy Society, and More!

Rainbow Ruckus 10/18: Acacia Forgot, Adeem the Artist, Secret Emchy Society, 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? Thomas Inskeep is generously keeping an archive of all music featured

Queer Country at Americanafest 2023

Queer Country at Americanafest 2023

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, thanks in no small part to the Americana Music Association.

Rainbow Roundup 8/18: On Pigeonholes

Rainbow Roundup 8/18: On Pigeonholes

It seems like every time I go on vacation this summer there is a new embarrassing country music fiasco. Does my presence in New York City protect some kind of cosmic ley line that preserved order in country music??? There is obviously a causal relationship at work here. With that