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Portrait of Nan Macmillan

INTERVIEW: Nan Macmillan Revels In The Bounty of Queer Identity

Nan Macmillan brings a dreamy quality to her music, much like the subconscious truths that seep into our sleeping minds. It’s up to us if we recognize them when we wake up. The Charlottesville, VA singer-songwriter has no problem cutting to the core of the matter in her work,

Rita De Los Angeles Fantasizes on Queer Country Crooner "Slow Dancing"

Rita De Los Angeles’ latest country music dispatch arrives from Germany in the form of a tender waltz, “Slow Dancing.” De Los Angeles may be familiar to lesbians in San Franciso, New York, and LA for her cafe Little Frida’s Coffe House and her zine Female FYI. De Los

PREMIERE: Shannon Vetter Puts Up Romantic "Boundaries, Baby"

Shannon Vetter celebrates the sweet release of letting go the people who are bad for you on “Boundaries, Baby.” Vetter, who played the sax on their latest single, invokes a New Orleans second line as they celebrate the passing of a failed relationship. “Boundaries, Baby” is a fresh cut from

Rainbow Roundup: A Feeling I Belonged

Rainbow Roundup: A Feeling I Belonged

Read the full essay on the weekly Rainbow Rodeo newsletter — and get artist resources, events, and queer country news from around the web in your inbox! Before anything else, I want to give a huge thank you to Jeremy Leroux of Country Everywhere for patiently helping me tweak some backend

INTERVIEW: Spencer LaJoye Loves to Say the Queer Part Outloud

INTERVIEW: Spencer LaJoye Loves to Say the Queer Part Outloud

Spencer LaJoye does not shy away from saying what they really mean. That forthrightness is something we can expect from their album Shadow Puppets, out February 16. LaJoye is an East Coast singer-songwriter with Midwest roots, a classically trained violinist with a proclivity for Broadway vocals, and a student of

INTERVIEW: Experimental Folk Collective Middle Sattre Shatters Queer Shame in Powerful Album

INTERVIEW: Experimental Folk Collective Middle Sattre Shatters Queer Shame in Powerful Album

Austin’s queer folk collective Middle Sattre shatters queer shame in their powerful upcoming album, Tendencies, out tomorrow. Frontman Hunter Prueger grew up Mormon, filled with shame and embarrassment and rage. Tendencies illustrates Prueger’s journey, from shame to reconciliation with all the difficult emotions in between. Prueger’s experience

INTERVIEW: Two-Spirit Singer-Songwriter Marx Cassity Goes Electric on 2Sacred

INTERVIEW: Two-Spirit Singer-Songwriter Marx Cassity Goes Electric on 2Sacred

After a long hiatus from recording, Marx Cassity (Osage/Kaw) has returned with their electrified and electrifying indigiqueer synth folk album 2Sacred. (Coincidentally, we covered Marx’s 2014 album Songs From the Well earlier this month.) Cassity’s work is driven by their own commitment to decolonization, and how binary