Pride Month 2012: Team Dresch – Personal Best

Pride Month 2012: Team Dresch – Personal Best

ByRachel CholstJun 26, 2012

Pride may have been this past weekend (inexplicably) but June isn’t over! And no discussion of queer music can be complete without everyone’s favorite queercore band, Team Dresch. Pandora’s probably one of the best things that happened to me in…

Pride Month: Dave End — How to Hold Your Own Hand

Pride Month: Dave End — How to Hold Your Own Hand

ByRachel CholstJun 22, 2012

Hey, you look like you could use a smile. Not because you look down, but because we could all use a little more lightheartedness. I think that’s where Dave End is coming from in his endearing acoustic pop.      The…

Pride Month 2012: Karen and the Sorrows — Ocean-Born Mary

Pride Month 2012: Karen and the Sorrows — Ocean-Born Mary

ByRachel CholstJun 21, 2012

Who says there’s no such thing as queer country? Every month, Karen and the Sorrows host a monthly party that showcases LGBTQ Americana artists. (Sadly, it’s in Brooklyn.) I made it to Branded last month, but by the time I…

Pride Month: Pansy Division

Pride Month: Pansy Division

ByRachel CholstJun 18, 2012

In a word, Pansy Division is an exercise in crassness. But as one of the first openly out queer punk rock bands, I’d say they earned that right. Coming out (so to speak) in the early ’90s, they had to…

Pride Month 2012: Amy Ray — Lung of Love

Pride Month 2012: Amy Ray — Lung of Love

ByRachel CholstJun 15, 2012

I’m just gonna put it out there that it took me a good long while for Amy Ray’s latest release to sink in. Here’s the thing: I like the Indigo Girls, but I always prefer Amy’s songs to Emily by…