Fuck Yeah! Queer Music

This is my love letter to all the queer musicians out there, making art and kicking ass. If there's an artist you think I should know about, please let me know, I love new music! (I also reblog/post on general queer and trans stuff, radical news, and instances when the world is fucked, and when it isn't!)

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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

 

Wishbeard (formerly known as The Gaze) is a relatively new three piece out of Seattle that plays that dreamy indie rock all the kids are into these days. They are working on their first EP, so there are only a few rough demos available on bandcamp to listen to, but from those short samples, you can tell these guys are going to gain quite the following. They play indie in the way that was pioneered by acts like The Cure, and now is played by bands like Warpaint, newer Uh Huh Her, Bel Auburn, and many, many others. It’s based around simple, effects laden guitar lines and basic, driving beats. At its core, it’s relatively stripped down, but through pedals and some killer bass work, it becomes layered, danceable, and incredibly enjoyable. If you’re in the Seattle area, keep an eye out for this band, they’re looking to start playing more shows, and I can’t imagine going to see them would be a bad decision. Also, as explained to me by their bassist, they are called Wishbeard because sometimes you just wish you had a beard, a sentiment I fully support. Check ‘em out:http://www.facebook.com/Wishbeardhttp://wishbeard.bandcamp.com/

Wishbeard (formerly known as The Gaze) is a relatively new three piece out of Seattle that plays that dreamy indie rock all the kids are into these days. They are working on their first EP, so there are only a few rough demos available on bandcamp to listen to, but from those short samples, you can tell these guys are going to gain quite the following. They play indie in the way that was pioneered by acts like The Cure, and now is played by bands like Warpaint, newer Uh Huh Her, Bel Auburn, and many, many others. It’s based around simple, effects laden guitar lines and basic, driving beats. At its core, it’s relatively stripped down, but through pedals and some killer bass work, it becomes layered, danceable, and incredibly enjoyable. If you’re in the Seattle area, keep an eye out for this band, they’re looking to start playing more shows, and I can’t imagine going to see them would be a bad decision.

Also, as explained to me by their bassist, they are called Wishbeard because sometimes you just wish you had a beard, a sentiment I fully support.

Check ‘em out:
http://www.facebook.com/Wishbeard
http://wishbeard.bandcamp.com/

I reblogged this picture recently, not really aware of who the band was, but after a bit of goggling I’ve come to find that Mukilteo Fairies were awesome. They were only around for a year, from 1993-94 and they only released on EP and some random tracks for compilations or splits, but in that short time they definitely made a mark on queercore. Many describe them as a grindcore band, but they definitely seem to take far more influence from 80s hardcore punk than anything on the metal spectrum. The most obvious comparison I can draw is to Limp Wrist, a band that formed a few years later, but they both play this intense, uniquely queer brand of hardcore. Mukilteo Fairies played pretty much straight up hardcore punk, fast beats and power chords, with lead singer Joshua Plogue showing off a yelp-y scream reminiscent not only of 80s hardcore, but later 90s and 2000s screamo like Saetia and french band Daitro. The lyrics are undeniably, unabashedly queer; it’s confrontational music, as much hardcore is, but it also is the epitome of queercore, giving power back to the oppressed, if only just a bit, by playing this style of music dominated by cis, heterosexual, hyper-masculine, white men and giving queer people spaces to enjoy this kind of music. A few of their songs are available on Youtube, and some internet searching does yield a few more places to listen to them. Most of the members went on to form other musical projects, most notably drummer Jason Reece and his band …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.

I reblogged this picture recently, not really aware of who the band was, but after a bit of goggling I’ve come to find that Mukilteo Fairies were awesome.

They were only around for a year, from 1993-94 and they only released on EP and some random tracks for compilations or splits, but in that short time they definitely made a mark on queercore. Many describe them as a grindcore band, but they definitely seem to take far more influence from 80s hardcore punk than anything on the metal spectrum. The most obvious comparison I can draw is to Limp Wrist, a band that formed a few years later, but they both play this intense, uniquely queer brand of hardcore.

Mukilteo Fairies played pretty much straight up hardcore punk, fast beats and power chords, with lead singer Joshua Plogue showing off a yelp-y scream reminiscent not only of 80s hardcore, but later 90s and 2000s screamo like Saetia and french band Daitro. The lyrics are undeniably, unabashedly queer; it’s confrontational music, as much hardcore is, but it also is the epitome of queercore, giving power back to the oppressed, if only just a bit, by playing this style of music dominated by cis, heterosexual, hyper-masculine, white men and giving queer people spaces to enjoy this kind of music.

A few of their songs are available on Youtube, and some internet searching does yield a few more places to listen to them. Most of the members went on to form other musical projects, most notably drummer Jason Reece and his band …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.