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Keeping the Faith: A Conversation with Queer Christian Artist Semler
Semler broke boundaries as a queer artist in the Christian genre on iTunes. Their journey through faith and queer identity lead to an EP filled with songs that addresses these themes. Late Bloomer explores identity deeply finding the answer in humanity. I was able to...
Music Video Premiere: Luke Markinson “Tie Me Down”
Following the success of previous songs "Make Believe" and "Dead of Night", Luke Markinson returns with another pop banger. This song grapples with a toxic relationship in which someone feels powerless and trapped. However, as the song builds with futuristic...
Genre-bending, Mind-bending Magic: “Dreams” by Count Klassy and Sisco Kennedy
Full disclosure: I've heard almost nothing in the way of EDM or modern hip-hop. Although I've listened to over 7000 trance albums, all of them were comprised solely of remixes of "Sandstorm" by Darude (and I enjoyed every single one of them). My sorely incomplete...
LGBTQ Holiday Spirit: New Queer Holiday Cheer Playlist
Queer people need queer music. Not want, NEED. As a people who are often told they don't belong, are wrong, and are by artists who we can marginalized in industry and society, hearing music crafted by artists with relatable stories and experiences is an important...
Moms Love Celebrated in New Song from Toronto Artists
With the world still finding its way through a global pandemic and tensions increasing in multiple areas, there’s never been a better time for some positive energy to come our way. That’s just what Canadian music artists el Hashem and Count Klassy hope to do, except...
CRISP & CLASSY: Boom Bay
Video Premiere Fresh from releasing their debut album, sexually liberating music duo CRISP&CLASSY launch hot new music video BOOM BAY CRISP&CLASSY is an LGBTQIA+ & Feminist musical love affair based in East London, comprised of Scandinavian producer Kat...
Post-post-post-post-post-punk Is Awesome: The Academy of Sun Music Review
Review: "It Is Finished When It’s Destroyed" by The Academy of Sun Unlike whatever drivel the Pope or his servants are peddling, Nick Hudson's project The Academy of Sun has always sounded divinely inspired. But by which gods? Who knows? Hudson may as well be divinely...
Canadian LGBTQ Music Artists You Need To Know
Music will forever flourish. But music hasn't always been the most accepting or space space for marginalized communities. In truth it still isn't. Historically many artists have been encouraged to hide or remain silent about their sexuality and gender identity. And...
Up-and-Coming Asian LGBTQ+ Artists You Need to Know
At the time of this writing and for a good while before it, many people of political power and several media figureheads–I'll call them "racists"–have been painting COVID-19 as a distinctly Chinese virus. As a result, both Chinese and non-Chinese Asian people across...
Artist Don+ Turns Up the R&B Realness with ‘DonStar’
Don+ wow’s the world with his music talents, magnetic personality, smooth vocals and deep respect and appreciation of classic R&B.