Queer Your Ears May 2019: New & Upcoming Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
I feel like we have some deeper, more interesting, more contemplative stuff here at Queer Your Ears this month.
10 Summer Tracks for Girls Who Want Girls
This summer I want to kiss girls. Girls sticky with lipgloss, girls purple with lipstain, girls sweet with cherry chapstick. I dream about kissing girls in my car (front or back seat). I dream about kissing them in the shade or in the sun. We are always a little bit sweaty and smelling like grass. We are always kissing to music.
Queer Your Ears April 2019: New Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
It’s a great time to be queer and/or trans music fan! There was SO MUCH incredible music to cover this month.
Songs to Make You Cry in the Grocery Store, as Ranked Compared to “Fast Car”
A selection of emotionally devastating songs I live in fear of having to emotionally process in public without warning at CVS.
Queer Your Ears March 2019: New & Upcoming Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
We’ve got a good mix of tunes here this month: some hip-hop and EDM if you’re ready to bounce off that winter chill, some intense vibes and chill folk if you still want to hibernate for a bit — and of course a bunch in between.
The Harassment of Young M.A and Including Black Butches When We Talk About Violence
Jokes that make violence appear innocuous is how we get dead.
Sister Duo REYNA Is Bringing You Queer Pop Perfection from the Midwest
Milwaukee based REYNA (Victoriah and Hannah Gabriela Banuelos) has some perfectly crafted queer pop you’ll love, and they’re gearing up for their biggest year yet.
A Playlist to End The Longest Black History Month EVER. Let’s Party.
I’m ready to kiss the last hours of the longest 28 days on record away with a f*cking party and a playlist full of bangers!
10 Times Lady Gaga Murdered Us On Live Television, For Example At the 2019 Oscars Last Night
Nobody plays a piano on a stage like Lady Gaga plays a piano on a stage!
Queer Your Ears: Music From Queer & Trans Artists You May Have Missed
Here’s a bunch of rapid-fire reviews to cover albums, songs, and EPs that may have escaped your notice in 2018.
Queer Your Ears: New Music by Queer & Trans Artists from February 2019
This month, we have some new queer indie love songs! Too late for your V-Day playlists, but still always welcome.
Mal Blum Invites You To Karaoke With Their New Single “Things Still Left To Say”
Sometimes the hardest part of being a person with a body is admitting how hard it is in the first place. So it goes in the newest single from Mal Blum, rock musician, friend of Autostraddle/A-Camp, and all around cool human.
Janelle Monáe, Brandi Carlile, Lady Gaga and St. Vincent Gayed Up the 2019 Grammys
Plus a moving tribute to Dolly Parton performed, of course, by Dolly Parton.
Queer Your Ears: New Music by Queer & Trans Artists from January 2019
This month, there are some wintry tracks for relaxing and looking out the window at a rainy day, as well as some upbeat stuff for breaking out of the doldrums. And a bunch of stuff in between.
Angels Make Love: Lena Waithe Packs Hot Queer Sex Into Andy Allo’s New Music Video
This Lena Waithe produced music video features queer (and straight) couples of all races, genders, and presentations allllll tangled up in each other.
Pansexual Iraqi-Syrian Musician Wafia Doesn’t Have to Explain Herself
Wafia and I chatted about being brown, queer, Muslim, and how those things influence her as an artist.
VIDEO PREMIERE: Alex G’s New Music Video, ‘Pray It Away,’ Creates Her Own Salvation
“Honestly, it’s for younger me who really needed to know that you could be queer and loved by God at the same time.”
Stories About Beyoncé That Are Really About the First Girl I Ever Loved
“I never could explain why my heart pounded when her soft hands reached out for mine. Why it felt like I was the only girl in the world, singing with her at the top of my lungs. The way my eyes would nervously glance down at her chest in that purple lace bra and white tank top. Until I could.”
For Your Consideration: Weekly Karaoke
Once you start going to karaoke every week, you can process your emotions in real-time via song just like a character in a movie musical.
For Your Consideration: Repeat One
Listening to the same song on a ceaseless loop is intensely satisfying.