Recommendation: Patrick et les Brutes
Beck recommends…
This is a French garage-rock-dance band that has a genderqueer lead singer! Catchy music and ambiguous gender = sheer awesome.
Posted by Zory on March 28th, 2010 at 08:00 am
Beck recommends…
This is a French garage-rock-dance band that has a genderqueer lead singer! Catchy music and ambiguous gender = sheer awesome.
Zachary Bosch recommends…
This is some very lovely genderbending and cross-dressing from Chris Corner and Imogen Heap. What I especially like is that Imogen is wearing an actual, man-shaped suit. It would’ve been so easy to give her a feminised version, but they didn’t and it makes me happy :D They also gave her sideburns and everything!
And the song ain’t half bad either…
Pedro aka Strangelfreak recommends…
The mix of sublime gender-neutral aesthetics — if you guys haven’t seen this, it is a definite MUST! ^__^
ellis recommends…
Adhamh Roland is a guitar-strummin’, accordion-squeezing, whistling warbler who fancies reminiscing about the midwest while devising collective strategies for liberation. Adhamh is a founding member of the Riot Folk Collective, and has toured and created with Benchpress Burlesque (St. Louis’ radical multi-gendered, sex-positive, queer-positive, feminist feast of political performance art), The Tranny Roadshow, as well as many bicycle tours totaling over 3,500 miles of pedal-powered folk shows.
psuedony recommends…
Gender controversy seems to follow this lady, and I guess I’m so queer I don’t get it. But I love what she has to say about it:
“This is really who I am, and it took a long time to be okay with that… Maybe in high school you, Ellen, you feel discriminated against. Like you don’t fit in and you want to be like everyone else, but not really, and in the inside you want to be like Boy George – well, I did anyway. So I want my fans to know that it’s okay. Sometimes in life you don’t always feel like a winner, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it’s okay.”
A reader recommends…
Janelle Monáe is an amazing musician who has a distinctly queer sense of style. Her first album, Metropolis: The Chase Suite, is a wild trip in a science-fiction universe where the forbidden love is between androids and humans. Her lyrics are smart and engaging, and her vocal range is wild!
Kate recommends…
Chris Pureka changed my perception of gender. I heard she identified as genderqueer, but I had no idea what that was. Since then, I learned more and more. She’s totally amazing. Her laugh (well, giggle) doesn’t match her appearance. Her voice doesn’t sound like her laugh. She’s a genuine, intelligent, cool person that more people should know about. Hell, my slightly homophobic sister likes her.
Gazekei recommends…
Visual kei refers to a movement among Japanese musicians, that is characterized by the use of striking make-up, unusual hair styles and elaborate costumes, often, but not always, coupled with androgynous aesthetics. This picture is of the band An Cafe. They don’t make gender outwardly obvious but they also dont try to disguise their own. Most people involved in visual kei also use names that aren’t too masculine or feminine.
Adelai recommends…
Two tracks off Ben’s album The Rebirth of Venus—”Boy With A Barbie” and “I’m A Woman Too”—do a wonderful job of breaking the gender binary, which is awesome because, as far as I know, he identifies as cis and straight.
Ty recommends…
One part Sarah Adorable from Scream Club and one part Piper McKenzie which I have never heard of before, which is too bad because UGH that voice and those eyes and that style. What a hottie. They make a sexy and fabulous pair. A transguy and femme cisgendered girl duet. Eye candy, a good beat and some representation!
A reader recommends…
The Parenthetical Girls is a band with beautiful lyrics, and melodys and possibly the most beautiful male lead vocalist i’ve ever seen. They dont restrict the content of their songs to one gender and tend to sing about everything from childbirth to death by train.