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It’s not an exaggeration to call Lynn Breedlove one of America’s most important queer artists and most influential living storytellers. From his formative career as the lead singer of seminal dyke punk band Tribe 8 to his work as a trans activist in San Francisco founding the nonprofit rideshare service Homobiles, to his Lambda Literary Award-winning book and solo stage production Lynn Breedlove’s One Freak Show, Breedlove has used a singular voice to tell queer stories for over 30 years.
(Photo Credit: Daniel Foerste)

Lynn Breedlove

Music

Why I Like Dead Guys

Indigo De Souza has been making music since they were a child, and busked on the streets of downtown Asheville, North Carolina as a preteen. Born in 1997 to a white American artist mother and a black-Brazilian musician father, De Souza moved to a rural Appalachian mountain community after their parents’ divorce. Raised by their single mother who glued naked Barbie dolls to her flaming red pickup truck and protested various government actions in a conservative town of 2,000 people, Indigo felt like an outsider during their childhood. As they entered their teens and early 20s, they pursued music and navigated abandonment that triggered intense sadness and anxiety.
In 2018, their first studio album, I Love My Mom, was reissued by Saddle Creek, building their grassroots fanbase. Their second album, Any Shape You Take (2021) marked a turning point in De Souza’s career, earning Best New Music from Pitchfork. Following its release, they toured nationally and globally. All of This Will End (2023), their third album, also received strong critical praise with Atwood Magazine calling it “nothing short of brilliance.” De Souza regularly fills beloved venues and is known for their emotional and vulnerable live performances.
Indigo&#8217;s latest single &#8220;Come To God&#8221; is out now.

Indigo De Souza

Open The Floodgates

Bruce Driscoll is a producer, songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist. He is one-half of the duo Freedom Fry, and plays in the band Ivy.

Bruce Driscoll

What We Leave Behind

Devin S. Norris is a Los Angeles-based composer whose music has appeared in thousands of productions from M3GAN to Euphoria. He’s also created music for brands including Microsoft and Mercedes-Benz, as well as a T-Mobile Super Bowl commercial. He enjoys making music for his lo-fi artist project dv/sn and writing about the absurdity of the music industry.

Devin S. Norris

Gobbling Up the Musical Crumbs

KMRU is Joseph Kamaru, a Nairobi, Kenya-born, Berlin-based ambient musician.

KMRU

Echoes in the Moonlight

Raised between Lagos and London, Halima draws from a tri-continental well. From early explorations of folk and piano to later studies of jazz and R&amp;B, her sound pulls unapologetically from a broad musical spectrum. Halima&#8217;s work embodies the intersection of self-discovery, community, &amp; the complexity of life&#8217;s connections. Her debut record, SWEET TOOTH, is out now.

Halima

On Learning How to Tell Your Stories

Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Vish Khanna is a print journalist, podcast host and producer, and broadcaster, who has played in several bands and toured North America. He hosts a renowned topical interview podcast called Kreative Kontrol, is an Assistant Editor at Exclaim! Magazine, where he oversees the Comedy section, and he’s a co-organizer of the Long Winter arts series in Toronto, where he hosts a monthly talk show called Long Night with Vish Khanna. He served as the Content Director at CKUA, was a Host and Producer at CBC Radio 3 and an on-air columnist for the CBC Radio One program, The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers. He wrote a monthly arts column for the Guelph Mercury Tribune and his written work has also been featured in Pitchfork, NOW, the AV Club, the Globe and Mail, Spinner, Huffington Post, Signal to Noise, Aux, Eye Weekly, Chart Attack, Off the Shelf, and more. He began organizing and promoting concerts in Guelph in 1997 and did so sporadically until 2019 (including December’s annual Stay Out of the Mall mini-festival), under the moniker KYEO, which is a reference to a Fugazi song of the same name. He once co-hosted CFRU 93.3 FM’s The Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show! with his wife Michelle.

Vish Khanna

Podcasting Desires and Delusions, and Dedicating Yourself to Both

Spring Onion is the recording project of Philadelphia based musician Catherine Dwyer. Dwyer has played in numerous projects over a decade-long music career, including Remember Sports, 2nd Grade, and 22 Degree Halo. Her debut LP, Seated Figure, is out March 14 via Anything Bagel Records.

Spring Onion

Costco is a Holy Place

Cat Matthews is a singer-songwriter born and raised in Los Angeles. Her latest single, &#8220;Kaleidoscope Eyes,&#8221; is out now.
(Photo Credit: Margaret Leyva)

Cat Matthews

Cat Matthews Had to Kill Cat Matthews

Joel Gion has been the tambourine-playing frontman of The Brian Jonestown Massacre for the last 30 years. He&#8217;s THAT good at it. The Sundance Film Festival&#8217;s Grand-Jury Prize of 2004 was unanimously awarded to Dig!, a documentary based on The Brian Jonestown Massacre and friends/foes The Dandy Warhols. It quickly became a global cinematic sensation and catapulted BJM onto the world stage.

Joel Gion

Play the Techno Song!

Pleasure Systems is the New York-based sometimes-solo-project-sometimes-band helmed by Clarke Sondermann. His new single &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; is out now.

Pleasure Systems

Who Are We This Christmas?

Lindsey Troy is the singer/guitarist of the LA-based rock band Deap Vally and a writer. You can find her Substack, Troy on Tour, <a href="https://lindseytroy.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
(Photo Credit: James Dierx)

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