#TransMusicMonday (KatieDavies, she/her)
The year is 1999, Norma Jean is the heaviest, most abrasive thing I’ve ever heard. It’s 2024, and I’ve finally heard a band that challenges that. Their second album is slightly softer than their first, more of a sonic punch in the face vs a punch in the throat, but the introduction of conceits such as dynamics and melody tend to make the brutal bits feel even harder.
My first impression of the band was as sort of a thrashier Arch Enemy, but they’re a lot more diverse than that, splashing across several variations of metal after the explosive opening track. Here’s a track that highlights multiple aspects of what they can do.
Lee Teka is also a comic artist (often under E.L. Tedana), and you can help support them by buying this wonderful anthology of their work from ABO Comix: https://www.abocomix.com/store/p303/bodeofwork.html
Also, go check out #MutualAidMonday hosted by the fedi's very own Vantablack! In keeping with the work of Lee Teka, let's center mutual aid and community solidarity in every way we can. If you donate, Blahaj will award you the heart of trans pride! :BlobhajTransPrideHeart:
Why? Her music captures this amazing tension between delicate and powerful that holds one in the place of unresolved liminality. Not to mention, one of the few artists who has really coalesced what I want most from goth music.
(NOTE: I'll be taking a break from the fedi for several months after this, just want to leave you all with some great music in the meantime)
Artist: Farewell Utopia (Nikita, she/they)
Why? Because her music hits a lot of diverse synth vibes - chill synth, 80s horror synth, experimental noise - and is an amazing listen! Also...I may be dating her and she is brilliant and beautiful and creative, and go give her a listen already!
My favorite album of hers is "Indecision" (https://farewellutopia.bandcamp.com/album/indecision). It is heavily inspired by 70s and 80s horror soundtracks, reminding of the Goblins and other synthesizer heavy horror musical artists.
Why? Because Laura Jane Grace's music has been a companion to so many of us over the last decade, and she just released a new album!
Where to start?
"Dysphoria Hoodie" has quickly become a favorite of a lot of trans people, speaking to those days when shit is hard and we reach for our most comforting wardrobe item. https://youtu.be/miGIgIqcsXA?si=lF7OM95fzC49W7ZE
I'm also really loving "I'm Not A Cop." Really speaks to the way we start policing each other in leftist and queer communities, and reinstitute the same crap. https://youtu.be/nk5UnxIqgRQ?si=wPKtgzjXe7LdSJ6r
@curtisysmith I'm really loving that you keep sharing. You don't have to give me credit each time...though I kinda love being tagged because it makes sure I don't miss the new music! 😁
@JoscelynTransient since it says she/her in your description and I really like the song, so I'm gonna use the chance to boost this for #MusicWomenWednesday , too :blobcatsunglasses:
It’s #TransMusicMonday y’all. Created by @JoscelynTransient and brought to my attention by @VestigialLung recently. Today I’m posting an artist I saw a couple of years ago that really blew me away. This is P1nkstar, originally from Mexico and now based in Austin, TX.
Been a hot second thanks to a month of starting two different jobs and personal ups and downs.
Kicking this one off with a folk punk playlist inspired by preparing for my teaching about what the prison-industrial complex does to LGBTQIA+ folks.
Artist: Left at London
Song: Do You See Us?
Why? This line lives rent-free in my head, "Fuck you and the slavers that you work for! This songs for the people you killed!"
Artist: Ezra Furman
Song: Point Me Towards the Real
Why? The song is about someone being released from detention at a psychiatric hospital and what it means to reenter the world afterwards when you've been left behind by the world and have to start over.
I just noticed a musical hashtag I haven’t seen before, from @JoscelynTransient via @VestigialLung. It’s #TransMusicMonday and my first entry is local Denton/Dallas artist Dahlia Knowles (she/her) and her band Lorelei K with their newly released single
@curtisysmith@VestigialLung Ah, so excited to try out this new to me artist! And please share more if there's others you like!
...and now I'm realizing thanks to ADHD timeblindness and work stress...I've missed several weeks of Trans music! Appreciate VestigialLung keeping the momentum going and always sharing great artists.
Having discovered Ada Rook through Backxwash, and thus the 60s on my list being largely owned by various Black Dresses-adjacent projects, #TransMusicMonday this week is another project from Devi McCalion, specifically one of her collaborations with Katie Day. Of her three albums (on Spotify) under her own name, the first is sort of an industrial drone thing; then the following two are sort of an industrial dance situation.
#TransMusicMonday this week is going to be Fire-Toolz (Angel Marcloid, she/her)
This is an odd project. Most songs will center around the juxtaposition of black metal or industrial-style fry screams up against EDM, vaporwave, and/or 80s/early 90s “adult contemporary” pop hit sounds. It’s a core that creates an interesting dynamic, as the songs often feel at odds with themselves in a way that has to be deliberate. Well worth checking out.
For #TransMusicMonday I present the album you all have heard about by now, made recently available on BandCamp as not to punish listeners that use that platform.
Our #metal masterpiece born of trauma, despair, hope, and wonder, this is Salvation.
It’s a gory look into a life lived in the fringe, torn apart by the evil in this world. But it also serves as a statement of a soul that refuses to die.