Billy Tipton was a jazz musician who achieved only modest regional success in the 40’s and 50’s. His career included live radio shows with Big Bands and evolved into jazz quartets and trios playing in night clubs. In his 74 years, in addition to being a band leader and a booking agent, he was a…

Everything is appealing to me about this artist:  1. S/he goes by the name Animal. 2. S/he was part of the duo Bitch & Animal, that toured the world for ten years, and released three albums on Ani Difranco’s label, Righteous Babe Records. 3. S/he identifies as a “transperformative artist.” Or, as Outfront Colorado more…

Bibi Andersen is a Spanish transsexual actress, singer and model who parlayed her sex change in a career in film, including appearing in films by Pedro Almodóvar. Born in 1954, she grew up in Malaga and moved to Barcelona to find her success. It was her first film though, “Cambio de Sexo (Sex Change),” in…

Stephen Leonard’s latest CD is, I think, exquisite. It’s called “His Fire” and is one of those albums that seem like a total work of art, where it’s almost a crime to pull pieces out of it without listening to the whole creation. That’s what make it difficult to talk about particular songs, if that…

Could it be 14 years already? The tragic death of Matthew Shepard on October 12, 1998, had a huge effect on people everywhere, especially GLBT people. That hate crime has inspired a large number of songs to be written about him over the years. I was deeply moved and began collecting these songs and have…

Matt Gold refers to himself as kind of a pop alternative singer/songwriter, and I guess that fits, though when I’m listening I so caught up that I don’t try to analyze, I just soak it all in. I’ve been aware of him for a while now and his debut CD is finally here. He slipped…

In case some of you missed it, I wanted to call attention to a special segment of my October OutRadio show, one that was quite fun to research and assemble: Gay Porn Stars Who Sing. It was actually kind of…er, hard to find enough folks to fill the segment, at one song each. It’s Part…

The other day I found an image of a Liberace matchbook from the 1950’s, and got off on a tangent (easy for me), as it reminded me that a while back a friend (thank you, Diane) had sent me an mp3 for a song called “Dear Liberace,” by Ruth Wallis. Now we both adore the…

View the Video on YouTube I’ve had this video on my site for a while, but recent changes in Firefox & IE settings (at least on my pc) just doesn’t enable it to work. So I moved it to my YouTube channel. I think this is too good to be hidden away. Screen Grabs:

Today I’m sharing the music of Austin artist/musician Ginger Doss. I’m way overdue as I got to see her perform last fall at the Houston Women’s Music Festival, but her latest album, from this Spring,  “From Love to Love,” really clinched it. Yeah, I have my faves from it, “Thankful” and “Run Little One,” but…