Here comes another I-Lost-My-Woman-To-Another-Woman Song, and that sort-of genre was popular in Country Music, mostly in the 1990’s. But these guys aren’t Country and perhaps lean more toward “Margaritaville,” (just look at them). The album was named “WaHa Music,” from 1988, and they called themselves Free Hot Lunch. The song that caught my ear is…

Okay, I hate football….but I do not discriminate, I hate all sports, and only watch sports once every four years (Summer Olympics: men’s gymnastics, swimming and diving). So you would hardly expect me to blog about the Super Bowl, when I almost never even know who is playing, and then it’s by accident and I…

QMH for February. Gladys Bentley Tribute. I’ve been wanting to do this show for quite a while, and kept putting it off, as Bentley is quite an intimidating subject. But it’s done, and it covers music from her whole career, and includes some very rare unreleased material you should not miss.  http://www.queermusicheritage.com/feb2013.html   And please…

The songs of this artist make me smile. He’s Chicago indie…well, wait, I’ll let the blurb from his Bandcamp page tell you: “His songs marry quirky lyrics to catchy melodies. Sort of like They Might Be Giants after an intensive course in David Sedaris.” If he means the sly dry wit, yes, I see it.…

Okay, I rarely do this, but I’m plugging a CD fund-raising campaign, and I Love this artist. He’s Australian singer Brendan Maclean, and I’ve been playing his infectious pop on OutRadio for over a year now, and reveling in such songs as “Cold and Happy,” “Only Only,” “Practically Wasted,” and “You Beat Me To It.”…

As producer of the website Queer Music Heritage I think I’m qualified to say that the Women’s Music Movement was the most important element in our LGBT music history, and the big heart in the middle of that movement was Olivia Records. It wasn’t the first, but it certainly was the main force in popularizing…

I love that in this video I can honor at the same time two creations that themselves honored the lesbian pioneers of the 1930’s through the 1960’s. On Judy Reagan’s 1983 LP “Old Friends,” she included the wonderful song “Hollywood Haircut,” and it deserves so much more attention than it has received over the years.…

In 1974 an English group called the Rubettes had a big power pop hit with “Sugar Baby Love.” It immediately hit #1 on European charts, selling millions. By the next three years they had ten on the UK charts (though only their first one reached America, only making it to #37). I loved the band,…

Read the entire issue I happened upon the above 1976 issue of Image, The Quarterly Magazine for the Sophisticated Crossdresser, and figured I might as well share it. This was a publication edited by Sandy Mesics, out of Philadelphia, and begun in 1974. And, yeah, this is generally a music blog but I seem to…

In the 1960’s Coca Cola recorded at least 50 commercials with rock & pop stars of the day singing that “things go better with Coca Cola,” or variations. These were the big names of the day. Lesley Gore, as far as I know, recorded the “Things Go Better” ad in three lengths: 30, 60 and…