A Perfect Circle - Judith

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Backstage Crew 🫵

Henry Rollins, Joe Strummer, Rick Rubin and Johnny Cash form a ring of fire backstage at the Pantages Theater, Los Angeles in 1995.

Photo by Steve Granitz

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Donna Lee Parsons isn’t particularly well-known in hardcore/punk circles, but she should be. She played a pivotal role in rock history. Before she transitioned, she founded Rat Cage Records, a record label that released the Beastie Boys’ first two EPs; she signed them at their very first show. Twenty years later, after Parsons came out as trans and the band’s meteoric rise to fame, the artists quietly paid for Parson’s gender affirmation surgery. According to member Adam Horovitz, since the men knew she wouldn’t accept the money if she saw it as a charitable act, they claimed they owed her royalties from their EP Polly Wog Stew.

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So if you’ve ever worn a ‘lightning bolt’ t-shirt or listened to Victim in Pain or found yourself fondly recalling a Beastie Boys show you went to, you have a transgender woman to thank for that. And we should know her story. If you call yourself a hardcore kid, Donna Lee Parsons touched your life.

Source: LGBTQ Nation | True Trans Soul Rebel by Norman Brannon | April 2024

Like Bardcore is a thing and nobody was going to tell me about it?

♡ BILLIE EILISH variety

April 13, 2024 - Gwen Stefani of No Doubt and Olivia Rodrigo perform at the Coachella Stage in Indio, California.

Hayley Williams

every person can feel freddie’s presence in their souls when they sing MAMAAAAAA UUHHHH, I DONT WANNA DIE, I SOMETIMES I WISH I’VE NEVER BEEN BORN AT ALL with all the air in their lungs i’m not joking

just peel out the watchword

Paramore Syracuse, 2018

"One more loop through abyss" JINJER live at Wacken Open Air 2023

Jinjer ➢ Pisces Live in Los Angeles

Polly Jean Harvey and cows

PARAMORE Austin City Limits, 2022

Billie Eilish