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Comprehensive list of Queer Pop Artists (wether through themes in songs or through confirmed ID) you could be supporting instead of throwing a fit over the fact that Swift is not gay and would really like if y’all stopped speculating (because it’s wrong to boil someone down to who they bone, and dangerous and harmful to out someone, thought we knew this as the queer community, but I digress)

List was created by a now deleted account on Reddit, so I can’t credit the exact person who created it

A Comprehensive List of LGBTQ+ Pop Music Act’s

additional reference: /u/[**frogaranaman**](https://www.reddit.com/user/frogaranaman/)**'s list divided by identity:** [**https://www.reddit.com/r/popheads/comments/c3rpga/happy\_pride\_in\_honor\_of\_the\_month\_here\_is\_a\_list/**](https://www.reddit.com/r/popheads/comments/c3rpga/happy_pride_in_honor_of_the_month_here_is_a_list/)

^(i divided by genre, so some people appear on multiple lists. I am not a musicologist; please do not ask me why i categorized an artist in one genre, but not the other. if the grammys never even get it right, how can i?)

**methodology**: i included artists who give a clear answer being a part of the community, have had it verified being queer and/or queerness some tangible way, have passed, and/or discuss queer themes in the first person in a moderate or significant part of their body of work. ^(i did not include comedy artists, so you will not see too many camp acts or drag queens here.)

**key**:

* *\** = person and/or representation of color, mostly black

* *(+)* = noticeably problematic

* *(#)* \- uses queer themes or narrators often, but not verified

if I missed someone, or misidentified someone, post a response with their name and genre. i will edit & include them.

# adult contemporary

* ben abraham *\**

* jennifer knapp

* will young

* sam smith

* billy porter *\**

* michaela jai *\**

# alternative folk & country

* orville peck

* adeem the artist

* tj osborne / brothers osbourne

* angel olson

* joy oladokun *\**

* sufjan stevens (#)

* evil *\**

* kd lang

* izzy heltai

* trixie mattel

* steve grand

* adrianne lenker (of big thief)

# alternative hip-hop & rap

* taylor bennett *\**

* snow tha product *\**

* zebra katz *\**

* shygirl *\**

* rob.b *\**

* tiger goods *\**

* naeem ***(formerly spank rock)*** *\**

* mykki blanco *\**

* princess nokia *\**

* mahawam *\**

* heems *\**

* saul williams *\**

* kalifa ***(formerly le1f)*** *\**

* omar apollo *\**

* keanan *(drill) \**

* drebae *\**

* cuee *\**

* junglepussy *\**

* angel haze *\**

* mista strange *(drill) \**

* the last artful, dogdr *\**

* dizzy fae *\**

* kelechi\*\*\*

* ilovemakonnen *\**

* kamaiyah *\**

* kidd kenn *(drill) \**

* leikeli47 *\**

* isaiah rashad *\**

* dai burger *\**

* azealia banks ***(+)*** *\**

* chicka *\**

* jaboukie *\**

* dapper dan midas *\**

* baby tate *\**

* kevin abstract / brockhampton *\**

* cakes da killa *\**

* iamjakehill / ur pretty

* cazwell

* lil lotus

* lil aaron

# alternative pop

* purple crush

* aurora

* st. vincent

* black dresses

* anohni

* maggie lindemann

* scott matthew

* oscar and the wolf

* steve lacy *\**

* dreamer isioma *\**

* vaultboy

* coco & clair clair *\**

* shamir *\**

* empress of *\**

* cat burns *\**

* kučka

* king mala

* lava la rue *\**

* devonte hynes / blood orange *\**

* jessica 6 *\**

* naeem ***(formerly spank rock)****\**

* adore delano / danny noriega *\**

* orion sun *\**

* dizzy fae *\**

* pvris

* japanese breakfast *\**

* dorian electra

* yeule

* kevin abstract / brockhampton *\**

* christine & the queens

* davy boi *\**

* declan mckenna

* yungblud

* jazmin bean

# alternative r&b

* durand bernarr *\**

* keiynan lonsdale\*

* frank ocean *\**

* noah davis

* serpentwithfeet \*

* joy oladokun *\**

* isaac dunbar *\**

* kwaye *\**

* steve lacy *\**

* kelechi *\**

* ray laurel *\**

* mac ayres

* orion sun *\**

* kyle dion *\**

* janelle monae *\**

* kelela *\**

* jeremy pope *\**

* syd / the internet *\**

* jamila woods *\**

* kehlani *\**

* mahawam *\**

* 070 shake *\**

* davy boi *\**

* destin conrad *\**

* michelle (band) *\**

* cat burns *\**

* coco & breezy *\**

* arlo parks *\**

* devonte hynes / blood orange *\**

* bartees strange *\**

* brayton bowman *\**

* bronze avery *\**

* cain culto ***(formerly ecclesia)*** *\**

* olivia o'brien

# SPOTLIGHT: arab, persian, & desi / south-asian artists

* the muslims *\**

* hamed sinno / mashrou’ leila *\**

* wafia *\**

* remi wolf *\**

* rostam / vampire weekend \*

* heems \*

* freddy mercury / queen *\**

* leo kalyan *\**

* lil darkie ***(+)*** *\**

* dounia *\**

* dua saleh *\**

* raveena *\**

* mavi phoenix *\**

* ray laurel\*

# black & urban contemporary gospel

* kevin terry \*

* mo heart \*

* resistance revival chorus \*

* james cleveland \*

* sister rosetta tharpe \*

* tonex / b.slade \*

* donnie mcclurkin \*

# blues / jazz / spoken word

* billy wright \*

* bessie smith \*

* frankie "half pint" jaxon \*

* big mama thorton \*

* johnny mathis \*

* ethel waters \*

* billie holiday \*

* little richard \*

* ma rainey \*

* billy strayhorn \*

* langston hughes\*

# camp

* iamjakehill / ur pretty

* jaboukie \*

* qaadir howard \*

# contemporary r&b

* whitney houston \*

* monifah \*

* iman jordan\*

* 070 shake\*

* bree runway\*

* coco & breezy\*

* dreamer isioma\*

# christian & worship

* william matthews\*

* semler

* ecclesia ***(now known as cain culto) \****

* sufjan stevens **(#)**

* jennifer knapp

* vicky beeching

* dion davis\*

* joy oladokun\*

* ethel cain

* julien baker

* dan haseltine / jars of clay

* ray boltz

# djs / producers

* kaytranda \*

* amorphous \*

* sophie

* mnek \*

* mike q \*

# electronic / disco / industrial

* woodkid

* robert alfons / tr/st

* bright light bright lights

* k flay

* beth ditto

* midnight pool party \*

* sylvester \*

* eartheater

* christine & the queens

* zee machine

* yves tumor \*

* passion pit

* the sound of arrows

* peaches

* fever ray / the knife

* hercules and love affair

* jessica 6 \*

* kele okereke / bloc party\*

* shura

* madison rose\*

* michael medrano

* shamir \*

* shygirl \*

# house / ballroom house

* little louie vega / masters at work\*

* azealia banks ***(+)*** \*

* tt the artist\*

* cake da killa\*

* kevin jz prodigy\*

* purple crush

* miss jay\*

* kevin aviance \*

* rupaul \*

# hyper / power pop

* 100 gecs

* that kid \*

* dorian electra

* mika \*

# indie & progressive pop

* mickey darling (#)

* fhat \*

* cub sport

* moses sumney \*

* kele okereke / bloc party\*

* minute taker

* morgxn

* shamir \*

* muna (\*)

* tawnted

* the aces

* rostam / vampire weekend \*

* this japanese house

* tinashe \*

* angel olson

* mothica

* peter thomas

* japanese breakfast \*

* lava la rue \*

* royal & the serpent

* michelle (band) \*

* semler

* pale waves

* perfume genius

* gabriel garzon montano \*

* declan mckenna

* the sound of arrows

* fever ray / the knife

* kali

* lava la rue

* girl in red

* bartees strange \*

* jake shears / scissor sisters

* ethel cain

* devonte hynes / blood orange \*

* purple crush

* tegan & sara

* oliver sim / the xx

* ssion

# indie rock

* kele okereke / bloc party \*

* cosmo jarvis ***(#)***

* oliver sim / the xx

* car seat headrest

* big thief

* now, now

* lucy dacus / boygenius

* rostam / vampire weekend \*

* boyish

* julien baker

* black belt eagle scout \*

* ethel cain

* courtney barnett

* pale waves

* joe talbot / idles

* le tigre

* john grant / the czars

* lava la rue \*

# SPOTLIGHT: indigenous artists

* black belt eagle scout \*

* keiynan lonsdale\*

* trixie mattel \*

# k-pop

* mrshll\*

* holland\*

* lionesses\*

* jiae / wa$$up\*

* wonho\*

# SPOTLIGHT: latinidad & latine artists

* arca \*

* ricky martin\*

* villano antillano \*

* cain culto (formerly ecclesia) \*

* tokischa \*

* mad tsai \*

* snow tha product \*

* 070 shake \*

* anitta \*

* kali uchis \*

* blue rojo \*

* pablo vittar \*

* maria becerra\*

* kaytranda \*

* omar rudberg \*

* empress of \*

* michaela jai \*

* willie gomez \*

* jessica 6 *\**

* mabiland \*

* princess nokia \*

* omar apollo \*

* adore delano / danny noriega \*

* omar rudberg \*

* adriano cintra / css \*

* young m.a \*

* gabriel garzon montano \*

* pablo alborán

* bentley robles \*

Also adding in general (not pop necessarily)

Elton John

Queen/Freddie Mercury

Lzzy Hale/ Halestorm

Taylor Momsen/ The Pretty Reckless

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kindheartedgummybears · 7 months

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eh while we're on the topic of Directive

once again, if i got any names or characters wrong please correct me!!

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curator-simp · 1 year

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#dark pictures anthology #dark pictures house of ashes #dark pictures the devil in me #dark pictures man of medan #dark pictures little hope

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fredvanvlecksuperintendent · 9 months

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Fred Van Vleck Superintendent | EHS Students Receive Seal of Biliteracy Awards

Shared by Fred Van Vleck Superintendent of Eureka City Schools. Eureka High School Students Earn 43 California State Seals of Biliteracy in 7 World Languages Honored Among 113 Students by the Humboldt County Office of Education May 19, 2023 – Eureka, CA – The Humboldt County Office of Education held its 11th Annual Seal of Biliteracy Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at the Sequoia Conference Center in Eureka. This year HCOE celebrated 113 students that earned the California Department of Education’s Seal of Biliteracy in one or more of 11 languages representing nine different high schools in Humboldt County. Eureka City Schools is proud to announce that Eureka High School made quite the statement this year with its students earning 43 Seals of Biliteracy in seven World Languages. These remarkable students were honored with an official certificate and a medal for achieving Biliteracy. Four students (below in bold) achieved multiliteracy and received their Seal in three languages including English. The students were accompanied by their families and dedicated staff from the EHS World Languages Department and EHS Counselors. Every school year Eureka High School offers its students the opportunity to be assessed to receive their California Seal of Biliteracy. The State Seal of Biliteracy (SSB), marked by a gold seal on the diploma or transcript, recognizes high school graduates who have attained a high level of proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing one or more languages in addition to English. Eureka High School Counselor Sarah Cruz says, “The process allows for students to have their language skills verified to colleges and future employers. Many of these students have taken four years of a world language at Eureka High or speak their own heritage language in addition to English.” Eureka High currently offers Spanish, German and Yurok. This year EHS students received Seals of Biliteracy in Spanish, German, Hmong, Vietnamese, Czech, Gujarati and Chinese Mandarin. Join us in congratulating them! Their names and Seals of Biliteracy are listed below. Bien Hou – German/Mandarin Kazhia Lee – Spanish/Hmong Kishan Patel – Gujarati/Spanish Amelia Staiano – Czech/Spanish German Spectre Hailey Amber Olson Gaige Shinn Vietnamese Bui Khanh Linh Nguyen Spanish Faith Abercrombie Aleyah Angel Lopez Christopher Barroso Olivia Biesecker Wolfgang Bise Davis Boone Ava Colosi-Bennett Marco Cruz Hernandez Spanish continued Alma Cruz-Mojica Puletele Fonoti Joseph GonzalezFletes Anna Grimmett Rebeka Hang Diego Hernandez-Gonzalez Jesus Hernandez Stasha Leonard Ashly Lopez Samantha Munguia-Gastelum Margaret Odell Sasha Ortiz Bazan Kimberli Pacheco Pretty Perez Finn Nelsy Ramirez Pacheco Keenan Riggs Turpin Brian Rodriguez Barroso Destiny Rodriguez Valeria Ruiz Ean Savage Jordan Urban Juan Valdavinos Isaac Young —– Press Contact: Sierra Speer Dillon Communications and Marketing Coordinator Eureka City Schools [email protected] Tel: 707-441-3373 To find out more about the California Department of Education’s State Seal of Biliteracy visit: www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/er/sealofbiliteracy.asp Originally published here: https://askfredvanvleck.com/ehs-students-receive-seal-of-biliteracy-awards/

#IFTTT #Fred Van Vleck Superintendent

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brookstonalmanac · 9 months

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Birthdays 7.17

Beer Birthdays

James Pawley Dawes (1843)

Anthony Straub (1882)

Joshua Bernstein (1978)

Five Favorite Birthdays

James Cagney; actor (1899)

Erle Stanley Gardner; writer (1889)

Vince Guaraldi; jazz pianist (1928)

Peter Schickele; music comedian, composer (1935)

Donald Sutherland; actor (1934)

Famous Birthdays

Berenice Abbott; photographer (1898)

Shmuel Yosef Agnon; Ukrainian-Israeli writer (1888)

Ron Asheton; guitarist and songwriter (1948)

John Jacob Astor; zillionaire (1763)

Lou Barlow; guitarist and songwriter (1966)

George Barnes; guitarist and songwriter (1921)

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten; German philosopher (1714)

Luc Bondy; Swiss film director (1948)

Tim Brooke-Taylor; English comedian (1940)

Mark Burnett; television producer (1960)

Geezer Butler; English bass player (1949)

Diahann Carroll; actor (1935)

Niccolò Castiglioni; Italian composer (1932)

Elizabeth Cook; singer and guitarist (1972)

John Cooper; English car designer (1923)

Chris Crutcher; writer (1946)

Spencer Davis; rock musician (1942)

Paul Delaroche; French painter (1797)

Phyllis Diller; comedian (1917)

Cory Doctorow, Canadian author (1971)

Lyonel Feininger;, German-American painter (1871)

Lionel Ferbos; trumpeter (1911)

Wolfgang Flür; German musician (1947)

Wendy Freedman; Canadian-American cosmologist and astronomer (1957)

Elbridge Gerry; politician (1744)

Sergei K. Godunov; Russian mathematician (1929)

Gordon Gould; laser inventor (1920)

David Hasselhoff; actor (1952)

Hermann Huppen; Belgian author and illustrator (1938)

Bruno Jasieński; Polish poet and author (1901)

Scott Johnson; cartoonist (1969)

Darryl Lamonica; Oakland Raiders QB (1941)

Nicolette Larson; singer-songwriter (1952)

Thé Lau; Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (1952)

Georges Lemaître; Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (1894)

Art Linkletter; humorist (1912)

Pierre Louis Maupertuis; French mathematician and philosopher (1698)

Robert R. McCammon; author (1952)

Angela Merkel; German chemist and politician (1954)

Craig Morgan; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1965)

Luis Munoz-Rivera; Puerto Rican patriot, poet (1859)

Frank Olson; chemist and microbiologist (1910)

Barbara O'Neil; actor (1910)

Mary Osborne; guitarist (1921)

Quino Spanish-Argentinian cartoonist (1932)

Christiane Rochefort; French author (1917)

Jason Rullo; rock drummer (1972)

Jimmy Scott; jazz singer (1925)

Ephraim Shay, American engineer (1839)

Phoebe Snow; singer (1952)

P.J. Soles; actor (1950)

Red Sovine; country singer (1917)

Christina Stead; Australian author (1902)

J. Michael Straczynski; writer (1954)

Mick Tucker; English rock drummer (1947)

Isaac Watts; English hymnwriter (1674)

Alex Winter; actor (1965)

#Birthdays

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silly-taylorsversion · 1 year

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sometimes I forget the heartstopper characters are british

#heartstopper #nick nelson #charlie spring #elle argent #tao xu #tara jones #darcy olson #tori spring #isaac henderson #nellie nelson

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honeyleesblog · 11 months

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July 14 Zodiac - Full Horoscope Personality

They are keen on all that occurs on the planet, what others do, their thought process, all of which permit them to assemble data, grow their experience, and foster their internal identities. They reflect nature, they think and mirror a great deal. They have an extraordinary creative mind and like to stare off into space. They are removed, alterable, very held, fairly modest - they show little interest in succeeding throughout everyday life. Curiously delicate and frequently held - very figuring out in their way of behaving. They partake in their family climate and are astoundingly appended to their moms. They are close to home individuals, genuinely connected to others. They like the past, old traditions and, by and large, all old things; they frequently gather different things. They have a seriously heartfelt disposition. Economical and persisting - they don't leave their place of employment in any event, when every other person does. They are exceptionally terrified of being mocked, which frequently makes them veil their sentiments and cause mistaken assumptions. They are fit for enduring and profound love. Blemishes: They show a specific latency of character and absence of drive. After times of movement and work, there is a few latency and dormancy where they need to keep away from any work. They are excessively glad, excessively partial to shallow functions; nonetheless, they are very severe in connections. What compromises them? The center time of your life will be upbeat and blissful. Notwithstanding, in light of the fact that they express an excess of detachment when they ought to be making an honest effort, the finish of their life could be ominous. Sicknesses in which they may be in danger incorporate stomach related messes, gastric fever, and ailment.

July 14 Zodiac - Full Horoscope Personality

Assuming that your birthday is July 14, your zodiac sign is Malignant growth July 14 - character and character character: wary, unbiased, ready, anxious, impolite, little and limited receptive calling: rancher, musician, attorney tones: orange, dark, earthy colored stone: feline's eye animal: duck plant: Chives fortunate numbers: 21,23,44,46,51,53 very fortunate number: 5 Occasions and Observances - July 14 Iraq: Republic Day. Nicaragua: Public Banner Day. France: French Public Day. July 14 Big name Birthday. 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Coast Guard Academy settles suit over cadets-with-kids ban | Lifestyle

New London, Conn. (AP) – A U.S. Coast Guard academy cadet who was expelled for becoming a father will receive his degree as part of a legal settlement, his attorneys said Thursday. Isaac Olson sued the academy in December after years of trying to be reinstated as a cadet. He was two months from graduating, with a degree in mechanical engineering and a commission as an officer, when he revealed in…

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petnews2day · 2 years

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Amateur baseball roundup: Bird Island shuts down Willmar 6-0 - West Central Tribune

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Amateur baseball roundup: Bird Island shuts down Willmar 6-0 - West Central Tribune

BIRD ISLAND — Casey Lewandowski dominated for seven innings and Bird Island smacked three home runs in its 6-0 Corn Belt League victory over the Willmar Rails on Sunday.

Lewandowski struck out six, walked one and allowed one hit over seven innings.

Trent Athmann, Dylan Gass and Shawn Dollerschell all hit home runs for the Bullfrogs. Zeke Waltman and Jared Dettmann each had two hits.

Jordan Steffer doubled and Wade Fischer singled for Willmar.

Willmar 000 000 000-0 2 3 Bird Island 121 020 000-6 9 0 Hitting – Willmar: Jordan Steffer 1-4 2b, Wade Fischer 1-4 … Bird Island: Trent Athmann 1-5 r rbi hr, Logan Swann 1-3 2b, Tyler Hebrink 1-3 r, Dylan Gass 1-4 r rbi hr, Shawn Dollerschell 1-4 r rbi-2 hr, Zeke Walton 2-3 r, Jared Dettmann 2-4 r rbi 2b, Nic Taylor 0-2 rbi Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) – Willmar: Patrick Courtney (L) 5-8-6-6-2-2, Adam Herman 0.2-1-0-0-0-0, Ashton Gregory 2.1-0-0-0-0-0 … Bird Island: Casey Lewandowski (W) 7-1-0-0-1-6, Brad Gass 1-0-0-0-1-1, Eric Gass 1-1-0-0-0-0

Alex Call pitched five dominant innings and also had two hits to help the Raymond Rockets to the Corn Belt League victory over the Milroy Yankees at Raymond.

Call, a 2022 Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg graduate, struck out 11 and walked two, not allowing a hit or earned run. He also was 2-for-3 with a double and three RBIs.

John Sawatzky went the final four innings for the save, striking out six and walking four. He allowed four hits and one run.

Tyler Steen was 2-for-4 with a double, four runs and two stolen bases for the Rockets.

For Milroy, David Schmidt was 2-for-4 with a run and Branden Flock was 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI.

Milroy 000 010 010-2 4 1 Raymond 201 030 40x-10 9 2 Hitting – Milroy: David Schmidt 2-4 r, Branden Flock 2-4 rbi 2b, Cole Felcyn 0-1 r hbp … Raymond: Eli Nelson 1-4 r sb, Mike Jeseritz 0-4 r, Tyler Steen 2-2 r-4 2b sb-2, Isaac Call 0-2 r-2 hbp, Alex Call 2-3 rbi-3 2b, John Sawatzky 0-1 r, Caleb Ditmarson 1-3 rbi-2, Tanner Bauman 0-0 r rbi, Brady Kienitz 1-4 rbi, Paxton Nelson 1-2 hbp-2 sb-2, Brett Swanson 1-3, Wylie Lottman 0-0 rbi Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) – Milroy: Aaron Mathiowetz (L) 6-7-6-5-3-4, Schmidt 0-1-4-4-4-4-0, Felcyn 1-0-0-0-0-0, Brock Schultz 1-1-0-0-1-1 … Raymond: A. Call (W) 5-0-1-0-2-11, Sawatzky (Sv) 4-4-1-1-4-6

Adam Brewers threw a solid seven innings as the Granite Falls Kilowatts beat the Tracy Engineers in a Corn Belt League game at Richter Field in Granite Falls.

Brewers struck out six and walked one. He scattered eight hits and allowed two earned runs.

Kyle TeBeest went 2-for-3 with an RBI and two stolen bases, Bennett Knapper was 2-for-5 with a double, an RBI and a stolen base and Colten Vien was 2-for-4 with an RBI for the Kilowatts.

Trevor Parlberg was 2-for-4 with two doubles and a run and Jake Olson was 2-for-4 with a double, a hit-by-pitch and two RBI for the Engineers.

Tracy 000 000 210-3 10 1 Granite Falls 110 003 01x-6 9 5 Hitting – Tracy: Kyle Krzmarzick 1-4 rbi, Taylor VanOverbeke 1-3 2b, Trevor Parlberg 2-4 r 2b-2, Shane Erickson 1-4 r hbp, Jake Olson 2-4 rbi-2 2b hbp, Dylan Wittmeier 1-5, Anthony Rohlik 1-5, Nathan Fultz 0-4 r sb, James Fultz 1-4 … Granite Falls: Jordan Odegard 1-4 r-3 rbi-2 3b sb, Kyle TeBeest 2-3 rbi sb-2, Bennett Knapper 2-5 rbi 2b sb, Colten Vien 2-4 rbi, Brandon Grund 0-3 hbp, Cole Fisher 1-3 r-2 sb, Dalton Anderson 1-4 rbi 2b, Nick Lindstrom 0-2 r sac Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) – Tracy: Jory Dove (L) 6-7-5-5-4-4, Andy LaVoy 2-2-1-1-2-1 … Granite Falls: Adam Brewers (W) 7-8-2-2-1-6, Caleb Jans 1-2-1-0-0-0, Knapper 1-0-0-0-0-1

The Spring Hill Chargers put up 11 hits in an eight-inning Stearns County League win against the host Roscoe Rangers.

Eric Terres, Jamie Terres and Owen Meyer each had two hits for Spring Hill. Meyer, Austin Schoenberg and Corey Schoenberg each hit home runs for the Chargers.

Austin Pauls led Roscoe’s offense, going 3-for-3 with a triple and a run scored. Devon Savage finished 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI.

Spring Hill 012 070 30-13 11 1 Roscoe 000 000 20-2 8 3 Hitting – Spring Hill: Eric Terres 2-2 2b r-2 rbi-2 bb, Austin Schoenberg 1-5 hr r rbi-2, Jamie Terres 2-3 2b r rbi-2 bb-2, Corey Schoenberg 1-3 hr r rbi-3, Devin Orbeck 1-3 r, Owen Meyer 2-4 hr r-2 rbi, Ben Welle 1-2 r rbi bb sb, Luke Dehmar 1-1, Reegan Nelson 0-4 r, Dylan Gertken 0-3 r-2, Erik Barten 0-0 r bb … Roscoe: Bryce Vanderbeek 1-3, Devon Savage 2-3 2b rbi bb, Austin Pauls 3-3 3b r, Josh Mackedanz 1-2, Garth Utsch 1-1, Cory Schmitt 0-1 r rbi Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) – Spring Hill: Welle (W) 6-6-0-0-0-8, Carter Tschida 1-2-2-1-2-0 … Roscoe: Mackedanz (L) 4.1-8-9-6-2-0, Brandon Schleper 1.2-2-1-0-1-0, Isaac Schultz 1-1-3-3-2-1

Blaine Athmann got the pitching win and Dusty Adams earned the save in the Richmond Royals’ Stearns County League victory over the Lake Henry Lakers at Richmond.

Litchfield 6, Dassel-Cokato 4 Tied at 4-4, the Litchfield Blues’ Andrew Loch drove in two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to get the North Star League win against the Dassel-Cokato Saints at Optimist Park in Litchfield.

On the first pitch of his at-bat, Loch drove a two-out single to right field to bring home Bennett Lecher and Ryan Quast. Loch finished 2-for-5 with a pair of runs. Lecher, Avery Liestman, Brady Smith and Jake Jones all had two hits for Litchfield. Liestman hit a pair of doubles while also driving in three runs.

Dylan Koll picked up the win after putting up all zeros in the ninth inning.

Dassel-Cokato 200 010 100-4 7 2 Litchfield 002 000 22x-6 12 2 Hitting – Dassel-Cokato: Steve Boger 1-3 2b r rbi bb, Jim Althoff 2-4 r rbi, Noah Halonen 2-4, Jordan Flick 1-4 rbi, Collin Krick 1-4, Dylan Weber 0-3 r, Gus Flick 0-0 r … Litchfield: Andrew Loch 2-5 r-2 rbi-2, Jake Jones 2-4 2b r rbi, Avery Liestman 2-4 2b-2 rbi-3, Brady Smith 2-4, Carson Deal 1-4, Bennett Lecher 2-4 r sb, Ryan Quast 1-4 r-2 Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) – Dassel-Cokato: J. Flick (L) 8-12-6-2-0-1 … Litchfield: Joey Hyde 5-4-3-2-1-4, Jack Ramthun 3-3-1-1-0-2, Dylan Koll (W) 1-0-0-0-0-0

The Atwater Chuckers hit four home runs in a County Line League victory against the Paynesville Pirates at Paynesville.

Josh Cunningham hit a grand slam in the top of the first inning as part of a five-run frame. He went deep again in the fifth with a solo homer. Jack Peterson had a two-run homer in the seventh, and Jordan Olson led off the eighth with a solo shot.

Josh Kingery tossed eight innings for the Chuckers, striking out 18 while giving up no runs, three hits and one walk. He also went 2-for-3 at the plate.

Garrett Leusink was 2-for-4 for Paynesville.

Atwater 500 010 210-9 9 0 Paynesville 000 000 000-0 4 1 Hitting – Atwater: Josh Kingery 2-3 2b r bb-2, Kobe Holtz 1-5 r bb, Jordan Olson 1-3 hr r-2 rbi-2 bb-2, Josh Cunningham 2-6 hr-2 r-2 rbi-5, Jack Peterson 1-4 hr r rbi-2 bb, Ezra Kaping 2-2, David Kingery 0-4 r bb, Jeff Peterson 0-4 r bb-2 sb … Paynesville: Garrett Leusink 2-4, Grant Fuchs 1-2, Sam Oehrlein 1-3 Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) – Atwater: J. Kingery (W) 8-3-0-0-1-18, Holtz 1-1-0-0-2-3 … Paynesville: Bennett Evans (L) 1-2-5-5-4-1, Fuchs 4-1-1-1-5-7, Griffin Bjerke 2-4-2-2-2-3, Blake Vagle 1-2-1-1-0-1, Oehrlein 1-0-0-0-2-1

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Dust Volume 5, Number 9

Tropical Fuck Storm

Just like that, summer’s over and we face a growing pile of late 2019 records. But before that, before we drag ourselves like kids to school into the second half, a moment to appreciate what’s accumulated. This month’s Dust touches on groovy jazz tuba, punishing hardcore, a bracing industrial reissue, altered percussion and an OG Tuareg guitarist. Contributors this time around include Isaac Olson, Ian Mathers, Jennifer Kelly, Jonathan Shaw, Bill Meyer and Andrew Forell.

Joseph Allred — O Meadowlark (Feeding Tube)

O, Meadowlark by Joseph Allred

Plenty of people get the tag American Primitive Guitarist stuck on their rump these days. It’s not always appropriate and it’s not always welcome, but it adheres to Joseph Allred with the fastness of the truth. Allred, a Tennessean who currently pursues higher learning at Boston College, understands that whether you use mountain music or raga-derived form as your framework (and he uses a bit of both, alternating between skeletal banjo figures and rushing guitar fantasias), the music has to project something beyond the notes. O Meadowlark not only evokes a cascade of emotions, some explicit and others allowed and bent until they’re beyond name, but he exerts an opposite pull. Like Robbie Basho or Steffen Basho Junghans, he draws the listener through the sound hole and into the tones and overtones that carom about the insides of his guitar. Climb inside; like a Tardis, it has room for all.

Bill Meyer

Caterina Barbieri — Ecstatic Computation (Editions Mego)

Ecstatic Computation by Caterina Barbieri

The title of Caterina Barbieri’s third LP suggests a congress of emotional states and cognitive processes; total neural action, you might say. The sound of the thing suggests another, maybe more personal integration. She favors massive, echo-haloed electronic sounds, the sort that would set off all manner of madness in the disco if only she’d subordinate them to a sufficiently clubby beat. But instead she juxtaposes them with wordless female vocals (not her own) and switched-on harpsichord sounds which lock together with a structural logic that probably comes natural to a person who grew up studying classical guitar. And while the sounds promise abandon, the way they lock together requires submission to a Bach-like allegiance to order. Promise delivered.

Bill Meyer

Theon Cross — Fyah (Gearbox Records)

Fyah by Theon Cross

Tuba player Theon Cross was the secret weapon of last year’s excellent Your Queen is a Reptile, by The Sons of Kemet. Fyah is Cross’s debut as a band leader, and if the melodies occasionally sag, Cross and company generate more than enough energy to keep you, if not intently listening, grooving. Like many in the London jazz scene, Cross has no qualms about pulling in sounds from everywhere, and while not every experiment works (the synths and trap beats on “Panda Village” don’t add much), it keeps Fyah feeling fleet and admirably populist. Cross’s commitment to bring the tuba back to our attention and good graces is admirable, and he’s certainly the right guy for the job, but for better or for worse, he suffers the fate of all lower register players: disappearing when played back at anything less than high volume. As such, the real MVP on Fyah is tenor saxophonist and fellow London hotshot, Nubya Garcia. Fyah is a good record. It gets better the louder you play it.

Isaac Olson

Drugs of Faith — Decay (Selfmadegod Records)

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Drugs of Faith have been making records like Decay, their new EP, for quite a while now. The record is full of crossover hardcore that pushes on the pressure points of crust and sludge. It’s grimy, gritty, sweaty stuff and it’s really good. The focused truculence of a song like “Anonymity” sharpens rather than overwhelms the tune’s tendencies toward melody, and what a frigging breakdown. The whole 7” — all ten minutes of it — is terrifically punishing. Or maybe it’s punishingly terrific. Whatever it is, it goes by quick. But that’s cool, you’ll just flip it and play it again. And like a live hardcore set, music this intense is best enjoyed in small, gut-thumping doses. Toward the end of the excellent track “Nihilists,” singer Richard Johnson (who also plays guitar) growls, “If I go down, I’m taking you all with me.” Sure sounds like he means it.

Jonathan Shaw

Help — Help (Self Released)

Help by Help

One advantage to keeping songs short and lyrics anthemic is that you can throw a whole lot of sludge into the works and still end up with tunes that folks will remember the next day. Portland noise-punk band does this six times on their quite good debut EP, Help. No surprises here, just grimy, coruscating punk that sounds amazing when you’re reading the latest update on our slide into oligarchy/kleptocracy/kakistocracy/planet death/what have you. Best of all is their theme song, which softens up a traditionally macho genre with some very welcome, very 2019 vulnerability (Complete lyrics: “Help!/I fucking need it!/You know I’ve battled but it’s all I can take!”) and the closer, “Class War Now” which is about… well, you know.

Isaac Olson

HTRK – Nostalgia (Fire Records)

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Nostalgia is the self-released 2004 debut EP by Australian experimental trio HTRK (Hate Rock Trio). Nigel Yang (guitar, programming, electronics), Jonnine Standish (voice, percussion, samples) and Sean Stewart (bass, programming, samples) produce seven tracks of heavy, noise intensive electronica with echoes of Throbbing Gristle, Pan Sonic and Suicide. Physically and psychically crushing, the tracks move at a funereal pace with waves of static and feedback crashing against bottom end bass, percussion and drum machines as Standish’s voice intones from a cave, a cross between Lydia Lunch and Alan Vega. Instrumental opener “Hate Rock Trio” begins quietly with the ticking of a clock, a time bomb with crashes of distorted percussion. Thereafter the song titles tell the story of the EP. Run together they form both a record of, and a demand to acknowledge, damage inflicted: “Look What’s Been Done/Look Down the Line/Look At That Girl/Look At Her/You Injured Me/I’m All Broke Up.” The intensity builds with each track as feedback and samples scratch atop thickening layers of black sludge. Re-released by Fire Records, Nostalgia is a bracing experience with a palpable sense of menace.

Andrew Forell

Max Jaffe — Giant Beat (Ramp Local)

Giant Beat by Max Jaffe

If a curious listener was told Max Jaffe only used one instrument to make Giant Beat, they’d be forgiven for guessing something like a modular synth. Instead, it’s drums, but in a way that makes the question maybe a little bit of a cheat; Jaffe, drummer for JOBS, Elder Ones and others, was also a beta tester for something called Sensory Percussion that allows percussionists to use their instruments to trigger sounds and samples in a way that feels analogous to the chromatic, sometimes abrasive playing Ian Crause and Disco Inferno did with sampling. Of course, with a drum kit and that kind of setup, Jaffe can generate a whole album just by himself in a different way than you might get with, say, a singer and an acoustic guitar. Giant Beat dips its toes into various experimental waters, jazz here, electronics there, noise and musique concrete there, but always with the steady pulse of Jaffe’s one-take percussive playing behind it. The result feels like anything but a product demo; if anything, it feels like a new type of voice articulating itself.

Ian Mathers

Ocean Fanfare — First Nature (Barefoot)

First Nature by Ocean Fanfare

Whether you take the words First Nature as a prescription of priorities or a stern reminder of who is best equipped to play the long game in the battle between humankind and its environment, this is a record with a message. But since that message is being relayed via horns, bass, and drums, which play melodies that wind and ascend, one must exercise one’s emotional antennae to decode the vibe. Both trumpeter Tomsz Dabrowski and alto saxophonist Sven Dam Meinild are equally facile with post-bop tunes and extended technique explorations, and the shuttles between these poles gives the music a questing quality. They’re methodically seeking, not giving up hope, and the inventive ways they maintain balance on the fly suggests that they’re conscious of what tools will come in handy if people are going to survive.

Bill Meyer

Abdallah Ag Oumbadougou — Anou Malane (Sahel Sounds)

Anou Malane by Abdallah Ag Oumbadougou

One of the original Tuareg guitar heroes, Abdallah Oumbadougou recorded these dreaming, droning, melancholic-with-a-swagger tunes in Benin in 1995 with the West African producer Nel Oliver. It was a step up for Oumbadougou, who had previously recorded mostly on boom boxes in encampments during breaks in the Tuareg rebellion, but the songs, even embellished with electronics and studio effects, have a raw, lonely power to them. “Thingalene” drifts towards funky pop in its syncopated drum machines and squealing synths, but Oumbadougou’s voice carries over time and distance with a bracing authenticity. Other tracks, like “Tenere” splice the echoing snap of gate-reverbed drums to a beat that sways like camel caravans; the guitar work here is particularly fine. On its original release, Anou Malane introduced the world to the Tuareg’s keening, ambling desert blues; now it reminds us that artists like Tinariwen and Terekaft and Mdou Moctar are interpreting and extending — not inventing — a vibrant art form.

Jennifer Kelly

Savage Republic —Gods & Guns (Mobilization)

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Savage Republic doesn’t pack the band schedule very tightly nowadays. The band, currently a quartet (Thom Fuhrmann, Ethan Port, Alan Waddington, Kerry Dowling), took the whole of the 1990s off and has made just two albums in this century. But when they do make a record, it hits hard. In days gone by they sounded like Rhys Chatham fronting the Ventures on an album of Aegean surfer themes, but now they sound just a bit like Michael Gira fronting Echo & the Bunnymen in some Bladerunner-like hell of a dark hole. “God & Guns,” sung in dire and reverb-swaddled tones by Fuhrmann, articulates understandable dismay at the twin lumps of stinky meat that are being held in front of the vast heard of fascism-embracing Americans. The instrumental on the flip is named “Tranquilo,” but you won’t rest while they’re charging you, driven by chain-gang shouts, oil drum lashes, and epically massive bass. Heavy shit for heavy times.

Bill Meyer

Sleeping Ancient — There Is No Truth But Death (Viridian Flame)

There Is No Truth But Death by Sleeping Ancient

In any number of ways, black metal and the horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft are a good match. The overweening interest in darkness and unnamably horrific, indecipherably complex forms; the highly abstruse mysticism; the tinge of troubling racism and anti-Semitism — it’s sort of uncanny. Sleeping Ancient aren’t the first black metal band to express a deep appreciation for Lovecraft’s weird fictions. Heck, they probably aren’t even the tenth or the fiftieth. But if they’re not breaking any new ground, thematically or musically, at least they’re making good songs. Check out the grand dirge of “Akeru,” or the slow but assured drift, from frigidly delicate melody to batshit intensity, that forms “Taphephobic Hallucinations” (taphephobia, by the way, is crippling fear of the grave—not death so much as the gravesite itself). The songs are typical of Sleeping Ancient’s mannered but powerful playing, which the band sustains across the whole of There Is No Truth But Death. It’s a good record to play as we wait for Cthulu. Judging by current conditions, we won’t have long to wait.

Jonathan Shaw

Sore Points — Not Alright (Slovenly)

SORE POINTS "Not Alright" EP by Sore Points

If you miss the Marked Men, how ‘bout some hard, fast punk rock from Vancouver? This four-song 7 inch, following a 2018 self-titled on Deranged, snarls and stomps with feverish fury, making the most of its double drummed, guitar stabbed, bass whomped basics. You’d infer a few battered Ramones records in the rec room, but also punks both harder core and more melodic—Black Flag on one end and the Buzzcocks on the other. “Not Alright” rampages at blur speed. The drummer, whoever he is (Sore Points are not big on self-promotion), gets a monster workout here, but really everybody is pushing about as hard as it goes. “Not Coming Back,” is likewise accelerated, but in an anthemic, memorable way. As a non-professional, you’d kill yourself trying to keep up playing these songs, but you can sing along, no problem, after just one or two spins.

Jennifer Kelly

Tropical Fuck Storm — Braindrops (Joyful Noise)

Braindrops by Tropical Fuck Storm

“Braindrops,” the title track from this second Tropical Fuck Storm album, slinks and rattles and backpedals, its rhythm complicated and syncopated, its stream-of-consciousness lyrics about dreams and waking (“But you gotta get up because time is nagging like a dog humping your leg”) as tangled as the polyrhythmic beat. There’s a slant of ska in the bass, a dissolute hint of post-punk in the cracked vocals and a baroque inclination to stuff things to the gills in the overload of just about everything. Tropical Fuck Storm tilts recognizable forms so far over that they always seem to be careening into chaos. A hip friendly bump of bass and drums is just a landing pad for guitar noises that crash, still burning, to the ground. Even the ballads (“Paradise” both “Marias”) teem with noise and dissonance. Braindrops is never an easy listen. It verges, fairly often, on the unpleasant. But in a world where everything spins down to a grey Spotified entropy, it’s a prickly, fascinating, mess of bright colored wires; go ahead cut one and see if it explodes.

Jennifer Kelly

Various Artists — Greys (Anachronisme)

Greys by Field Guides

In this day and age, if one even wanted to put together a new “We Are the World,” where would one start? Leverage Models’ return to music last year with the phenomenal Whites was partly so that previously-shelved record could raise money for the Southern Poverty Law Center, and here the band and Anachronisme Records are at it again. Raising money for the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees this time, instead of trying to rope everyone they know into one big aesthetically-dubious singalong, they’ve put together with any number of friends a smorgasbord of 21 tracks all somehow ‘in conversation’ with the music on Whites. There are plenty of intriguing covers, remixes, and other deconstructions, from Field Guides’ glowing, pastoral version of “If I Let You Stay” to the menacing buzz of DOV’s remix of “Dark Pools,” to Concierge Records and The Working Elite’s “transatlantic meditation” on the feeling of the first song on Whites with “Day Two,” as well as two unreleased tracks from Leverage Models. Then there are the contributions that just engage with the emotions and stories of the original album, like Courtship Ritual’s haunting “Uncle Incision” and William Tyler’s gorgeous “She Swims in Hidden Water.” There’s a lot here to absorb, but even if you’re not familiar with the source material it all stands on its own, even as it’s still one of the most intriguing expansions of an album in recent memory. Not to mention hopefully a more effective way to help a good cause.

Ian Mathers

avery r. young—Tubman (FPE)

tubman. by avery r. young

avery r. young brings the sizzle in this paean to African-American musical traditions from skanky funk to body-moving R&B to soul-on-fire gospel, complete with a full choir. The multi-talented Chicagoan took inspiration from his own book—Neckbone: Visual Verses—from Nina Simone and from the singer Jamila Woods, whose superlative pipes provide the uplift of many of these cuts. “Maasai” slouches so far into a smouldery blacksploitation groove as to be nearly horizontal, all evil wah-wah’d twitch and rumbling bass and slashing lightning bolts of disco strings, while “go'head mary & weep” takes things to the church with a massive harmonized swell. young himself has a fine, fluttery, emotionally nimble tenor, shades of the Reverend Al Green in his supple phrasing, but his songs take flight when they’re sung by a crowd, as on the spiritually stirring “lead in da wattah” and especially, the monster highlight “get to know a nina simone song” which rolls on like a doo-wopping, gospel-quarteting freight train right on to Mississippi. God damn, indeed.

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