For this week’s episode, Queers to the Front Booking founder Maja Liv Groves sits down with Rachel Dispenza, one half of Philadelphia’s Coping Skills and tour manager for artists such as Mannequin Pussy, Worriers, and more. Tune in to hear about Maja and Rachel discussing best practices for tour and merch management, crop tops, selling merch, and adapting to the pandemic.

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Editing/Mixing: Iris Chang

Promo Photo Credits: Chris Sikich (@countfeed)

Logo Graphic Design: Luke Phillips (http://linktr.ee/lizard.phillips)

Song Used in Outro: ‘I Don’t Feel Good About This’ by Coping Skills, 2020

[For the detailed history of the last 6 years of this song, check out the More Talk, Less Rock podcast episode about it: tinyurl.com/moretalklessrock-2-9]

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Coping Skills: https://copingskills.bandcamp.com/

Rachel Dispenza: @agita_online

QTTF Socials: https://linktr.ee/queerstothefrontbooking

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QTTF Podcast:

https://podtail.com/podcast/the-queers-to-the-front-podcast/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-queers-to-the-front-podcast/id1530882308

https://open.spotify.com/show/6nzsFmULG3kCB2giTovQRd

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Notes & Further Reading:

The author mentioned throughout the episode was wrongly named “Rachel Solnit”. The correct name is Rebecca Solnit. The quote that was referred to (“The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think") is a quote by Virginia Woolf that Rebecca Solnit uses as a starting point for her essay ‘Woolf’s Darkness,’ in ‘Men Explain Things To Me.’

The article that was referred to is: “American democracy dies in 60 days”, Umair Haque, Sep 5th, 2020, Eudaimonia & Co. - Link: https://eand.co/american-democracy-will-die-in-60-days-54ce25626c1c