If you want to go out and become an expert in salsa dancing, you will most likely be confronted with a fait amount of painful heteronormativity. Danyèla decided to not march in time to this tired beat. Instead she stubbornly kept correcting her dance teachers, and thus changed the language around salsa. From men and women to leaders and followers.

For the first time since the beginning of the show someone from France has found her way on the podcast. Something I’ve been trying to get done for four years. What’s more this episode: the importance of t.v. and a sudden realization.

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Flashback Track: Buena Vista Social Club – Chan Chan

Queer Artist Spotlight: Syd, Kehlani – Out Loud

Best Live Experience: Alicia Keys – Superwoman

Recent Discovery: Cubita – Mulher

Shownotes

Queer Salsa Paris: https://www.instagram.com/queersalsaparis/?hl=en

Suky is a booker and promotor for Queer As Punk, a queer music night in Edinburgh. Their political compass in booking gigs leads the way through a messy musical landscape. When bands and artists do the same, their paths might cross with a fun, safe concert for all parties involved. You can fuck off if you’re a racist, bigot, transphobe or just being a dick at shows.

What’s more this episode: cringey, unnecessary t.v. shows, a throwback to the very first QS episode and support from an unexpected corner of the UK.

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Flashback Track: The Clash – Should I Stay or Should I Go

Queer Artist Spotlight: Against Me! – True Trans Soul Rebel

Best Live Experience: Miaoumix – Putain

Most Recent Discovery: Sniff – Queer

Shownotes

Queer as Punk: https://www.instagram.com/queeraspunkedinburgh/

Pistol trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KhxwG0eCiE

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The war in Ukraine has been going on for more than half a year, so people tend to forget about this issue and focus on their regular daily lives. Not Amy. They’ve been sharing resources, helping refugees and showed support to a point where it became a full time job. How did they take the shift from more general queer activism to a specific Ukranian Refugee flow? They’ll explain in this episode.

Of course we happen to talk about Eurovison too. It kinda becomes a yearly tradition to bring up the Song Contest in September. American, Asian and African listeners, share your thoughts on the matter!

Content warning: queerphobia, war, racism.

Flashback Track: Nosowska – Rozszczep

Queer Artist Spotlight: Mashrou’Leila – Aoede

Best Live Experience: Tami T – I Never Loved This Hard This Fast Before

Most Recent Discovery: Go_A – Shum

Shownotes

Amy’s Resources: https://allmylinks.com/amy-waliszewska

Black is Polish: https://www.instagram.com/blackispolish/?hl=en

Right-wing election win in Sweden: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swedish-pm-andersson-concedes-election-right-bloc-prepares-power-2022-09-14/

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This podcast episode deals with some dark subjects, albeit not all too explicit. Since the Taliban took over Kabul, roughly a year ago, the lives of plenty of women and girls drastically changed. The Young Afghan Women Movement offers support and solidarity for these women. Hameeda is part of this movement. In this podcast she explains what motivates her and how she deals with the big questions that come with dealing with political conflict.

More this episode: Hameeda’s unique view on gender. Sometimes gender is a physical journey, sometimes it’s a spiritual one. She shows how the weird intersection between gender, music and religion can be in beautiful harmony.

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Flashback Track: Linkin Park – What I’ve Done

Queer Artist Spotlight: David Bowie – Heroes

Best Live Experience: Parvaaz – Roz Roz

Recent Discovery: Hemant Kumar – Jane Woh Kaise Log The

Shownotes

Young Afghan Women Movement: https://www.instagram.com/yawm_afghanistan/?hl=en

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It’s no secret that your location can hugely impact your mood, mental state and creative inspiration. However, the timing of when you change your environment is often overlooked in this. Singer and songwriter Eric Terino will tell you all about it. He moved from a quiet New England area to New York City and then back to the New England woods. This all had it’s effect on his music.

What’s more this episode: How to recreate the typical Van Gogh paint style, dealing with loss, and how different vocal takes can make a huge impact on your art. No matter how arbitrarily different they might be.

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Flashback Track: Fleetwood Mac – Landslide (Live)

Queer Artist Spotlight: Joan Armatrading – Taking My Baby Up Town

Best Live Experience: Marianne Faithfull, Nick Cave – There Is a Ghost

Recent Discovery: Eric Terino – I Din’t Live There

Shownotes

https://www.ericterino.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agoraphobia

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Something I’d Like to call the Harrison Ford effect is when people start a new career later in life. JD Danner used to work as an accountant but left Corporate America in order to pursue music. Now she has a professional career as an artist and she’s making quite a name for herself. Just like Ford, Danner proves that sometimes things take time.

Danner started her career in the 90’s, when Alanis Morissette, Tracy Chapman and other women making rock music were topping the charts. Her ambition to play in the same circles as these other women didn’t quite come true, but considering the transphobic brand of feminism that was common at the time that might just be a good thing. In the episode Danner reflects on how she lived through this era.

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Flashback Track: Stevie Wonder – My Cherie Amour

Queer Artist Spotlight: Melissa Etheridge – Like The Way I Do

Best Live Experience: Fleetwood Mac – Silver Springs

Episode Special: JD Danner – The Lover You Once Knew

Shownotes

https://JDDanner.com

Michfest (wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Womyn%27s_Music_Festival

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Whether we’re talking about a country’s march towards gender equality or one’s own personal progress, it always takes some effort. Latoya, or Toya K, is a singer-songrwiter from Namibia and she explains what she had to go through on a personal level, as well as what her experience has been as a queer artist in her home country. These things have in common that progress doesn’t always happen as fast as you’d want but rather one step at the time.

It’s been a treat to have Toya on the show. From the day we first met we knew this just had to happen and what better time to promote a friends art than during the QS Summer of Sound. Latoya hopes people learn something at her life shows and hopefully that also goes for listening to this podcast episode.

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Flashback Track: Nina Simone – Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

Queer Artist Spotlight: Brenda Fassie – Vuli Ndlela

Best Live Experience: Troye Sivan – Youth

Musical Feature: Toya K – On Time

Shownotes

Toya K’s info: https://linktr.ee/toyak

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As recommended by the QueerSounds collegian Maja, The QS summer of sound welcomes Eunice. She’s the bassist and singer for Vienna based band Curb, a pop punk Trio that she tries to get more and more queer, one song at the time. Together we discuss small easily digestible themes such as international politics.

With the current state of the world being what it is, more often than not we get our day ruined by whatever the twitter roit of the moment might be. Even as Europeans, we often get dragged into whatever is going on in American Politics. This podcast is also guilty as charged of some US-centrism, more than I’d like to admit. Which leaves the question: why should we care? (You can read this question in whichever way you like.)

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Flashback Track: Lights – Toes (Acoustic)

Queer Artist Spotlight: Kehlani – Honey

Best Live Experience: Skunk Anansie – Selling Jesus

Most Recent Discovery: Curb – Spit U Out

Shownotes

Curb IG: https://www.instagram.com/curbband/

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he QS Summer of Sound continues. We Kick off July with Jess Jessica: a ridiculously productive house producer from Colorado. She releases new music more often that most and for this episode she brought on a track no one has ever heard before. So stay tuned for this QS-exclusive at the end of the pod!

Her endless curiosity and determination are what sets Jessica apart from other artists. As soon as she got behind a computer, she would try and figure out how producing en music software works. Her time playing Herbie Hancock in school band fun, but Jessica wanted to know more.Playing drums, bass and producing everything herself and releasing tracks basically every other week, Jess is one of the coolest names to watch.

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Flashback Track: Herbie Hancock – Chameleon

Queer Artist Spotlight: SOPHIE – BIPP

Best Live Experience: Claude VonStroke – Make A Cake

Episode Special: Jess Jessica – [Untitled 1]

Shownotes

Jess Jessica on IG: https://www.instagram.com/jessjessicamusic/

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Content warning: Racism, queerphobia, misogyny, and a brief mention of self-harm.

In this second installment of the QS Summer of Sounds we’re giving you some insight in what it’s like to play festivals that attract more people than the population of your home country. As well as a short introduction to the Faroe Islands, its music scene and general public opinion on queer people. Be warned: it’s not great.

In order to shake things up a little bit, Joe and the Shitboys actively brand themselves as Bisexual. Under a false guise of neutrality people tend to think that conforming to the status quo is the best way to keep the peace. Joe and the Shitboys refuse to take part in this and bring some shock value to the Faroes because ” oh dear, they’re political!”

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Flashback Track: Slipknot – Wait and Bleed

Queer Artist Spotlight: Brimheim – hey amanda

Best Live Experience: The Dillinger Escape Plan – Prancer

Most Recent Discovery: Audrey Nuna – changes

Shownotes

https://joeandtheshitboys.bandcamp.com/

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