Noah Kahan ended his headlining slot at the Rivière Stage at Osheaga festival in Montreal with Stick Season, bringing out Arlo Parks to sing half the song with him. Arlo had performed her own set earlier in the day on the Valley Stage.
Oh what a weekend I’ve had!
NOAH KAHAN BROUGHT OUT ARLO PARKS FOR STICK SEASON
*signed to a major label, billboard topping mainstream pop star*
her fans: ‘she’s so indie’
Okay, now I’m directly talking to Taylor Swift fans. Swifties. Hi. If you guys like underdogs, why not listen to actual up-and-coming independent songwriters? Here I’ll give you a few things to get started. You might really like them.
(Personally I think her song A Mess is an absolute banger, but this one might be more suited to Swifties’ taste. Check out A Mess though, and her whole new album Endless Affair though!)
I hope you like some of them at least!
Okay, new Arlo Parks album “takes inspiration from My Bloody Valentine and Fontaines D.C.”?? I cannot wait, I simply can’t wait! She’s already so good.
This week's show is out! As literally anyone who's hung around this blog this weekend knows, I've been all over the Glastonbury coverage. ALL over it! So we had lots of live performances from the festival, we had some Pride protest music, some new releases, lots of queer music (from Glastonbury itself because I will tell you: I just watched the festival all weekend long).
I also spoke to @desi-lgbt-fest on the show!! Really excited about this interview, we had 20 minutes of the interview on this Sunday's show, and the full 50-minute-long interview is coming out on Thursday (because I needed a little while to finish editing it lol).
Do listen to the Thursday release, it was so nice talking to the three mods of the Desi LGBT Fest, and they had some lovely and important things to say!!
Also if you enjoy the music listen to the show live I guess, I have to cut published/studio-recorded music in the podcast (copyright reasons).
Music for this week:
- Rina Sawayama
- Suede
- Skunk Anansie
- Rufus Wainwright (live there's the rest of his medley which was nice)
- Kae Tempest
- Arlo Parks (live)
- Little Simz and Cleo Sol (live)
- Denise Chaila (live)
- Grace Petrie
- Tom Robinson (This was the live performance on Tony Wilson's So It Goes in 1977 recorded in Manchester for Granada TV)
(Playlist links etc. in the description)
Here is the last Pride show for this year! I'd been doing Pride music by the decades all month in June for my radio station, and tbh there was too much popular queer music to fit into a single month so I stole a week from July for extended Pride...
The last week, we covered queer musicians in the 00s and 2010s, basically in the 21st century. There were far too any for me to hope to make a comprehensive guide in just an hour's episode, but should you want to listen, it has everything from electropop to ethereal post rock, anarcho-queer punk, spoken word, two-spirit rock, and Måneskin (while Eurovision is a queer genre unto itself...)
Featuring Against Me!, Kae Tempest, Arlo Parks, Sigur Rós, Rufus Wainwright, Peaches, Carolina Brown, SOPHIE, Bloc Party, Christine and the Queens, Måneskin, Lolly Gaggers, The Younger Lovers, and We Are The Union