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The Crystal Furs
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A queer indie pop music project from the Pacific Northwest. TERFs & fascists not welcome.

Find us at http://crystalfurs.gay
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this is what I get for not checking the account for months at a time ๐Ÿ˜… fyi itโ€™ll be easier to find me at @magicariot.com these days ๐Ÿ˜Š
July 31, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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To the person who emailed us through Bandcamp to let us know they bought a copy of "Gay Bar" to do a drag performance to it:

hell yeah

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Gay Bar, by The Crystal Furs
track by The Crystal Furs
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February 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Our Bandcamp is at crystalfurs.bandcamp.com and you can find streaming links at crystalfurs.gay
The Crystal Furs
We're a queer indie band from Portland, OR, making tunes about architecture, anxiety, and lesbians. We are Steph (she/her) + Kara (she/her) + Rowan (she/they).
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January 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Figure we should make ourselves known here so we can get off Instagram. ๐Ÿ˜… so:

Weโ€™re The Crystal Furs, a queer indie pop/rock band from Portland, Oregon. You may know us via our relation to @magicariot.com !

We are @tokenweirdgirl.bsky.social , @magicariot.com , and @rowanchurch.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Is anyone going to do anything? Ever? What's it going to take? You can't put out a song with an uncleared sample without putting yourself in legal jeopardy; meanwhile these people are openly stealing all of human creation and bragging about it! www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/t...
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems. Ahmad Al-Dahle, Metaโ€™s vice president of generative A.I., told executives that his team had used almost every available English-language book, essay, poem and news article on the internet to develop a model, according to recordings of internal meetings, which were shared by an employee. Meta could not match ChatGPT unless it got more data, Mr. Al-Dahle told colleagues. In March and April 2023, some of the companyโ€™s business development leaders, engineers and lawyers met nearly daily to tackle the problem. Some debated paying $10 a book for the full licensing rights to new titles. They discussed buying Simon & Schuster, which publishes authors like Stephen King, according to the recordings. They also talked about how they had summarized books, essays and other works from the internet without permission and discussed sucking up more, even if that meant facing lawsuits. One lawyer warned of โ€œethicalโ€ concerns around taking intellectual property from artists but was met with silence, according to the recordings. Mr. Zuckerberg demanded a solution, employees said. Metaโ€™s executives said OpenAI seemed to have used copyrighted material without permission. It would take Meta too long to negotiate licenses with publishers, artists, musicians and the news industry, they said, according to the recordings. โ€œThe only thing thatโ€™s holding us back from being as good as ChatGPT is literally just data volume,โ€ Nick Grudin, a vice president of global partnership and content, said in one meeting. OpenAI appeared to be taking copyrighted material and Meta could follow this โ€œmarket precedent,โ€ he added.
April 8, 2024 at 12:20 AM
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So glad we got to see our friends Artsick, Kids On A Crime Spree, and All-Girl Summer Fun Band live last night! What a blast of a show ๐Ÿ˜
Four people looking at the camera and smiling, in a darkly-lit music venue The band Artsick standing on stage performing in a black and white striped top while holding a guitar Kids on a Crime Spree performing a show in Portland at the Fixinโ€™ To All Girl Summer Fun Band performing live at the Fixin To in Portland
March 23, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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Guess what local queer indie band is recording this weekend๐Ÿ˜ˆ
March 16, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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Additionally, all our music is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license!
March 15, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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Every single thing we've released can be had digitally via Bandcamp for free. When you click on "Buy Digital Album," you'll note there is no minimum - you can put in 0, and get a free download. No strings attached! We just want you to have access to what we make! crystalfurs.bandcamp.com
The Crystal Furs
We're a queer indie band from Portland, OR, making tunes about architecture, anxiety, and lesbians. We are Steph (she/her) + Kara (she/her) + Rowan (she/they).
crystalfurs.bandcamp.com
March 15, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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So excited for our friends at developer Samobee - their game "Princess Farmer" is getting a physical release from Limited Run! Well deserved.

"Princess Farmer" has our LGBTQ rights song "Burn Us Down" in it. We can't believe we're gonna be on a game cartridge!

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Princess Farmer
Princess Farmer Only Available Until January 28, 2024 Princess Farmer is a match3 puzzle and visual novel game with easy to learn action mechanics and different difficulty levels that let you breeze t...
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February 18, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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It just occurred to me (Kara, OG founding member) that 2024 is the Crystal Furs' ninth anniversary. 2025 will be TEN YEARS. ๐Ÿ˜ณ

Here's to many more years of being that band some folks kind of know!
January 8, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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Aww yay! Thatโ€™s awesome!
December 24, 2023 at 12:15 AM
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Top of page on our links page for your listening pleasure are both of our most festive holiday numbers on all platforms: โ€œDrinking Alone on Christmasโ€ and our English cover of โ€œSnow Halationโ€ โ„๏ธ crystalfurs.gay
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View crystalfursโ€™s Linktree. Listen to their music on Spotify, Apple Music here.
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December 22, 2023 at 4:14 PM
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Thank *you!*
December 16, 2023 at 12:46 AM
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๐Ÿฅฐ California Misses You! Or Miss Hughes, haha.

Lyrics for all are on Bandcamp to confirm! crystalfurs.bandcamp.com/track/califo...
December 16, 2023 at 12:39 AM
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Now available: our English cover of the J-pop classic โ€œSnow Halationโ€ by ยตโ€™s. Please enjoy it this winter! crystalfurs.gay
The Crystal Furs | Instagram | Linktree
View crystalfursโ€™s Linktree. Listen to their music on Spotify, Apple Music here.
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December 1, 2023 at 6:36 PM
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Working on a new song. Going to find out soon enough what the overlap is between โ€œidol song fansโ€ and โ€œPacific Northwest queer indie rock band fans.โ€
October 28, 2023 at 10:52 PM
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Hello, Bluesky! We are The Crystal Furs, a queer indie pop/rock band from Portland, OR. We make music about anxiety, architecture, and lesbians, among other things.

We look forward to meeting you!

You can find our stuff at crystalfurs.gay, and this account is managed by @niconicorose.bsky.social
October 28, 2023 at 10:51 PM