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Rainbow Rodeo is a site, zine, and podcast devoted to promoting queer country artists. Edited by @rachelcholst.bsky.social
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Weekly @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social roundup just dropped: rainbowrodeomag.com/email/b36108...
The Week in Queer Country
Howdy, cowpokes, I hope this doesn't feel like spamming your inbox but I just reeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllly needed to fire off that Coward Country essay but we've had so much exciting writ...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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ALBUM REVIEW: Steve Roberts captures the spirit of @weakenedfriends.bsky.social' simmering rage on their grunge-inflected Feels Like Hell

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#QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #IndieRock #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq
A rock trio plays against an elaborate backdrop with panes of glass and latticework converging in a center point above the stage.
November 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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What do Zach Bryan, Gavin Adcock, and Jesse Welles have in common? They're all cowards.

Welcome to the age of Coward Country.

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Zach Bryan smiles and strums a guitar. He wears a black cut-off t-shirt. There is smoke in the background. Jesse Welles stares vacantly into a camera with an acoustic guitar perched on his lap. He sets in the middle of a misty glade. Gavin Adcock gazes vacantly into the camera. He wears a brown hat with a turquoise pin and peacock feather design on the center of the hat. He is also wearing a white collared shirt and brown vest.
November 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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@foxenlock.bsky.social nailed this review!
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REVIEW: Stefanie Cuthbert reviews the intimate highs and desolate lows of Troubadour, the long-awaited album from Boston's farm emo band Tiberius.

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#QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #nonbinary #lgbtq #NonbinaryMusician
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November 14, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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One of my favourite reviews for Tiberius so far. Thank you so much @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social! 🌈🤠
rainbowrodeo.bsky.social Rainbow Rodeo Magazine @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social · 5d
REVIEW: Stefanie Cuthbert reviews the intimate highs and desolate lows of Troubadour, the long-awaited album from Boston's farm emo band Tiberius.

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#QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #nonbinary #lgbtq #NonbinaryMusician
A group of four AMAB people jump in the air in a forest clearing. They are laughing and trying to look at the camera. They are all in various states of jumping.
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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REVIEW: Stefanie Cuthbert reviews the intimate highs and desolate lows of Troubadour, the long-awaited album from Boston's farm emo band Tiberius.

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#QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #nonbinary #lgbtq #NonbinaryMusician
A group of four AMAB people jump in the air in a forest clearing. They are laughing and trying to look at the camera. They are all in various states of jumping.
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Honored to have been part of this growth!
audiewoodlle.bsky.social Audie Wood @audiewoodlle.bsky.social · 7d
It is hard to believe it's been nearly 3 years since I did an interview with @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social and @rachelcholst.bsky.social .

Rachel and I bonded over a love of social justice and roots music and because of that I've discovered a lot of great music.
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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This week's Rainbow Ruckus features cruise control, homoerotic tension, Bluenecks, and honoring veterans.

Bobby Dove
@onnor McGee
Maia Sharp
Medium Build + Sydney Rose
@chrishousman.bsky.social

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A white transmasc person with shoulder-length dark hair parted down the middle stands against a red backdrop. They wear sunglasses and a denim jacket. They hold two mandolins in each hand with the necks crossed in front of them.
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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INTERVIEW: Melissa Carper crafts a home for us all in her upcoming album A Very Carper Christmas. We talk about tough holidays, cozy vibes, and how we can all encourage each other to be our best.

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A black and white close-up of a woman with long, dark hair singing into a microphone while playing standup bass. She is wearing an old-fashioned felt hat.
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Referring the admin’s emergency petition to the whole court would have slowed down getting the payments out. We expect a First Circuit decision within the next day, day and a half. Monday a.m. tops. Stay tuned.
stevevladeck.bsky.social Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10d
#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.

The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
November 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Over the last decade many of us have worked our asses off in public & behind the scenes in whatever ways we could on equity for LGBTQIA+ representation in roots and Americana; it’s a serious shame that in the last 18 months I’ve seen many of our gains disappear. We all deserve better.
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Unless I'm mistaken, there are zero (o) LGBTQIA+ nominees across all of the country, folk, roots, and Americana categories. We know the talent is there. Where are the institutional resources?
November 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Magna Mater isn’t due until tomorrow but you can hear it now thanks to @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social

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November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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ICYMI! A big thank you goes out to @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social for their wonderful review of Selections From The Sad Bastard Songbook!
rainbowrodeo.bsky.social Rainbow Rodeo Magazine @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social · 14d
Alexander Taurozzi guides us through the existential joys and sorrows of Selections From the Sad Bastard Songbook, the debut album of The Slow Harvest.

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#QueerCountry #Americana #Gothicana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq
An orange album cover designed to look like worn and stained leather. Brown text at top reads: the Slower Harvest. Brown text on bottom reads: Selections From the Sad Bastard Songbook. Text is in old-fashioned font. Illustration in the middle is a line drawing of a family in old-fashioned clothing staring at a burning sun or meteor. The father holds a telescope.
November 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Leilani Patao speaks to @rachelcholst.bsky.social of @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social ahead of the release of 'daisy' EP on Friday, and their 'DiscDrive' physical media celebration event on Saturday!

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INTERVIEW: Leilani Patao Builds Community, One Zine and Song at a Time
Brooklyn artist Leilani Patao is determined to get out of cyberspace and into the real world, one zine and one single at a time. We talk their upcoming EP daisy, and how they are building a world we a...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Yall, don’t sleep on ZDAN’s new album, SO WHAT!, out today! It’s rocking with some really piercing lyrics! My review for @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social rainbowrodeomag.com/zdan-so-what/
ZDAN - SO WHAT!
ZDAN's SO WHAT! perfectly captures mutiny in America, a state of being where those with half a brain unabashedly fight the good fight, writes Bee Delores.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Unless I'm mistaken, there are zero (o) LGBTQIA+ nominees across all of the country, folk, roots, and Americana categories. We know the talent is there. Where are the institutional resources?
November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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ALBUM REVIEW: ZDAN's SO WHAT! perfectly captures mutiny in America, a state of being where those with half a brain unabashedly fight the good fight, writes @beedelores.bsky.social

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A white woman with long, wavy blonde hair, a white shirt, leather hot pants, and fishnet tights kneels in apparent ecstasy while wielding a blonde Fender stratocaster. She is in a narrow wood-paneled room with wooden night stands and warm side table lamps. She is kneeling on a twin bed nestled between the night stands. The room is only wide enough for the furniture and the ceiling is unfinished.
November 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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PREMIERE: @flamygrant.bandcamp.com was truly touched by a goddess on her new song "Magna Mater" -- a hair-raising collision of ancient Greece and bone-deep Appalachia.

Photo by Kate Kelleher

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A drag queen in a white dress, auburn wig, and brass crown with a large baby bump lies on her back in a river.
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This week's Rainbow Ruckus features determination, drifting, duets, delights, and indecision.

David Michael Hawkins
@sarahmclachlann.bsky.social + Katie Gavin
Orville Peck
Palmyra
Jobi Riccio

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A man in a white t-shirt, beige cowboy hat, and black fringed mask stares into the camera. He sits in the back of a vintage car whose leather interior matches the hat.
November 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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INTERVIEW: Brooklyn artist Leilani Patao is determined to get out of cyberspace and into the real world, one zine and one single at a time. We talk their upcoming EP daisy, and how they are building a world we all want to live in.

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A person with light brown skin and shoulder-length straight hair parted down the middle lounges on a concrete staircase. They wear a black vest and tie with pins on it, a light blue shirt, black jeans, and black boots. The staircase appears to be on the side of a loading dock and the wall is painted bright red and neon green.
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Alexander Taurozzi guides us through the existential joys and sorrows of Selections From the Sad Bastard Songbook, the debut album of The Slow Harvest.

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#QueerCountry #Americana #Gothicana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq
An orange album cover designed to look like worn and stained leather. Brown text at top reads: the Slower Harvest. Brown text on bottom reads: Selections From the Sad Bastard Songbook. Text is in old-fashioned font. Illustration in the middle is a line drawing of a family in old-fashioned clothing staring at a burning sun or meteor. The father holds a telescope.
November 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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@weakenedfriends.bsky.social's lead singer Sonia Sturino and drummer Annie Hand check in to talk about what an indie rock band is doing on a country podcast, approaches to songwriting, and our millennial skin care routines.

Listen on our favorite podcast app now!
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October 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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REVIEW: @emchy.bsky.social has never sounded more confident in their gothic honky-tonk than on Queen of Assholes -- an album that celebrates charting your own course.

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#QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq
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October 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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This week's album review roundup features pastoral fantasies, gothic honky-tonk poptimism, and raucous punk creativity.

MORGXN
Bonnie and the Mere Mortals
Pinc Louds

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An illustration of a woman in a black catsuit riding a horse against a purple moonlight sky. The horse holds a bag that says Bonnie & The Mere Mortals in yellow thread. The text on the top is a stylized version of the album title: Take Me to the Moon. Green text at the top reads Heartland Part II: MORGXN. In the illustration, a white man sits on top of the cab of a pickup truck in a woodland clearing. He wears a white baseball cap, glasses, a light denim jacket, and wide-legged white pants. He is looking down into the bed of the truck and laughing. A person dressed as Jesus is sprawled in the bed of the truck. An illustration of a yellow moon against a royal blue sky. There is a bight taken out of it. On both sides are black mountainsides, with a darker field of blue in the middle that seems to be water. In small black text in the water is the phrase You Can't Eat the Moon and Be a Werewolf Too
October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Adam Mac's new album Southern Spectacle is essential listening for any queer country fan! My review for @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social! rainbowrodeomag.com/adam-mac-sou...
Adam Mac - Southern Spectacle
Bee Delores reviews Adam Mac's "extravagant and heartfelt" country pop masterpiece, Southern Spectacle.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM