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Rainbow Rodeo Magazine
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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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Get your queer country zines, hats, t-shirts and...boot conditioner???

That's right -- it's the Rainbow Rodeo gift guide -- get something awesome for your favorite people!

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#QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq
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November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Katy Guillen & The Drive deliver raw compelling rock'n'roll on their album Make That Sound and @tacilim.bsky.social lived to tell the tale about it in his review. He writes that this album is perfect for a road trip so we are sending it out to any Thanksgiving travelers!

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November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Looking for the perfect gift for the queer country lover in your life?

We got you!

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#QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #TransMusic #TransMusician #lgbtq #trans #transgender
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November 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: Editor @rachelcholst.bsky.social reviews The Hours Are Long But the Pay is Low, the memoir of Bloodshot Records co-founder @Millerscave.bsky.social Miller impresses on us a devotion to authenticity, independence, and community.

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November 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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REVIEW: @hauntedlikehuman.bsky.social touch on American mythologies and improve them -- or tear them down -- in an album that @beedelores.bsky.social proves that "everything they touch turns to gold."

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A couple lounge on a sofa in an elaborate, traditionally-decorated room with warm colors and an Oriental rug. The person on the left has long hair, a beard, glasses, a brown blazer and jeans. He holds a guitar. The person on the right has short, curly red hair, a green blazer and jeans. They lean on the person on the left, gazing up at the ceiling.
November 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Got cool merch? We want to help you sell it for the holidays! (Especially if it's more than a t-shirt with a band name!)

Comment on this post or DM us before MONDAY, 11/24!

We're in this together, and we want to support the queer country community this winter!
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November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Got cool merch? We want to help you sell it for the holidays! (Especially if it's more than a t-shirt with a band name!)

Comment on this post or DM us before MONDAY, 11/24!

We're in this together, and we want to support the queer country community this winter!
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November 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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In time for (American) Thanksgiving, @rbmarcus
examines how queer people -- especially country fans -- need to fight for every square inch of safe space. We shout out queer line dancing parties like Spurs (Montreal and Toronto) and The Outlaws in Albaquerque!

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November 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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REVIEW: @beedelores.bsky.social tips her hat to Orville Peck's stunning Appaloosa EP -- according to Bee, it's one of the best of the year.

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#QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq #OrvillePeck
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November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Got cool merch? We want to help you sell it for the holidays! (Especially if it's more than a t-shirt with a band name!)

Comment on this post or DM us before MONDAY, 11/24!

We're in this together, and we want to support the queer country community this winter!
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November 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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This week's Rainbow Ruckus features the sweet hereafter, traditional fiddle, intoxicating cowboy dreams, forbidden fruit, and finding love in a Tyler Perry movie.

The Kentucky Gentlemen
Sweet Petunia
@boygolden.bsky.social and Cat Clyde
Bad Flamingo
Allison Russell

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November 18, 2025 at 4:28 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
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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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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 12, 2025 at 11:15 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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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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November 10, 2025 at 11:20 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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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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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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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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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
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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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This week's Rainbow Ruckus features big breakups, big feelings, big transcendental experiences, and crocheted gifts.

Melissa Carper
@katiepruitt.bsky.social and @jessnolan.bsky.social
@straysongdog.com
No Lonesome
Lydia Loveless

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October 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM