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08/23/2025

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07/15/2025

G Flip is taking us back to the Eighties. On Thursday, the Australian star announced that they will release their third album, Dream Ride, on Sept. 5 inspired by the sound of the era — and channeling an alter ego they’re nicknaming “Butch Springsteen.”

“When diving in and writing this record, I was sonically captivated by the ’80s. I love the use of reverb, the drum tones, all the sonics, the musicality, the soloing, and big drum moments,” G Flip said in a press statement. “I also really wanted to make a world to accompany the music and storytelling. I kept asking myself, ‘Who would I have been in the 80’s? What would I wear, what haircut would I have, and what car would I drive?’”

They add: “The answer is Butch Springsteen, the masc le***an, non-binary, drumming, singing pop star that never existed.”

Read more about the upcoming album here: https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/g-flip-announces-eighties-inspired-album-dream-ride-79724/

07/06/2025

This week in WR&R history: July 5, 1997, the first Lilith Fair festival tour kicked off in Washington state--the city of George to be exact. Founded by international music icon Sarah McLachlan, playing 32 dates around the US with an additional five in Canada, the tour grossed 16 million dollars, ten million of which was donated to charities. Musicians performing that year included Sheryl Crow, India Arie, Tracy Chapman, Jewel, Joan Osborne, Cassandra Wilson, Susannah Hoffs, Pat Benatar, Davina, Morcheeba, Fiona Apple and Indigo Girls--just to name a few--with 71 bands/artists in all.
From the article:
"Lilith Fair was the culmination of a year of work by its founder, a Canadian singer-songwriter. Sarah McLachlan had been told by music and concert industry executives that putting more than one woman back-to-back on a lineup or radio playlist wouldn't sell. "Like, I'd walk in and do an interview and they said, 'Well, we'd love to add this song but we can't add you this week because we had a Tori Amos or because we added Tracy Chapman or because we added Sinéad O'Connor,'" she recalls. "And it was extremely frustrating. So the beginning of this was just born out of a desire to come together as a community. And it became this — we're going to break down some barriers. We're going to prove these guys wrong."

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/05/1108635464/25-years-on-lilith-fair-is-a-reminder-of-how-one-womans-radical-idea-changed-mus?fbclid=IwAR3Nn1PNTxSPBbulO-Ad7q-lScJGsyhS1HbbU5APadJkkTPJyIjiIySXgfQ

I would highly recommend this narrative which features not just the performers, but the women and men behind the scenes giving firsthand accounts of what led up to Lilith Fair, the reactions, the stuff that went on, the effect it had on the public then and now--fascinating reading.

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/09/an-oral-history-of-lilith-fair?srsltid=AfmBOopQKLz-67brrK-tmGSj0SC04IzHg6NJYqI9H_byO1BFip9kyfPu

06/03/2025

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happy pride month, my beautiful family. to the ones who know both the ache and beauty of becoming.

what an honor it is to be q***r. it is truly one of my life’s biggest gifts that has allowed me to live with such an open heart and curiosity about all the ways it wants to be expressed, held & celebrated. oh the places it has taken me.

i’m so grateful to grow alongside you. i see you, i love you and i am with you always.

see you soon.

04/30/2025

JUST ANNOUNCED 🎤Melissa Etheridge and The Indigo Girls are bringing the Yes We Are Tour to Bridgeport on September 16! 🌻☀️

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🎟Tickets available Friday, May 2 at 10AM: https://bit.ly/4cMUJ8U

Part of the Xfinity Concert Series.

04/27/2025

Le****ns have been making great music for over a hundred years! 🧡🩷🤍

04/11/2025

Happy Spring from Sister Funk! - https://mailchi.mp/4a338f7b48ff/happy-spring-from-sister-funk

03/29/2025

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