Errattic: Music Tagged as 'Inspired'

Black queer artists like Ma Rainey, James Baldwin, Nina Simone, Lorraine Hansberry, and Essex Hemphill have all made it a bit easier for me to dream. I was born in a perfect era as a feminine black gay man interested in being apart of pop culture and music to have a fighting chance of making a living off of that desire. The dreams I’m dreaming are large, but tangible. They are made possible because of the legacies black gay artists before me have left.

However, there is no black gay artist that opened up my imagination about who I can be while affirming who I am like disco icon—often referred to as The Queen of Disco—Sylvester.

Noisey

Tags: Celebrity, Gay, Gaycon, Inspired, Music, Portrait, Respect, Tribute

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29-Jun-2018

"Lovely" - Billie Eilish with Khalid

Alice & The Giant Emptiness

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Tags: All Rights, Animation, Dedication, Environment, Equality, Gay, Hypocrisy, Inspired, Let's Not Forget, Music, Mystery, Opinion, Portrait, Reimagined, Reinterpreted, Relationships, Respect, Re-tooled, Tribute, Video Gay Swatch, World

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21-May-2018

Do men accused of misconduct deserve to have their music in event playlists? These DJs weigh in.

After the rise of the #MeToo movement in October, when survivors of sexual abuse began speaking out about their experiences with new volume and frequency, several powerful men in various segments of the culture were outed for predatory behavior. And that’s led to a wider conversation about sexual harassment and misconduct; in the context of the entertainment and music industries, there’s the thorny question of whether it’s possible or defensible to separate an artist from the art.

In this social climate, DJs are thinking about the role they have to play in all of this.

“As DJs, we literally make a song hot or not,” said Fab Roc, a New York City-based DJ who has spun at corporate pop-up events and local hip-hop and R&B parties. “If we stop playing certain people’s music at events, it speaks volumes and it can also set the trend for people to care.”

Mic

Tags: Action, Club Scene, Environment, Feminism, Inspired, Music, Rap, Sexism, Sexual Harrassment, Stepping Up, Unity

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06-Apr-2018

Without LGBTQ People, Modern Music Wouldn't Exist

VICE: What initially made you decide to write this book?

Darryl W. Bullock: I wanted to write a book about LGBTQ people making records, but to be honest, it was a bit dull. It was starting to look a bit like an encyclopedia, an A-to-Z of gay musicians. Then, maybe three or four months into the project, David Bowie died, and his death struck me really viscerally.

But it was while I saw how others reacted to his death, especially the stars I grew up with—the Boy Georges and the George Michaels and the Madonnas—that I realized I was going down the wrong track. I realized the book shouldn’t just be about LGBTQ people making records, but how they influenced each generation that followed. You start to build up this timeline, and it stretches back over 100 years, almost back to the birth of commercially available discs.

It was also a definite decision to include voices you don’t hear of. It would be easy to write a book just about Elton John, George Michael, Boy George, Freddie Mercury, those kinds of people. But I really wanted to document the lives of people like Patrick Haggerty, Blackberri and John “Smokey” Condon (pic above), people who have made incredibly important contributions to music and to LGBTQ lives but have been basically ignored by the mainstream media.

Vice

Tags: All Rights, Business, Celebration, Celebrity, Entertainment, History, Inspired, Interview, LGBTQ, Music, Opinion, Pride, Tribute

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21-Nov-2017

Chester Bennington, Linkin Park Frontman, Dead At 41

Law enforcement officials told TMZ that the singer was found in his home in Palos Verdes Estates in L.A. County on Thursday morning. The Los Angeles Coroner spokesman Brian Elias told The Associated Press that authorities are investigating Bennington’s death as an apparent suicide, but no additional details are available.

Bennington had struggled with drug use in the past, and, according to TMZ, had spoken about taking his own life after being a victim of child abuse. The singer opened up about his experience with drugs in a 2016 interview with TeamRock.com, saying, at one point, he was “on 11 hits of acid a day.”

Huffington Post

Tags: Entertainment, Inspired, Let's Remember, Passing, Respect, Rock, Tribute

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20-Jul-2017

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