reviews, releases and recommendations of LGBT media
I did it, I finally got to the end of the year with those posts! Soon I will be actually letting you all know about songs that came out a month before.
But in the meantime, check out those bops from last December and hopefully discover some new favourite artists!
And if you need even more music, just check out all my previous posts right here!
What better time to discover new LGBT music than when you’re stuck at home, right?
I won’t lie, guys, some of my fav songs of the year are on this list! Prepare to be amazed, please. And just like, have some fun during those weird times!
If the songs featured here are not enough for y’all, remember you can just check out all my previous posts right here!
Guys, look, I almost made it to the end of the year with my posts! I am so close to being up to date, I can nearly taste it!
And anyway, here are 10 of my absolutely favourite songs that came out in October and even more songs in the Spotify mix. You can it at the bottom of the post!
And if you have never been here before, you can catch up on my previous posts here!
Every month of 2019 was great to us, music wise, but September was especially good. Some of my favourite LGBT songs of the year are in this post!!
Per tradition, there are 10 songs in the post itself and a lot more in the Spotify mix. You can find it at the bottom of the post!
And if you have never been here before, you can catch up on my previous posts here!
I’m almost caught up, guys! We’re in the second half of the year with this series already! Soon I will actually be doing it on time…
Anyway, here are my 10 most favourite songs by LGBT artists dropped in August 2019 + a lot more on the Spotify mix which you can find at the end of the post.
And if you have never been here before, you can catch up on my previous posts here!
I decided to change it up a little bit from now on. Mostly because choosing only ten songs each month is giving me anxiety… So the way it’s gonna work now is this: I will still decide which ten songs were my absolute favourites from a month and include them in the post.
But I will also put all the songs I loved on the mix, which is always a bonus part of the post anyway. (I might update the old mixes so check them out, too!)
And for those of you who are here for the first time, you can catch up on my previous posts here!
Yes, I know, those posts tended to feature ten songs (and a headache for me, when I had to cut the lists to just ten titles…), but I figured, you know… June was Pride month. What better excuse to include more songs? Right?
Which is to say today I bring you 20 songs by LGBT artists that came out in June 2019 and are my absolute best of all the songs from that month.
In case you missed it: my January, February, March, April & May choices!
(And remember, there’s a Spotify playlist with all the songs at the end of the post!)
It’s a great problem to have when there’s so much music by LGBT artists coming out every month, that it’s impossible to chose top ten songs! And I’m doing it for you guys, I’m choosing my absolutely all-time favourites!
In case you missed it: my January, February, March & April choices!
(And remember, there’s a Spotify playlist with all the May songs at the end of the post!)
April was a really good month for music and it was extremely hard for me to choose just ten songs! The things I do for you guys… Hopefully y’all will love my faves just as much as I do!
In case you missed it: my January, February & March choices!
(And remember, there’s a Spotify playlist with all the April songs at the end of the post!)
I’m not going to lie, guys. Choosing only ten songs each month is really hard work! But I needed an even number for all the months so really, I played myself…
This also brings me to another point: obviously, if I put a song from a full album on this list & not a single, I encourage y’all to check them all out! Check out the artists in general!
Here you can also check out my 10 fav songs of January and February.
(And remember, there’s a Spotify playlist with all the March songs at the end of the post!)
Yes, I was very serious when I said I plan on catching up with those posts in some reasonable, timely manner! And frankly, I’m just really excited about all my choices and want to share with you guys as soon as possible!
The ten songs I chose January are here!
So without a further ado, let’s go!
(And remember, there’s a Spotify playlist with all the February songs at the end of the post!)
I wanted to make some kind of music rec list because despite claiming this is an LGBT media blog, we don’t really talk about much apart from books. And, in part thanks to a twitter poll I ran, I figured a “fav songs of the year” kind of post might be a good idea. But then I started listing songs and the number grew & grew & grew… Until I realised I have no choice but to make this “fav songs of a month” instead.
Yes, I’m aware it’s the end of October. But that just means I have some catching up to do! You can expect those posts every few weeks, until I get to the point where I can just make a rec list at the end of each month as it ends.
Anyway, important notes: all the songs I will list are by out LGBT artists, because this is the kind of blog we’re running here. And I’ll be linking them to YouTube and putting all songs together in a playlist on Spotify in case anyone wants to check them out that way. The playlist (with more songs!) is at the end of the post!
We don’t talk about music a lot on our blog, but I guess when we do, it’s with a bang! Which is to say, I’m here today with a list of 60 LGBT artists. And yes, I say artists, not just songs – each and every one of them is an out member of our community. (Well, there are a few bands and some of them only have a lead singer who matches that description, but you know!)
I had to make some decisions regarding the way of presenting all this beauty to you. First of all, I divided those sixty artists into three groups of wlw, mlm & those who are not cis. (I was gonna go with “trans/nonbinary”, but there are also genderfluid, gender nonconforming artists, even a Two-Spirit one, so I figured I need a pretty broad umbrella term here). Obviously, there are some intersections within those groups, but I wanted even numbers… And lastly, I linked them all to my favourite album/single of theirs on Spotify, so I could put covers & make it all look pretty.
So! Take a quiz and figure out who should you listen to!* Or just scroll through them all.
*Charlotte made me specify that when I say “dancing alone in your room” in the quiz, what I mean is dancing slowly with your eyes closed, the sound of rain coming through the window & maybe by the end of it you won’t be as tired anymore.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who still can’t believe Mary Oliver died. She was such an amazing person, such a calming force in this world. Her poetry was always simple but evoking the most complicated feelings; delicate but hitting straight in the heart with a power of a bulldozer. She was one of a kind. She was making the world a softer place just by sharing her words with us.
So I was wondering how to celebrate her beautiful legacy on Reads Rainbow, because there was no doubt in my mind we have to talk about a lesbian poet as iconic as her. And I decided that as much as I love her poetry, I want to do something different. I mean, I can let you know what are my favourite collections of hers… But I wanted to translate her tenderness into another medium. Hence the songs.
What works better with poetry than music, right? (I’m from Poland, we have a whole genre literally called ‘sung poetry’. Remind me to talk about that more some day.)
I selected six songs by sapphic artists that sounded to me as softly as Mary’s poems. I hope you’ll enjoy. And when you’re already at it, check out what 2018 LGBT music videos I recommended the other day.
