POC/LGBTQ+ Musicians Thread

Hi people. Creating this thread to just bring about more awareness of POC/LGBTQ+ identifying musicians in the scene and out of the scene.

Here's a list of essentials/start off points:

Perfect Pussy
PWR BTTM
Big Joanie
Skinny Girl Diet
Mitski
Downtown Boys
Jay Som
Bleed The Pigs
Screaming Toenail
Shopping
Halsey
The Hotelier
Adult Mom
Vagabon
The Tuts
Shamir
I.C.E
Fist City
Wares

Edit: To help everyone find the styles/genres they would like add it to the end of your link or description of the artist!

 

I'm embarrassed that I still haven't listened to Bleed the Pigs

EDIT: Holy shit, they're really good

 

I'll get some bandcamp links in later

Emo Side Project
Tall Friend
Amanda Glasser
Imaginary Hockey League
Owel

 

Lady Queen Paradise
Still Water, by Told Slant

 

Baby Baby
Adia Victoria
Hero the Band
The Tontons
Heliotropes
Forget Tomorrow

 

Spur
Better Days

 

Oh yeah, Mineral Girls and Gottem too

 

Im a big fan of both these, but I was unaware they had any POC/LGBTQ+ musicians in them. What members do they have that are on that spectrum?

 

Emo Side Project uses "they" pronouns, Owel has an Asian singer and violinist.

 

Awesome, didn't know that about them. Thanks.

 

Crying too.

 

idk how I feel about the two being lumped together but some good stuff's been posted so far, will pop in later w links

 

home now and yeah, i really don't know how to describe it and obvs i'm just one person and my feelings shouldn't be given more weight than anyone else's, but it makes me really uncomfortable to have race and queerness grouped together. i know it's probably a lot more effective to have one thread for both since they're both marginalized groups and also that there are a lot of queer people of color that get overlooked in individual threads but it just feels so bad/weird to me to lump them together idk why i can't explain it.

anyway

nana grizol, cymbals eat guitars, high dive, infinity crush, and loner chic are some of my fav bands with queer members.

most of my favorite bands w/ POC members are local bands because thankfully we have a pretty racially diverse local scene here, but apart from that boris smile, swings, little big league, arrange (also queer i think), dead to me, are all great.

also not to be super shameless but i am nonwhite / bi / sort of nonbinary but like cis-passing i guess idk, and i make music :) link in my profile

 

I totally understand, I just found that when I created the last sort of thread, there was a lot of overlap and it'd be great in terms of diversifying and people finding cool stuff they would have missed. Also be shameless!!!

 

Some stuff I've been enjoying lately that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Alabama Shakes
Julia Nunes
Julien Baker
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
The Suffers
Better Days (I know they were already mentioned but fuck they're good)
Mineral Girls (again, already mentioned but Audrey is the cat's pajamas)
Perfume Genius
Troye Sivan
Jae Franklin
Laura Mvula
Yuna
Lower Dens

 

Seriously, listen to everyone and check out Mineral Girls if you haven't. One of the best bands out there right now

 

Always bitter that I never got to see Let's Get It. Tyler's in Dangerkids now, but God did I love their music in high school.

 

Y'all are seriously way too kind. *smooches*

Seeing some names in here I haven't checked out before. Excited to do some exploring when I get back from tour.

 

Most of mine aren't from the scene but here you go:

Abhi//Dijon
Allison Weiss
Courtney Barnett
Empress Of
The Internet
Lianne La Havas
Now, Now (surprised they haven't been mentioned yet)
Palehound

 

mineral girls should come to ireland (i'm sorry but i'm gonna spam this in every thread cause i'm so sad about not being able to see them live :()

also I'm so here for this thread, the one on ap really opened up a lot of great bands for me.

my first contribution to the thread, is my avatar Cakes da Killa

 

@morgantayler Good call on Lianne La Havas. She's fantastic

 

idk why I haven't just posted this but: playlist w Black artists / playlist w Asian/AsAm artists
Some faves from each one:
St. Beauty

Aye Nako (can technically fall under both lists, like myself which makes me happy)

Eyes Eat Suns (can also fall under both!)

Charlene Kaye (now in San Fermin)

The Vincent Black Shadow

 

Also, great video from Heartsupport with one of my local faves in Baby Baby:

 

Five Needle - EP by Wynter Gordon on iTunes

 

Barf Troop! (Come on, a Sailor Moon sample.)

Each member has their own projects going on as well, and they're all so talented.

Also, Princess Nokia samples Dragon Ball. I'm alive.