I am so lucky to have been in artist development at the network right as Logo TV was launching. It meant that I got to host TV shows (plural) on cable! My music videos played around the clock on Viacom properties — Logo, obviously — but also on VH1, MTV proper, and Spike TV (RIP The Man Channel lol).
It was a completely bonkers time in my life and I will always be grateful to MTV executives like Perry Turcotte back then who championed me into a reality where my vision and my songs found their way into over 26 million homes each week. This lasted for years and it was hard to comprehend the scale or impact at the time but I get it now. It has been 20 years and I’m very clear that I am still here, largely because of that.
34 years ago I stole a CD from Camelot Music at the mall in Midland, Michigan. It had just 3 words on the cover: KILL ROCK STARS.
This was the 90s and the only way to get music was to buy it or, if you were a gay kid growing up in a house where “secular music” was from the devil, put it down your pants and walk out, then hide it when you got home and hope your parents never find it. (Reader: They always did!)
Anyway, when I got this particular banned CD into my bedroom, it changed my ears forever. I heard Kurt Cobain’s voice for the first time and felt Kathleen Hanna’s power and agency in a way that grabbed me by the soul and just never let go. I found myself pretty desperate to escape the Midwest and find my people in Olympia and, decades later, I finally did.
I am so proud to be part of the Kill Rock Stars legacy and hope some queer or trans kid is shoplifting one of my albums from some corporate record store as I type this, hearing my songs and realizing there is a great big gay world out there (and a safe place for them in it).
Thank you to KRS for believing in me and my songs and my voice and my ideas about the world for all these years. Signing a pop act to a punk label will always be punk as hell, in my book.
Go check out my Kill Rock Stars catalog wherever you find music. Buy or stream it if you can! Steal it if you must.
xx
Logan
Apr 9, 2025Comments Off on Unconventional Season One is Now Streaming!
Congrats on a beautiful first season of Unconventional, everybody!
I’m proud to have soundtracked so many scenes this year and can never thank Kit Williamson enough for continuing to make this type of space on television for me and my songs, alongside so many talented folks.
Watch the season finale of Unconventional out now on Revry, featuring my cover of Kill For Love, the Classtronaut Remix of my cover of Kill For Love, and Everything You Touch Turns To Gold.
