Big news today! Stargayzer Festival, the first multi-day music event of its kind dedicated to LGBTQ artists, just announced the second round of performers — a performance on the main stage by yours truly included! The festival will be held September 12th-14th, 2014 at Carson Creek Ranch, a private, 20-acre property just east of Austin. The festival will encompass three main stages, including an amphitheater stage on the banks of the Colorado River.

Among the highlights of today’s announcement are New Orleans “Queen of Bounce,” Big Freedia, poet and hip hop performance artist Mykki Blanco from New York, the powerhouse performance collective known as the San Francisco Album Project, Seattle-based dream pop quartet Night Cadet, plus Los Angeles comedian, star of VH1’s Best Week Ever, Brad Loekle…and ME, of course.

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Highlights from the first round of artist announcements included synth pop sensation Austra, experimental Canadian electro group Trust, avant-garde musical duo Xiu Xiu, art-punk group and recent Kylie Minogue collaborator SSION, drag terrorist CHRISTEENE, queer hip-hop icon Cazwell, producer, DJ and MEN lead singer JD Samson, former LCD Soundsystem member Gavin Russom’s latest project the Crystal Ark, emerging queer rapper Cakes Da Killa, and from the first season of The Voice, the blues crooner Nakia. The DJ line up includes vogue/ballroom innovator MikeQ, the futuristic hip-hop sounds of Kingdom, and the San Francisco based DJ collective Honey Sound System. As for drag performers, the legendary Peaches Christ will join Mitzy Meyers (aka Junebug) of New Orleans, the girls of Hot Nuts Toronto, Ambrosia Salad of Los Angeles, and Austin’s most notable dame, Rebecca Havemeyer.

Full lineup (so far):

See you this summer, Texas!  Get tickets HERE.

For those of you who missed our 2014 Mo Wave showcase, I’m sorry! It was really fun. Wish you could have been there with us. Here are a few clips of me and my wild band boys Gino Mari (on guitar/backup vocals) and AC (on drums) getting down to “Turn Me Out”, a brand new song called “Break Me Down” from my forthcoming 2015 record, and “Tramp Stamps and Birthmarks” LIVE at Chop Suey as we open Day 3 of this year’s festival.

Put on headphones that can handle bass so it doesn’t sound like shit, then click HERE to watch on YouTube, or press play below.
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