Queer

Compiled By Jon Savage. Jon Savage’s inspired new compilation Queer Noises 1961-1978 (From the Closet to the Charts) is a labour of love, a celebration, a story of resistance and personal triumphs and an exercise in setting music history less straight. Its 24 tracks from the UK and USA of music with ‘explicit or fairly implicit queer themes’ are arranged in a chronological order, a long, hard-earned fade-out that culminates with Sylvester’s You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (1978). Musically it has a little bit of everything from cabaret, spoken word, Beat, Soul, Mod, Country, Psychedelic rock, Disco (of course), and yes, even some Punk.

Smart, witty, a talented lyricist and an electrifying live performer, Grace Petrie can take the most hostile room and by the end of the night they will be singing along, 'Stand up today that we might save tomorrow!' Given all of this, it's no surprise she's toured in support of Billy Bragg, toured for ten years as a self-sustaining DIY artist with virtually no mainstream media coverage and yet when this May she announced a Kickstarter campaign for the recording of her first full studio album 'Queer As Folk' she reached the £10,000 target in twenty-four hours and almost doubled that amount by the end of the two week campaign.

Smart, witty, a talented lyricist and an electrifying live performer, Grace Petrie can take the most hostile room and by the end of the night they will be singing along, 'Stand up today that we might save tomorrow!' Given all of this, it's no surprise she's toured in support of Billy Bragg, toured for ten years as a self-sustaining DIY artist with virtually no mainstream media coverage and yet when this May she announced a Kickstarter campaign for the recording of her first full studio album 'Queer As Folk' she reached the £10,000 target in twenty-four hours and almost doubled that amount by the end of the two week campaign.

Liner notes by Dave Gelly: The merest glance at the titles and composers of these twelve songs should tell you that Sue McCreeth is not your average jazz singer: pieces by popular songwriters (Ray Noble and Noel Coward), jazz composers (Stan Tracey and Alison Rayner), European composers of the early 20th century (Frederick Delius and Ralph Vaughan Williams) – and, of course, by Sue herself. And the remarkable thing about it is that, when she sings them, they all seem to belong together. She sings in a warm, intimate voice and a deceptively simple style.

Talented and flamboyant British synthesizer act whose pop focus helped achieve steady success on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1980s. Collection includes: Side Kicks (1983); Into The Gap (1984); Here's To Future Days (1985); Close To The Bone (1987); Big Trash (1989); Queer (1991).

Four albums and seven Grammy® nominations later, Garbage has its first best of collection – Absolute Garbage. Along with the new track Tell Me Where It Hurts, Absolute Garbage features 17 songs of extreme and intense emotion, from Stupid Girl, Queer and #1 Crush to Special, Bleed Like Me and Why Do You Love Me.
The special limited edition 2-CD set adds to the original CD a bonus disc of remixes by some of the world s most renowned DJs, including U.N.K.L.E., Massive Attack, Todd Terry, Crystal Method, Fun Lovin Criminals, and Felix Da Housecat.
Absolute Garbage offers the best of a band that, to quote a lyric from Queer, has been the strangest of the strange, the coolest of the cool.

Sun Ra and the Arkestra played a week of eleven concerts at the Detroit Jazz Center. The shows were organized and soundboard recorded by Rick Steiger (a collaborator of John Sinclair). On New Year's Eve the Arkestra performed nearly a hundred Sun Ra compositions in three different sets. Remastered from the original cassette soundboard recordings by Christopher Eddy. Limited edition of 500 copies, originally a 28 cd-r set from 2007 in an edition of 400.

Chart-topping rock band who blend shimmering electronic pop with Shirley Manson's emotive vocals. Collection includes: Garbage (1995); Version 2.0 (1998); Beautiful Garbage (2001); Bleed Like Me (2005).

Heavily influenced by The Ramones and many of today's Pop Punk artists, The Sheckies were in the forefront of the "Pogo Punk" movement. The Band formed in February 2004, and their songs noted for their simplicity, brevity, high energy and fun lyrics. An absolute champion stuff!