#trans music
Strip Down - You Can’t Know Me
You’re lying through your teeth
Berlin-based artist Elie Gregory has returned from a hiatus with the defiant track “You Can’t Know Me.” Infectious synths zip around their cool-headed vocals while the music video, filmed in reverse, shows a downpour of colorful paints slowly dripping upwards into nothingness. After revealing their piercing gaze, Gregory is vulnerable but in control of their image. “Marking a new chapter in their career, the raw and unapologetic exposure represents not just a release from imposed gender norms – but acknowledges the stains they leave behind” (EPK).
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LAL - Dead Happiness
Vantage off the ledge
Entering their 20th year as a duo, LAL are bringing their “diasporic electronic” music to Toronto and beyond (VICE). Their new music video for “Dead Happiness” is a visual funhouse shrouding a dark theme. Wearing opalescent makeup and eye-catching costumes, vocalist Rosina Kazi and co. dance to producer Nicholas Murray’s complex soundscape. Kazi denounces the conformity and complacency that she sees around her, longing instead to express herself freely and pursue her own wants and needs.
In their own words, LAL wants “to give rise to compassion in a world that continually sells us cruelty. We aspire to make room for new ideas and ways of being that are connected to the past, while at the same time dancing with the future.”
Follow LAL on Instagram and Twitter at @lalforest.
Trans Music
some cool songs with explicitly trans themes (and with a few exceptions all by trans artists!)
for trans ladies
- boy in a dress by namoli brennet
- delicate, petite & other things ill never be by against me!
- family by she/her/hers
- for today i am a boy-antony & the johnsons
- g.l.o.s.s by g.l.o.s.s
- gender is boring by she/her/hers
- genderless by jonesin and the hurt
- girl its your time by vivek shraya
- i am her by shea diamond
- i could use a hug by girls rituals
- identity by mina caputo
- invertible penis by polythene pam
- lined lips and spiked bats by g.l.o.s.s
- love is not love by too attached
- masculine artifice by g.l.o.s.s
- middle age transsexual theme song by polythene pam
- outcast stomp by g.l.o.s.s
- part time woman by vivek shraya
- salt by bad suns
- tall girl posse by polythene pam
- targets of men targets of men-g.l.o.s.s
- thoughts and prayers by black dresses
- touch and go by john grant
- trans is love by marissa kay
- transgender dysphoria blues-against me!
- transworld by girls rituals
- transylvania by kim petras
- true trans soul rebel by against me!
for trans men
- binary by spook school
- burn masculinity by spook school
- changes by jake edwards
- daughter by ryan cassata
- daughterson by coyote grace
- dysphoria by saint wellesley
- fagette by athens boys choir
- ftm at the dmv by schmekel
- gay shame by schmekel
- ghost boy by coyote grace
- guy named joe by coyote grace
- hold my yod by schmekel
- im your man by lucas silveira
- man enough by katastrophe
- pink & blue by jake edwards
- maybe she’s shomer negiyah by schmekel
- new men with old man names-schmekel
- second puberty by jake edwards
- tell me a story by skylar kergil
- the binding of isaac by schmekel
- the trans slam by ryan cassata
- the village by wrabel
- you can’t tell me by jake edwards
- you’re not the only bear ive fisted-schmekel
for nonbinary folks
- am i a girl? by poppy
- aquafina by cj run
- body was made by ezra furman
- gender bronoun by human kitten
- gender fluid by elbe
- gender queer by lip shit queers
- genderqueer love song by schmekel
- girl or boy by dani shay
- just me (gender binary blues)-jinkx monsoon
- precious by jay boogie
- sex:male;gender:whatever-human kitten
- they/them by atlas
- they/them/theirs by worriers
for gay nb/trans people
- aquafina by cj run
- fagette by athens boys choir
- flirting with her by sir babygirl
- gay shame by schmekel
- hold my yod by schmekel
- homocoming king by athens boys choir
- i lost my innocence by ezra furman
- return to sender by cj run
- spaghetti by cj run
- straight boy by shamir
- tangerine by cj run
- the metrosexual threw off my gaydar-athens boys choir
- you’re not the only bear ive fisted-schmekel
transmusic.org is a daily blog featuring music from transgender musicians around the world. Check back daily for tracks, albums, videos, articles, pictures, events, reviews, merch, essays, fundraisers and history lessons.
This blog is a lot of work to maintain, and I appreciate suggestions for posts, especially news articles and cool merch. I am happy to promote shows, events, and fundraisers related to music by trans people, as well as opportunities for trans musicians.
If you are a trans musician, get in touch.
If you DO NOT want to be featured on this site, I totally understand, just let me know. I try to only post music from:
a) musicians who are actually trans and
b) out as such,
but if I mess up, please tell me.
About me: I am a non-binary musician from Durham, North Carolina. If your band is ever touring through NC, I would love to interview you!
Hey… long time no post! Just wanted to share this rad project by Riley D (Empty Disco, Tranzister Radio’s southern correspondent). Subscribe for daily trans jams.
Tranzister Radio Episode 40 - November 12th, 2015
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The Public Processing Episode. Guests: Miki Mappen,Enok Ripley,Raphaele Frigonand outgoing host Morgan Sea, discuss Facebook politics, calling in, local zine fair politics, and Morgan’s decision to leave the show! Good times had! Featuring Music by Velvet Fist,Symbiotic Trans Action,Femmepire,Empty DiscoandLocal Honey
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