Oh haaaaay world! Tickets for the Accidental Bear Queer Music Summer Tour Benefit For LGBTQ Mental Health Services & Suicide Prevention with Logan Lynn, Big Dipper, Conquistador, Darling Gunsel, and Rica Shay go on sale May 1st.
The Kickstarter raised a portion of money to make this tour happen, but we are still looking for sponsors to help us cover expenses so we can play these shows and donate the proceeds to Ali Forney Center (NYC), Pride Foundation (Seattle), Q Center (PDX), LA Gay & Lesbian Center, and Stonewall Project (SF). Putting together a 5-band tour takes a bit of cash…but nowhere near as much cash as the tour stands to raise for these vital community resources this summer!
If you are an individual, business, corporation, or organization and you are interested in showing your support of the LGBTQ community, a great way to do that is to become a sponsor of this tour! Click HERE to download the official sponsorship packet. We are especially needing travel and accommodations sponsors, but welcome anyone who would like to get involved in this part of the charity. Additionally, we realize not everyone can donate money or services, but everyone can help us spread the word. Share this post if you feel moved to contribute, friends!
Click to enlarge the tour posters below and RSVP to the event page in your city.
We are coming for you…
Friday, July 5th – Beatbox, San Francisco, CA
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Sunday, July 7th – Los Globos, Los Angeles, CA
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Thursday, July 11th – Mississippi Studios, Portland, OR
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Sunday, July 14th – Chop Suey, Seattle, WA
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Friday, July 19th – Webster Hall, New York City, NY
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One of my favorite remixes of one of my songs is Flufftronix’s mix of “Feed Me To The Wolves” and it has been remastered and re-released by Fluffy himself. Download the remix for zero dollars HERE or click on the album cover below. Cool, huh?
From the Flufftronix Soundcloud page:
Recently I’ve been kind of rethinking my entire approach to making music, oddly enough around a quote from Cher, “If it doesn’t matter in five years, it doesn’t matter.” Music is more disposable now than it’s ever been; trying to make music that transcends flavor of the month should really be a major concern if you want to last past a few internet cycles.
I’ve been at this production thing for some now, always learning A TON as I go (for reallllll to the point that it always feels like I learn better ways to do almost anything I was doing differently 6 months ago).. and really for the most part not thinking in terms of longevity. But I think I have occasionally succeeded at it, even if by accident sometimes—case in point this remix from the Summer of 2009. I find I do my best work when I have a solid melody and harmony to work around.. which is also one of the main things I’m trying to improve on learning how to do myself in 2013.
ANYHOO I’ve been doing some mixing and mastering work lately, and know way more about this stuff now than I did in 2009.. let alone 2012! I was never really happy with my shoddy DIY master on this track, so I took some time this past weekend to fix it up. I didn’t go back into the mix—I’m a budy dude and I know this would have sucked me in!—but I did do some much more appropriate compression and limiting. Thanks, hope yall dig! -Michael / Fluff
Huge thanks to all 36 bands who donated their music to “Comp 175″ – A Benefit for Queer Programs & Services in the Pacific Northwest. I’m deeply moved by this community of generous, talented people and couldn’t be happier with how the record has turned out! It’s EPIC.
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Featuring:
Logan Lynn
Peaches
Scream Club
Matt Alber
God-Des & She
Magic Mouth
Christeene
Tom Goss
Bobby Jo Valentine
Shunda K
Nicky Click
Brett Gleason
Jeremy Gloff
Houston Bernard
Kelly Moe
Atole
Mattachine Social
The Sexbots
Deluxe
Kimono Kops
Jeb Havens
Towering Trees
Noah Daniel Wood
Barbi Crash
Kerry Hallett
Blue Redder
Katrina Skalland
L10
Microfilm
Jana Fisher
A Million Tiny Architects
Matthew Mercer
Stephan Nance
Jonny
Alternate Destination
Marshall J. Pierce
Produced by Logan Lynn.
Pre-Order 11/6/2012.
Releases 11/27/2012.
Charity Info: All profits from this release go directly to Q Center, which operates both the LGBTQ Community Center and the Sexual & Gender Minority Youth Resource Center (SMYRC) in Portland, Oregon.
For more info on Q Center, visit www.pdxQcenter.org
For more info on SMYRC, visit www.SMYRC.org
About the album title: Section 175 was a provision of the German Criminal Code from 1871 to 1994, making homosexuality a crime. Over 140,000 people were convicted under the law. The Nazis broadened the law in 1935 and thousands died in concentration camps in the prosecutions that followed.
Today, all over the world, the fight for LGBTQ freedom and equality is not yet won. Your purchase of this record helps to ensure that the important work of this vital community resource continues.
Spent some time with the cast and crew of IFC’s “Portlandia” this past week. Big thanks to Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Chloë Sevigny, Jim Gaffigan, and all of the crew for being so cool.
Here’s a picture of me and Fred at Q Center.
