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ATHENS BOYS CHOIR: Jockstraps and Unicorns
Katz’s spoken-word is raw, unapologetic, witty, and soulful. As Out Magazine wrote in 2006, “Katz avoids falling into the common spoken-word trap…and instead uses engaging wordplay, razor-sharp wit, and hip-hop rhythms.”
Recommended if you like Saul Williams, Alix Olson.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ATHENS BOYS CHOIR: Bar Mitzvah Superhits of the 80's 90's and Today
Heart on the sleeve unapologetic lyrics and beats garuanteed to bring even your grandma's milkshake to the gay bar. Glitter meets brass knuckles in this spoken word/ hip/homo hop album by a Transsexual Jew living in the Deep South.
Recommended if you like Ani DiFranco, Alix Olson.
THE POET ESSENCE: Persuasively Seduced
Persuasively Seduced sounds like a soultress mix of Maya Angelou(conservatively speaking) and often compared to Mr.Eminem, the lyrics are as abrasive as to the universal war on acceptance and as deep as the injustices that wounds our society.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TOPHER PAYNE: Necessary Luxuries
The laugh-out-loud stories of a queer Southern man navigating dating, bar culture, and family.
CD price: $13.98 / MP3 price: $11.98
MICHAEL GREER: Don't Mess With Mona!
Michael was a cabaret legend. Singer, comedian, and gonzo impressionist, he is best known for his Mona Lisa routine. A contemporary of early Bette Midler.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE KINSEY SICKS: I Wanna Be a Republican
Refusing to be part of any party that would have them as members, the stars change their stripes and become Republicans in this CD. Tracks include "When You're Good to Dubya," "Rent a Homo" and "I've Been through Parasites (But I've Never Had VD)."
CD price: $15.00
AISHA AYERS: Letters To My Soul
A striking debut album from 2001 Portland Oregon Poetry Slam Champion; Aisha weaves her rhapsodic prose and etherial vocal melodies in order to bestow her gospel upon the brave at heart.
SPIEL WITH JACK MOSS: breathing back words
The seductive voice of the poet, Spiel, leads us on this mesmerizing journey into deep secrets many of us may share but may find too personal or too dark to reveal.
Recommended if you like Leonard Cohen.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
STACIE BOSCHMA: Happy Rainbow Poems from the Unicorn Petting Zoo
Happy Rainbow Poems from the Unicorn Petting Zoo is an adventure in weirdness, predicated on the notion that an idea hasn't been fully explored until it has been worked far past the point of logical conclusion.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ABRAHAM KRYGER, M.D., D.M.D.: Listen to Your Hormones: A Doctor's Guide to Sex, Love, & Long Life
Using extensive medical evidence for inspiration, this 14-hour must-have audio book for men (and the women who love them) cuts through the hype and confusion about the most misunderstood aspects of men's health: the vital role of hormones.
Recommended if you like Anthony Robbins, Health.CD price: $12.95 / MP3 price: $7.95
LUMINOUS: luminoUS Unleashed
Be illuminated by the light spoken thru the mouth of luminoUS. Experience wisdom with music.
CD price: $12.97
THE KINSEY SICKS: Oy Vey In A Manger
Holy Hadassah -- your holiday shopping needs are all taken care of. This all-live soundtrack recording of the Kinseys' eponymous holiday show contains 24 tracks for both Jews and Gentiles to abhor, including seasonal favorites.
CD price: $15.00
ALIX OLSON: Independence Meal: The Ingredients
Alix Olson is a fiery queer feminist spoken word artist who has toured nationally and internationally.
Recommended if you like Ani DiFranco.ITEM price: $17.00
ALIX OLSON: Independence Meal - CD and Book Combo
Alix Olson is a fiery queer feminist spoken word artist who has toured nationally and internationally.
Recommended if you like Ani DiFranco.CD price: $25.00
ORIGINAL N.Y. CAST: Moscow
Off broadway musical, based on Chekhov's popular masterpiece "The Three Sisters."
CD price: $18.99
EVALYN PARRY: Unreasonable
Revolution, humor, insight and heartbreak fuel the layered lyrics of this bold Canadian singer and spokenword artist.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
ARJUNA GREIST: odd numbers
Love, sex, loss, the joys of the open road, addiction, the internet, liberation from the status quo, people over profit, creation over destruction, feminist ecoporn, homophopia challenged with the power of the word, spoken & sung.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
STEPHEN MEAD: Safe & Other Love Poems
Spoken word love poetry set to music: lush, evocative, romantic, and sometimes steamy with a gay sensibility.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SHARON BRIDGFORTH: The Bull-jean Stories
Performance stories using traditional storytelling and nontraditional verse to chronicle the course of love returning in the lifetimes of one woman-loving-woman named bull-dog-jean.
CD price: $12.99
SABRINA MATTHEWS: Now, What Was I Saying?
Sabrina Matthews is an openly lesbian comic who relates the absurd in everyday life in a witty anecdotal style.
CD price: $17.97 / MP3 price: $17.97
CITIZEN RAHNE: Blonde On A Bum Trip
Citizen Rahne is a tough talkin' dame with a funny mean streak and an obsession with Nietzschean existentialism. She has a couple of guitars, a toy organ, and a drum machine and she gleefully uses words that are as long as her legs.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
KATASTROPHE: Let's Fuck,Then Talk About My Problems
4/4 Hip Hop elec-tricked out with queer slam poet fierceness and ferocious flows.
MP3 price: $12.97
JIM E SPARKLE PANTS: Jim e Sparkle Pants
Full of delightfully eccentric queer folk music with lyrics ranging from blatently sexual, to subtle celebrations of daily life to complex nuero-anatomy. This music is not for everyone. But, if you like a cross between Tallulah Bankhead and John Denver..
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DEEP DICKOLLECTIVE: The Famous Outlaw League Of Proto-Negroes
Nerdy Black Homiesexual hip hop.Don't be skurred.
MP3 price: $14.99
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CHOJI MOJI: Robo Inviso and the Seven $ Microphone [AEG Engineered]
Originally conceived as a promotional gag for a pet food store outlet, this low-fi compilation backed by futuristic guitar and banjo, gives freedom to the cloistered emotion of a room full of humans desperate to survive the grueling winter.
THE ADODI MUSE: A GAY NEGRO ENSEMBLE: Ain't Got Sense Enuf To Be 'Shamed
Atlanta's only black gay male performance poets collective bring you an in-your-face collection of performance poetry, songs, revealing interview interludes and more that is fierce, funny, confrontational, dangerous and entertaining.
STEPHANIE HAFFNER: Sub Urban Poet: the Lawyer Songs
Songs for people who love songs - acoustic, electric, spoken word, VERY solo, brutal wit, cut-to-the-chase vocals - all that, & fun, too.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
HILARY GOLDBERG: Giraffe Medicine
Giraffe Medicine is a collection of traveling poems set to dynamic music from some brilliant LA artists.
Recommended if you like Leonard Cohen, Allen Ginsberg.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE KINSEY SICKS: Sicks in the City
The style is "dragapella" -- award winning a cappella singing combined with sharp satire and over-the-top drag.
CD price: $15.00
THE KINSEY SICKS: Boyz 2 Girlz
Dragapella -- award winning a cappella singing, combined with sharp satire and over-the-top drag.
CD price: $15.00
DONALD CURRIE: Sex and Mayhem Part One
A wildly inventive movie made of sound about a gay kid growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s and early 60s. Winner of the Stonewall Society Literary Performer Award for 2002 and hailed by East Bay Express as one of the ten best CDs of 2002.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
ATHENA REICH: a sly sardonic grin
Powerful, Raw and Disturbingly Honest spoken word. A feminist and heart-felt explosion of fascinating expression and gut-wrenching intensity. Gutsy and rare.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ALAN READE: 4 Seasons in a Day
Performance artist Alan Reade, who is gaining a following in the U.S. and Canada, presents his unique vision of the world through an eclectic mix of sounds, from trance-y electronica, to horny sex chat, to campfire songs.
CD price: $10.00
