This week's queer country playlist honors Transgender Day of Visibility by highlighting songs from trans artists we've reviewed this year, as well as a gorgeous new one from Light Bird.

Light Bird
Anjimile
Adeem the Artist
Wren Carpenter
Sweet Petunia

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REVIEW: Quietly revolutionary and subtle, Anjimile's latest album You're Free To Go works its way under your skin and into your awareness, writes Richard Marcus.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Sumatra is Paula Boggs Band's rousing, poignant, and hopeful contribution to the resistance, writes Richard Marcus.

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ALBUM REVIEW: With Midnight Feature, Grace Givertz punctures the heart and gives us a "remarkable stretch of storytelling. It doesn't get much better than this," Bee Delores writes.

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This week's queer country playlist features club kids, touching tributes, joyful gender exploration, the wrong end of a love triangle, and butch dykes playing the Opry.

Paisley Fields
Andrew Sa + HC MCEntire
Jessye DeSilva
The Devil Said Jump
Ellen Angelico

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ALBUM REVIEW: Bee Delores marvels at Mud Blood Bone, the new album from Cat Clyde. On "what just might be the best album of 2026," Clyde bends time and bursts through the other side.

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This week's review roundup highlights Mal Blum getting into character, damsel.'s warm melancholy, and Emma Jean Oakley's defiant heartbreak.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Boston-based duo Sweet Petunia don't just make traditional music – they want it to last into the future as an evolving art form. Their new album Foggy Mountain Mental Breakdown show us what they're all about.

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INTERVIEW: With her band's fifth album, Sumatra, coming out next week, Paula Boggs spoke with us about strength in diversity, her optimistic view of the long arc of justice, and the value of sharing art with each other.

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