Category Archives: Music

PHOEBE LEGERE

Phoebe Legere makes her PUSSY FAGGOT! debut on Friday, February 8  at Public Assembly in Williamsburg.  RSVP for reduced guest list here.

“Legere plays the piano with enormous authority in a style that encompasses Chopin, blues, ragtime, bebop and beyond, and she brings to her vocal delivery a four octave range, and an extraordinary palette of tonal color and meticulous phrasing.”
- New York Times

PHOEBE LEGERE was still a teenager when she became the resident composer for the Wooster Group, which included Spaulding Grey and Willem Defoe. Her storied history includes a record deal Epic Records, a Carnegie Hall debut as a composer and studying with John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet. She graduated from Vassar College, studied composition at the Juilliard School, studied piano at the New England Conservatory, and film scoring, orchestration and jazz arranging at the NYU Graduate School of Music Composition.  In 1991 Legere opened for David Bowie on his National Tour. She led highly influential downtown bands, from Monad, to Ultra Monad To Blond Fox, Swingalicious. After the success of “Marilyn Monroe” (Island Records), Legere played numerous concerts and jazz festivals. Her Blue Curtain (Einstein Records) was nominated as a Top 10 CD of the decade; and she was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her work with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony.   She has 10 CD’s available for download on ITUNES. Her newest CD, a jazzaret mix of French Musette and original compositions, will be released internationally on ESPDisk in the Fall.

For more information visit phoebelegere.com.


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CLINT MICHIGAN

CLINT MICHIGAN released its debut album, Hawthorne to Hennepin, in 2009. That album—heralded as “delicate and devastating” (Paste), “plaintive and at times haunting” (Time Out New York), and “magical stuff” (Detour)—announced the band to be a powerful presence in the world of alt-folk music, both for frontman and song writer Clint Asay’s affecting lyrics and the rhapsodic, reflective harmonies woven throughout its tracks. The title track made its way onto the show Grey’s Anatomy, while critics and live audiences alike extolled the band’s exquisite brand of melancholy.

The band’s second album, Coeur d’Alene, offers a contemplative meditation on love, struggle, and life’s baffling beauty.  Few songwriters possess the poetic dial-up of Asay. With Coeur d’Alene, he communicates a new maturity and generosity of spirit. The album takes its name from the Coeur d’Alene mountain pass, a place that Asay considers transcendent. He first encountered the Coeur d’Alene pass when driving from Billings, Montana to Portland, Oregon—writing bad checks all along the way. The last check anyone accepted on that journey was in Missola, Montana, and as he journeyed from there to Spokane, he came upon Coeur d’Alene. “I was so full of excitement,” Asay recalls. “It was spectacular and the sun was setting… It was my great escape.”

Recorded over the course of a week at by sound engineer Jim Bentley at The Fort Brooklyn in Brooklyn, NY, Coeur d’Alene features appearances by NYC artists Amy Bezunartea (a former member of Clint Michigan), pianist Jamie Cowperthwait, singer/accordian player Jim Andralis, drummer Sam Lazzara, singer/ukelele player Larry Krone, flutist Tracy Pratt, violinist Pinky Weitzman, and Mason Brown on banjo. Coeur D’Alene is the first offering from Asay Girl Records, Asay’s own label. (“Asay Girl” was Clint’s nickname as a kid in Wyoming… the only boy on his school’s gymnastics team.)

For more information visit clintmichigan.com.


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RICA SHAY


Rica Shay performs at PUSSY FAGGOT! on Friday, February 8, 2013 at Public Assembly in Williamsburg.  RSVP for reduced guest list.

Up and coming performing artist RICA SHAY serves up a bubalicious rap show that is always high-energy, free-flowing, funny and unmistakably queer. His sassy style is all hip-hop, but flavored with a touch of drag and burlesque. His beats and rhymes never fail to entertain, as they tell the story of a scrappy survivor bringing himself and his friends up in life.

A self-described free spirit and nomadic night owl, Rica Shay has performed all over the U.S. including New Orleans, Altanta, Nashville, L.A., San Francisco and New York. He is currently rocketing to the top of the scene with his hit ‘Summertime Realness,’ released last year with collaborator Big Dipper. Keep your eyes out for his debut EP to be released later this year.

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ENID ELLEN


Enid Ellen performs at PUSSY FAGGOT! on Friday, February 8, 2013 at Public Assembly in Williamsburg.  RSVP for reduced guest list here.

“There are pockets of wonderful performers, like David Mramor [Enid Ellen].
There are bright lights everywhere, but it is harder.”
-John Cameron Mitchell, in NEXT (on the disappearance of Shortbus-era New York)

Hatched from a beached whale, ENID ELLEN channels Mother Nature.  A shape shifting, gender bending poet in hooker boots, Enid speaks of love, anger, divine feminine power and Nature.  With Greg Potter on piano they create melodic songs to speak the Word.

Find out more on Enid Ellen’s Facebook page.


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MAX STEELE AND THE PARTY ICE


Max Steele and the Party Ice has performed at PUSSY FAGGOT! numerous times and next performs on February 8, 2013 at Public Assembly.

MAX STEELE AND THE PARTY ICE is an electronic dance music project of Max Steele, a writer, musician and performance artist based in Brooklyn.


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BILLY HOUGH & SUSAN GOLDBERG

Billy Billy Hough & Susan Goldberg appear at PUSSY FAGGOT! on Thursday, June 7, 2012 as part of the opening night party for Queer New York International (QNYI).

BILLY HOUGH & SUSAN GOLDBERG teamed up in Provincetown in the summer of 2006 to do a series of shows at the Grotta Bar at Enzo’s. In the ensuing 6 years, they’ve played 200 gigs in Provincetown,and more recently 15 gigs in New York, been the subject of two documentaries, written a musical, and released a live album that became an international hit. Despite the odds, they are still banging at the empty piñata of fame.

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SANTIAGO VENEGAS

Santiago Venegas (aka Santi) performs as part of the 3-year anniversary PUSSY FAGGOT! on Good Friday, April 6 at Public Assembly in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

SANTIAGO VENEGAS is a singer, songwriter and performer from Bogota, Colombia He has performed previously in Erin Markey’s Puppy Love: A Stripper’s Tail (P.S 122, 2010), Justin Vivian Bond’s Re:Galli Blonde (A Sissy Fix) (The Kitchen, 2010) and most recently in Viva Ruiz’s Immigrantula (Moma PS1 2011). Santiago studied Fashion Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. He enjoys knitting, crocheting, stressing about environmental deterioration, and immigrant’s rights

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MAX STEELE


Max Steele co-hosts and co-curates (with Glenn Marla) FAG CITY + HEAVY at the 3-year anniversary PUSSY FAGGOT! on Friday, April 6, 2012 at Public Assembly.

MAX STEELE is a performer artist and writer. He has presented original performance work at the New Museum, Deitch Projects, Participant Inc., Dixon Place, Envoy Enterprises, PPOW Gallery, PS122, the Queens Museum of Art, and musical venues across the country. In addition to writing the psychedelic porno poetry zine Scorcher, his writing has been featured in  Dossier Journal, Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art, East Village Boys, Birdsong, DIS Magazine, International Girl Gang Underground, and Petit Morts: Recollections of a Queer Public. He has performed as an actor in the NY premiere of Tennessee Williams’ Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws at La MaMa, and played Becky on the LOGO sitcom Jeffery & Cole Casserole. He has been called “Go-go boy of the damned”.

For more on Max visit his blog at fagcity.blogspot.com.

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GERRY & THE TWINKS


Gerry & The Twinks performs as part of the 3-year Anniversary PUSSY FAGGOT! on Friday, April 6 at Public Assembly.

GERRY & THE TWINKS – Illegally blonde and at large on the Upper East Side of New York City, Gerry Visco’s a performer, writer, photographer, and nightlife personality who Gayletter dubbed “the Queen of Trouble.”

She’s performed at Dixon Place, The Wild Project, the Creative Time annual gala, the Bowery Poetry Club, Chantal’s House of Shame in Berlin, and Envoy Gallery. Her performance career began in 1980 with her role in Woody Allen’s film, “Stardust Memories,” and she’s appeared in numerous films and videos, including a recent vignette in Abel Ferrara’s 2012 “4.44 Last Day On Earth.” Visco currently writes for Out Magazine and Hyperallergic. From 2006-2011, she had a weekly column in New York Press, covering parties, events, and the arts. She was cited by the Village Voice for the Best of Award as Bravest Nightlife Photographer in 2010. Her photography has appeared in New York Press, New York Magazine, The Village Voice, Try State Magazine, The Daily News, Gawker, Gothamist, and numerous online publications, and was exhibited in a solo show at the Munch Gallery in New York City. She holds a BA in Literature, an MFA in Writing, and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.

Visco is currently writing a tell-all memoir about her colorful life as muse, actor, fag hag, rent girl, and disco diva in the gritty glamorous world of New York City during the 1970s and 1980s.

Her Gerrification project, a global effort designed to eradicate ugliness, is based upon the premise that dressing like Gerry will improve your mood and your life. This project inspired Gerry & The Twinks. Twinks, for the uninitiated are traditionally young, thin, hairless gay men but Gerry Visco is expanding the definition of “twink” to include anyone who is fun, cute, and full of pep. That means Gerry Visco is a twink, too! Many people in this world resign themselves to dull, colorless lives at drone jobs, desperately trying to pay their bills and bemoaning how “tired” they are when in reality they are depressed. Well, Gerry & The Twinks are here to change all that! Join the Gerry Party and enjoy yourself!

Watch Gerry & The Twinks video for The Gerry Party:


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BOURGEOIS AND MAURICE


Bourgeois and Maurice perform at the 3-year anniversary PUSSY FAGGOT! on April 6, 2012 at Public Assembly in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

“21st Century cabaret stars like no other.
Talented to within an inch of their lives, you’ll fall in love”
- Time Out London

BOURGEOIS AND MAURICE – Part-cabaret, part-theatre, part-catwalk freakshow – are a musical cabaret duo with style as sharp as their wit.  Their original songs blend unashamedly catchy pop hooks with bitingly satirical lyrics, taking on a vast range of important human issues, from reptilian conspiracy theories to the eroticization of the finance sector.  As one of London’s leading cabaret acts they have performed in some of the UK’s most prestigious venues including the Royal Opera House, Southbank Centre, Wales Millennium Centre and the Royal Academy of Arts. They have enjoyed sell-out shows at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and also toured the music festival circuit with appearances at Glastonbury, Latitude, Bestival, Electric Picnic and Lovebox, among others.

Always wearing custom-made clothing from some of London’s most exciting new designers, the duo have also contributed a double spread of sartorial wisdom to Time Out London’s 2009 Fashion Week special, edited by Gareth Pugh, and won London’s Alternative Eurovision in 2010 with their fashion-forward electro pop nightmare ‘Out Outfit You’.

For more on Bourgeois and Maurice visit them online at
www.bourgeoisandmaurice.co.uk

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