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Sony Music Label Group U.S.
and Logo founder Matt Farber’s
Wilderness Media & Enter
tainment announced a merger Jan.
IO to create Music with a Twist,
the first major music label dedicat
ed to identifying, developing, com
mercializing and exploiting gay, les
bian, bisexual and transgender
artists. The company will collabo
rate with Sony’s U.S. labels,
including Columbia Records
Group, Epic Records, Sony
Nashville and Sony Urban Music.
The Twist roster will feature
queer artists who have mass
appeal and hit potential across all
musical genres. Also planned for
Dreck's maiden publication flies its freak flag.
the Twist imprint is a series of
launched a preview of the literary, rag at
branded compilations geared toward the queer
www.drçckweh.com and were planning a grand
audience as well as music fans everywhere. These
compilations will
release at genderfuck performance troupe Sissyboy’s
formal ball Jan. 18. He is seeking submissions for
feature hit songs
the second issue, due in mid-March.
by
established
artists that have
Underground Ventilation
been embraced
by sexual minori
The Portland Mercury’s Hey Homo blog is
ty audiences as
attracting witty banter with topics ranging from
well as tracks
Barbie’s satirical gender-bending activism to rages
from emerging
about political moves to lamentation about the
gay artists. The
final performance for local drag king troupe
UK PDX.
first of these
compilations will
Dedicated Mercury readers shouldn’t much
Logo network founder Matt
be released in
mind the wanton approaches to spelling and
Farber has united with Sony
June
during
grammar and unsubstantiated statements of fact
Music to create a powerful
they’ve come to rely on. ©
National
Gay
queer record label.
Pride Month. As
part of its focus on
identifying and devel
oping new artists,
Twist is in the process
of assembling a nation
wide network of talent
scouts to bring gay tal
ent with a local buzz or
a gay fan base to its
attention.
The Alternative
Is Out
The Addams family
within the rainbow
family now has its own
publication, with the
maiden publication of
Dreck, a “mega-zine”
aiming to combine The
Portland
Mercury’s
irreverence and Just
Out’s queer bent.
Publishing newhie
Tony
“le
tigre”
Lock wood and a mot
ley crew of contributors
Mercury bloggers banter about the final performance of DK PDX.