#festival grls

[jukeboxcwb]

De Tinashe a Ludmilla, confira o line-up do Grls!

Festival Grls! acontece no Centro Esportivo Tietê nos dias 4 e 5 de março de 2023

Foto: divulgação

Os primeiros nomes do line-up do Festival Grls! já está entre nós. A norte-americana Tinashe é o destaque da noite, e se reúne com grandes nomes brasileiros como Ludmilla, Sandy e Alcione.

Além delas, Blu DeTiger, Gayle, JoJo, Manu Gavassi, Mariah Angeliq, Rachel Reis, Margareth Menezes e Duda Beat também são alguns dos nomes confirmados para o Grls!. A organização promete mais anúncios em breve.

A pré-venda começou nesta sexta-feira (25), e segue até 30 de novembro para clientes do banco Next. Além disso, terão passaporte, válido para os dois dias, com 15% de desconto. Quando a venda geral for liberada, o desconto passa a ser de 10%, com parcelamento em até 3x sem juros para os portadores de cartão de crédito Next.

As vendas gerais abrem no dia 30 de novembro, às 12h, pelo Tickets For Fun.

[psykopaths]

The Last Mistress, (2006)

[kinkipoke]

lately Barcelona. Ferrari smash!

[canseideserpop]

Festival GRLS! encerra a segunda edição com grandes shows comandados apenas por mulheres!

O Festival GRLS! chegou ao fim de sua segunda edição com shows incríveis comandados apenas por mulheres! O evento, que aconteceu nos dias 4 e 5 de março de 2023, foi um verdadeiro sucesso e contou com mais de 20 horas de música e atividades que abordaram o empreendedorismo feminino, realizado no Centro Esportivo Tietê, em São Paulo. O festival que trouxe grandes nomes da música nacional e…

[slavesofpop]

🚨 Festival De Música Pop "GRLS!" Anunciam Data De Nova Edição. Dias 4 e 5 De Março De 2023 Em São Paulo. Quais Cantoras Vocês Queriam Assistir O Show? #slavesofpop #grls #festival https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck1HnE6OeYj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[fanaticsnail]

Bachata (Dance Series)

Masterlist here.

Word Count: 3,105

Warnings: Fluff. Pure fluff, dancing, sensual dance descriptors, mention of alcohol (if you squint).

It was beta-read by the ever wonderful @sordidmusings (thank you bby grl, you are a blessing)

Song Suggestion: Stand By Me, Wake Me Up, la Isla Bonita

Your lips remained parted, eyes glossy and hyper-fixated on the movement of swaying hips, bent knees, and the biceps and forearms of your captain who effortlessly led one of the locals in a sultry dance. All his movements were in time to the beat of the drum, the fingerpicking of nylon guitar strings and the push and pull of airy piano accordion accompanying the lilt of vocals.

The atmosphere surrounding the beach-front festival on the coastal shore was loud, the crash of waves in the distance resonated within the chasms of the wooden dock where the Going Merry was harbored. Several vendors had set up temporary huts with canvas roofs atop wooden poles, selling their wares, local cuisine and fountains of exotic drinks of flavors you had never heard of before.

Although the musicians sang out their romantic souls into the air, prompting many a traveler to engage with them in dance and singing along to the tune: your eyes remained fixed on the way Luffy effortlessly spun the local girl within his arms, steadying her hips with his hands. His nose was scrunched with laughter, his grin drawn wide against his cheeks to bare his teeth in unbridled joy.

“Quartermaster?” the green-haired swordsman addressed you, “your thoughts?”

“Hmm?” you hummed in question, snapped from your entranced gaze held against your captain’s swaying body.

“You’ve been staring at him long enough,” Nami giggled at you, leaning back to recline against the wooden log behind her, “surely you have a bit of a hypothesis.”

You furrowed your brow, looking between the remaining companions you’d found yourself serving with on the Going Merry. Nami had a playful shimmer falling in her eyes, Zoro quenched his thirst by draining the remainder of his brown-stained beer bottle, while Sanji was making his way back from collecting the evening meal for the crew by bartering with the vendors.

Usopp and Luffy opted to join in the festival celebrations by swaying with the locals to the beat of the drum. Both men began surprising the crew with how effortlessly they danced to the tunes produced by the band, but Luffy was exceptionally surprising everyone by the way he almost had an air of sultry seduction in his movements. As soon as you witnessed the first effortless and tasteful gyration of his hips, your breath caught in your throat and a warm flush weaseled its way from your chest to tint your cheeks with its presence.

“On the dancing?” you asked again, Zoro chuckling at your thoughts.

“Alright, let’s backtrack then,” the swordsman rolled his eyes with a chuckled scoff, “look at him.”

“Oh she’s been looking at him enough, Zoro,” Nami scrunched up her nose, her tone light and teasing. You scrunched up your own nose in light mockery at her jest, prompting her to release a laugh into the night air.

“Looking at who?” the blonde chef asked as he placed the food down on the stretched canvas mat on the sandy floor in front of you all.

“Alright Sanji, non-biased opinion,” Nami said, leaning forward to sit herself closer to the food in front of her, “our captain. Where do you think he learnt how to dance like that? Look – no, really Sanji – look.”

The chef rolled his eyes and lulled his head over to look at the captain of the Going Merry. Luffy spun his dance partner to face her torso away from him, her back pressed flush against his bare chest as he ghosted his fingertips over her vertical forearms held upwards. His lips traced the back of her neck, his eyes fluttered closed as he swayed his hips against the beat, with his brows furrowed in passionate concentration.

“O-oh,” Sanji stuttered, his eyes widening with a downturned smile rising within his fluster.

“I know, right?” Nami loudly whispered in her hushed enthusiasm.

“I can honestly say: I have no idea,” the blonde nodded his head in confirming his words more-so to himself than to the group, “he doesn’t give off that kind of energy at all.”

The music concluded, the captain breaking away from his dance partner, and giving her a clap on the shoulder as a gesture of encouragement and joy at the time they spent together.

“Oi, Luffy, Usopp!” Zoro called to the two crewmen, “grub’s up, come and get it!”

Your captain’s face snapped over towards the crew; his eyes first meeting with yours. A large grin drew itself against his cheeks once more as he found Usopp and they stampeded together towards the canvas mat.

“You guys, the sand- the sand,” Nami aggressively shooed the two rapidly approaching men, their feet kicking up the coarse grains of sand dangerously close to the food placed on the floor. You giggled at them, looking to your captain and patting the unoccupied space beside you in a gesture for him to sit down.

Usopp claimed the vacant space next to Nami, taking a portion of the local cuisine for himself as he did so. Luffy, smiling at your gesture, immediately plopped himself down ungracefully. He playfully nudged your shoulder with the top of his head, giving you a small smile, his curls feeling soft against your exposed skin as his hat remained fastened to his back via the drawstring. You laughed, reaching your palm and fingertips to brush some of the strands away from his forehead to reveal his hazelnut-coloured eyes to you. You shook your head, scrunching your nose and playfully nudged him away from you.

Your role aboard the Going Merry was the Quartermaster: an aid in the navigation and smooth sailing amongst the waves, while being the secondary loyal soldier behind the first-mate. Luffy, upon finding you in a tavern off the shore of Shells-Town, immediately was taken with your skills and ease in breaking up a tavern brawl. Two rival pirate crews had stumbled into the family-run tavern and began immediately meddling in the affairs of one another’s business. The boiling point flashing like water to scorching oil within the halls of your favorite tavern: foreheads touching, guns withdrawn, fists flying and the breaking of brown, glass bottles. You threw yourself into the crowd, opting to disarm and do no harm, dancing effortlessly within the heat of the battle and incapacitating those who opted to remain fighting. It took little to no time to stop the fight, your skills drilled into you at the hands of many a brawling instructor and mentor throughout your childhood.

After the fight had finished, a brown-haired captain adorning a straw hat with a red ribbon approached you, telling you straight out, “Pack your bags, I need you on my ship,” to which you shrugged with a simple “aye, Sir”.

In your travels with the young captain, you were immediately taken with his innocence and fearlessness to be anything other than what he is: a simple man with the charm and charisma he needs to lead a crew, but also with the mischievousness and playfulness that comes with his inexperience. His heart is intensely displayed on his wrists, his desire to serve and protect those in need was admirable. You would follow him to the ends of the earth, with nothing to add than a simple: “aye, Sir.”

Friendship, proximity, and sleepless nights by each other’s side had a small whisper of emotion beginning to form within the very central point of your heart. The longer you remained with him, the more this feeling began to burn within you. You put it all down to the need to serve your captain well or perhaps a small crush if anything else. Choosing not to engage with such childish emotions, you smothered the feelings as soon as they began.

But there was something about the way his hips were swaying tonight. Something about the way his eyes sparkled, his nose scrunched and his lips drew out to reveal his playful grin under the glittering stars around the festivities that held you hostage to your unquenchable emotions.

“Nice meat!” Luffy’s voice cut through your inner monologue, prompting you to shake your head and blink slowly away your enchantment, “you had any yet-? -You haven’t had any yet! Here, have some!”

Your captain thrust an empty paper plate into your hands before piling a mountain of food atop the plate; it bending beneath the weight of the variety of items.

“Captain, slow down!” you giggled, shooing his hand holding tongs with the dangle of cooked meat waving from the end, “I’m not going to be able to get through all this, but thank you for thinking of me.”

“Anything for my Quartermaster,” he shot you a small wink, “gotta make sure you’re taken care of, you know?”

Your eyes fluttered rapidly in a flustered blink. You shook your head once more and furrowed your brows at his comments. He looked down at your plate, gesturing with his hands for you to begin eating.

“Whatever you don’t eat, I will,” he shrugged, leaning back in his place beside you and looking up at you with eyes full of adoration and appreciation.

“Thanks Luffy, I trust that you will,” you giggled, placing the plate down on the ground and tucking your hair behind your ears and away from your mouth. He smiled up with his broadening grin as the rest of the crew continued to eat the delicacies this area graced you with.

You felt his gaze continue to hold to you as you continued to dine with the other straw-hats, then pouring drinks from the large jug for one another and laughing to a tale Usopp was recollecting. He sat up briefly, noticing some strands of your hair began to fall back in front of your face and immediately reached up to tuck the locks behind your ear with his thumb and index finger. A warmth drew itself upwards to your cheeks at this unrestrained gesture, but you did not shy away from his affection.  

Sitting in silence, Zoro continued to hold his intense gaze in unwavering focus against your interaction and dynamic with the captain. His left brow arched at the subtle touches, lingering on your flushed face before looking to the mischievous expression your captain currently was adorning.

“Hey Cap’n,” Zoro smirked up, collecting a beer bottle from beside him, “why don’t you and the Quartermaster have a little dance after dinner? She hasn’t had one all night.”

Your eyes widened at Zoro, a scowl falling to your lips in wordless reprimand. Zoro’s smirk broadened with his left brow arching upwards to taunt you further. Before you managed to get a word out to chastise him further, Luffy spoke up to interrupt your thoughts.

“Sounds good to me!” he exclaimed with joy, “how about it, Quartermaster? Dance with your captain?”

Words fell halted in your throat, the breath you were going to use to speak them caught behind your parted lips. You snapped your gaze back to your captain, snickers from your crew began to whisper in hisses behind their clenched teeth.

“I-I don’t think I could-,” you began, watching your captain as he eagerly rose to his feet and extended his hand out towards you.

“-You’ll be fine,” he smiled, collecting your hand from beside you, “let’s go, music’s starting again.”

“Aye, Sir,” you nodded, allowing him to pull you to rise to your own feet.

You turned your head back to your crew as Luffy began leading you towards the open fire, closer to the vicinity of the music. Zoro’s smirk-like grin was plastered openly on his lips, shooting a small wink towards you at your unsettlement. Nami gave you a small wave, wordlessly uttering to you: “learn why he dances like that.”

You inhaled sharply through your nose with eyes scolding your crew before being twirled within the arms of your captain to meet his hazelnut orbs.

“Just relax, okay?” he scrunched his nose up while pressing his forehead against yours, eyes twinkling with mischief, “I know what I’m doing, let me lead you.”

A small squeak found its way to your throat, eyes wide and cheeks flushed. He chuckled, taking both of your hands within his and began to effortlessly sway with you.

Crossing your arms upwards, he spun you to face away from him; rocking you within his arms briefly before experimentally intertwining his limbs with your own. He twirled you once again to face him, collecting your right hand within his left and placing his right hand wrapped completely around your shoulders beneath your left arm. He held you close in a tight and flush embrace, exaggerating his hips outwards and leading your feet to the beat and rhythm of the music.

Your eyes were wide and frantically looking everywhere else, breath hitching as he led you in the movements with such poise and ease. Meeting your eyes with the taunting and teasing gaze of the green-haired swordsman, you began to fall out of time to Luffy’s movements and stumble a little. You watched the swordsman’s chest tremble as a laugh fell from his lips at your stumble.

“Hey, hey, hey,” Luffy’s voice called to you, drawing your face up with his left hand weaving itself away from your right, “what’s the matter, are you okay?”

Your breath caught in your throat as he reached his hand up to touch your cheek tenderly. He continued swaying the both of you to the music while his eyes searched yours for the source of your unease.

“I-I just,” you began, your own eyes fluttering its concentration between his, “I’m a bit self-conscious dancing like this. It’s a bit-, uh-…”

He nodded with his brows furrowed, leading you with his verbal tone; “-a bit…?”

You clenched your teeth with a small grimace, “-a bit out of the ordinary? A bit unusual to be dancing like this?”

“Oh!” he nodded, returning his broad smile to his lips. He released your cheek from his left hand and again sought out your right to claim, “you don’t have to be self-conscious. As I said, I know what I’m doing. And if the attention bothers you so much, keep your eyes on me!”

The flush returned to your cheeks, the warmth threatening to tint its way to cover the entirety of your face as he confidently wove your right knee between his legs and swung his hips to the beat. You released a shaken breath from your lips, closing your eyes to bring your focus away from the Straw-Hat crew and their teasing gaze. Reopening your eyes, you met with the warm smile of your captain.

“There you go!” he complimented you while tracing small and indistinct lines on your spine, “‘atta girl!”

Internally, you were screaming. Your captain’s praise was nothing foreign to you, especially when in the heat of combat. Within the proximity he currently held with you, dancing you provocatively within the romantic atmosphere, this praise felt especially outlandish. Shaking your head to rid your mind of the fog his verbal praise rose within you, you kept your eyes fixed on him. His eyes softened as he began to hum along to the melody, twirling you away from him. Although his twirls moved your body far from his, he would always bring you back to hold you securely within his arms with his hips almost flush against your own.

As the dance continued on, you began to get more confident in your movements and trust for him to always support and lead you through it. He would sweep you into long-arched dips, circling around his body before having you snap back up to fall within his grip. All laughs and smiles drew upwards against your cheeks, a laugh or two flinging from your chests in glee to the music.

“How do you know how to dance like this?” you breathily asked him while he again twirled you to face away from him.

He released your hands from his grasp as he slowly ghosted them over your ribs, dragging them to rest on your hips. With closed eyes, he brought his lips up to your exposed neck and whispered against your skin: “Shanks taught me.”

Your glazed eyes opened widely, a small “oh” parting from you in surprise. You had heard many tales about Red-Haired Shanks and his crew of seasoned pirates from your captain. It should come as no surprise to you that he had shared more knowledge than the influence of a life of piracy onto your captain, but apparently the charm that comes with sensual dancing.

“When you were a child?” you asked him, lulling your head over as he continued to hold his lips a hair’s length away from your skin. He hummed in confirmation, the vibration prompting your pores to spring upwards over your neck and forearms.

“And the knowledge wasn’t lost to you over the years?” you quizzed him. His hands shifted you within his arms, turning you to face him again.

“I practiced with my brothers,” he chuckled, placing his forehead against your own, “my biggest brother would play guitar sometimes. I’d make my other one dance with me to the music.”

Before you could ask Luffy any further questions on the matter, the music concluded and your captain released you from his arms and cheered loudly to praise the musicians for their song. You trailed your gaze from the raven curls atop your captain’s head down over his sun-kissed skin to hold your lashes half-lidded as they sought out his eyes once more. He was so handsome, you knew that much was certain. All the time you spent together aboard the Merry had you drawing yourself closer to him, but now; you were completely smitten.

His joyful and lilted praise drew itself to a close, him turning to meet your eyes once more with his warm eyes. He reached his left hand down to collect yours within his comforting grip.

“Did you want another dance?” he asked hopefully, before he tore away his gaze to seek out a vendor’s stand behind him, “or we could get a drink? I could go for another one of those juice-things, I think.”

You giggled, reaching up your left hand to caress his smooth cheek. His skin ignited beneath your touch, glowing alongside the smoldering embers of the beach-front fire.

“As long as I'm with you, I’ll follow you anywhere,” you answered whimsically, prompting him to reach his forehead down to touch against your own. His nose scrunched up once more, his lips drawing out to a large smile as he answered you.

“Okay, great! Juice first,” he confirmed, nodding against your head, “then more dancing.”

“Aye, Sir.”

[olderthannetfic]

I’m probably more forgiving than I should be, but I would say most people understand there are perfectly reasonable and compassionate people who have their personal reasons for continuing to enjoy mainstream or other media with massive issues. We all have our own opinions and baggage and that doesn’t make us enemies. But “its just too hard to find indie stuff!” isn’t that. If someone has enough internet access to send a defensive anon ask they can use Google or just ask for recs.

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It's more than that.

Fandom is a subculture, or a set of subcultures, even with how mainstream fic is now. Supernatural was on for years, so yes, it clearly had a lot of people viewing compared to some novel. However, SPN had garbage viewership compared to lots of hit shows, and most randos at one's job likely did not watch it. It was an inescapable pillar of fandom culture for a while.

Film Bros have such distinct taste someone made that hilarious fanvid to Pretty Fly for a White Guy that used all of those movies they love. Sure, everyone's heard of most of them, but have we seen them?

Film noir nerds have festivals where they go watch increasingly obscure films noir, and there are "classics" all of them have seen that other people haven't.

I know no one who cares about The Secret History... aside from literally every dark academia social media account ever.

Everyone is the protagonist of their own story if they'd just act like it.

People come to my tumblr as a sort of central location, so when I'm melting down about Beyond Evil or even some indie novel, a certain number of people will go consume it too. I'm always picking up tastes from costubers or whatever internet micro-celebrity I like this month.

If you are excited about the stuff you like, other people will consume it so they can talk to you about it. You do not have to passively jump on every bandwagon. Even the supposed normies don't all watch the same shows. (And the idea of normies is a mirage anyway.)

There are whole facebook groups and social circles around indie original m/m novels these days. There are tastemaker super fans who seem to mostly engage in that sphere, and people who hang out in those spaces have all read the big names... big names absolutely nobody outside of the m/m world has heard of.

Go look up the website for GRL, the industry conference, and see how many of the attending authors you've heard of. Probably five of sixty or something unless you follow m/m very closely.

Last time I bothered with After Ellen, they were breathlessly following that Spanish historical soap's f/f subplot. Who else outside of Spain even heard of that show?

I get not wanting to be 100% alone forever, but there is no such thing as universally popular media. We make little pods of taste, some of which amount to full on subcultures.

Those taste groups form when we take a stand for our particular Thing, whatever it is. It requires a tiny bit of proactiveness, but honestly, not that much. People who are already un-normie enough to spend their time on AO3 and Tumblr instead of Instagram or whatever are already making choices about what kinds of tastes to prioritize and what circles to join.

We could make a minimal effort for our favorite types of content and build indie versions into small but viable industries.

Or we could be lazy, spineless cowards.

[andyislistening]

music news!!

Marilina Bertoldi anuncia tour por Argentina y varias ciudades de Latam con un dúo set.

post original y más info

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: una foto de Marilina Bertoldi y Edu Giardina posando desenfadades contra un cielo despejado, Maru haciendo fuck you sonriendo y Edu haciendo una pistola con las manos. Titulo en letras rojas MARILINA BERTOLDI DUO SET. debajo la lista de fechas: Septiembre (FULL BAND) 2 Tucuman Festival Urban Indie - 8 Haedo Auditorio Oeste - 9 Temperley Auditorio Sur - 14 Rosario Salon de las Artes - 15 Cordoba Festival GRL Power - 16 Capital Federal Festival Equal - 30 Asuncion, PY Festival Reciclarte - OCTUBRE 6 C. Rivadavia El Sótano - 7 Trelew Teatro Verdi - 19 Neuquén Mood - 20 San Isidro CCSI - 26 Tandil Glow - 27 Mar del Plata Vorterix - 28 La Plata xxxxxxxxx - NOVIEMBRE 4 Asuncion xxxxxxxxx - 11 Montevideo xxxxxxxx - 13 Bogota xxxxxxxxxx - 16 Santa Fe Tribus Bar - 24 San Luis Comuna - 25 Mendoza xxxxxxxx. End ID]

[ariel-seagull-wings]

Day Six: Favorite female-driven show, Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc and Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist.

@superkingofpriderock @princesssarisa @faintingheroine @themousefromfantasyland @angelixgutz @amalthea9 @the-blue-fairie @parxsisburning @gravedangerahead @grimoireoffolkloreandfairytales @softlytowardthesun @anne-white-star @lioness--hart @lord-antihero @metropolitan-mutant-of-ark @silverfoxstole @gone-grl-gone

Day Six: Favorite female-driven show?

Madeline. Hands down.

What drived this show were the everyday adventures of a little girl, her eleven friends of the boarding school (orphanage in the cartoon), her teacher Miss Clavel and her pet female dog Genevieve, with the closest to fixed male characters being Lord Cocouface, the financial patron of the school, and Pepito, the spit fire son of the Spanish Embassador who lived in the house at front of them.

Madeline could do a lot of things, from stage a play to organize a film festival, and while still afrayed, she still would do the most heroic things to help people in need. Sometimes she and her friends showed flaws like vengefulness and prejudice, but with the help of Miss Clavel they always learned to overcome it.

Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc?

I love the narrative arc that Princess Lily goes trough in the 1985 movie Legend. In the beggining movie, while already likable, being a member of royalty, Lily could be impulsive and unwise about the outside world.

Because of this impulsiveness, she touches a unicorn, wich atracts the attention of the beings of darkness, and almost causes the death of hrr boyfriend Jack when she trows a ring in the sea, making him jump to search for it.

But she perceives her mistakes, and faces the harshest winds of winter and the fires of hell, assuming the responsability to fix what she's done wrong and gaining more wisdom to save the day.

Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist?

Karaba the sorceress from Kirikou and the Sorceress.

I was intrigued for the fact that, unlike other villains who show fun in the misery they cause, Karaba never celebrated victory or laughed when she did evil against the villagers. Even tough she got all their gold, she always acted grumpy, bitter and unhappy.

This is the first memory i have of seeing a movie making a character study about the emptiness felt by a character who does evil things, and what may be the cause for their actions. Its a very engaging discovery that i won't spoil, because i want you to check the movie out.

[rachculture]

culture. - meu 12° álbum

olá, aqui é a rachel e eu espero que tenham gostado da minha performance de hoje no festival GRLS!, é tão importante ter um festival de acolhimento às mulheres (e gays), precisamos manter nossa voz e presença, sei que também viram o trailer oficial do meu 12° álbum... ele já está disponível no meu canal do YouTube, bem aqui...

ah! esse é meu tumblr que será usado pra divulgar o culture., eu nunca usei isso! mas tô aprendendo, parece ser legal... estou prolongando muito, mas usarei pra relatar e explicar coisas sobre a era, será muito importante pra mim se todos vocês acompanharem meus posts... como uma recompensa por ter lido tudo, aqui está a capa do meu lead single, postarei mais tarde no twitter!

[truenorthcountrycomics]

Shannon Spence chats with True North Country Comics Podcast about her #comicbook 'P*NK LAB GRL!' in advance of Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2024. Listen to the conversation here: https://truenorthcountrycomics.com/2024/05/03/shannon-spence-talks-about-her-comic-book-pnk-lab-grl-for-tcaf-2024/

[thecrownbaltimore]

5/4: MDff PRIDE After Party! w/ GRL PWR, Pussy Noir & Friends

Dance the night away post-cinema with GRL PWR, Pussy Noir & a night of dance and drag!

This Year, Maryland Film Fest is showcasing LGBTQ+ Pride on the silver screen with tentpole screening events on Saturday May 4th throughout the Festival Footprint! This heroic celebration culminates in a takeover of the Crown Baltimore Pink Room for a power house of a party featuring The GRL PWR DJs and Performances by Pussy Noir & special guests TBA.

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Remember: Bring $ CASH TIPS $ For Performers!

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This event is 21+, $10 for entry, or FREE with Admission to the Q+ Shorts or Trans Shorts Under the Stars Maryland Film Fest Screenings that take place earlier in the evening (at @marylandinstitutecollegeofart Lazarus Auditorium and @currentspace respectively)

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@grlpwrbaltimore ~ @gracedrones ~ @mdffparkway

#queercinema #marylandfilmfest #baltimorenightlife #queerart #womeninmusic #baltimore

[loremmagazines]

Issue 2 - chokecherry

Coming straight from the heart of the San Francisco Music scene, Chokecherry’s blend of shoegaze and grunge cut’s you like a knife and leaves you begging more. With Izzie on Guitar and Scarlett on Bass, their unique blend of musical styles creates an undeniable chemistry felt by both the audience and the band. 

Originally only knowing each other through their respective bands, Izzie with ‘Thank You Come Again’ and Scarlett with ‘Fauxes,’ the duo struck a match through a fateful swipe on Hinge.

Growing into a friendship, the pair decided that starting a band was their next destined step. Officially making their debut in September of 2022, chokecherry would soon begin playing together as a declaration for what’s to come.

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“it’s really fun to share the front person duties with someone else”

Calling in from an apartment in San Marcos, a park in San Francisco, and a quick stop to “Rhea's Deli & Market,”  Scarlett, Izzie, and I sat down over the phone to discuss everything from their favorite colors to the Bay Area music scene, and most importantly, how chokecherry came to be. 

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Scarlett: I went to UC Berkeley, where I started my first band, Fauxes, with my friend Nick. Fauxes has played at Freakout Festival, opened for incredible acts like Destroy Boys, and toured down to Mexico- which has been absolutely amazing. I love being in two bands at once. It’s really exciting to experiment with different styles of music.

Izzie: Before I was in chokecherry and Thank You Come Again, I was in a band called GRLS, which I fronted with my friend Emma. Emma and I also sang together, kind like what Scarlett and I do, and it’s really fun to share the front person duties with somebody else. It feels a lot less scary-

Scarlett: And lonely! 

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Izzie: It’s really nice to be able to come and do that again with Scarlett. I guess the difference here is, everything’s just happening so fast! We have these amazing opportunities and I think that there’s just something tangible there that feels really authentic to the kind of music we want to make. 

“It’s something you expect to happen ten years down the line...” 

In May of 2023, chokecherry released their first single, Glass Jaw, which was met with viral success following a feature from The Bun 91.3. Now sitting at over one million plays in just over five months, chokecherry’s embrace from the San Francisco music scene has been all but cold.

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Scarlett: Because Izzie and I had been in the San Francisco scene for a long time, people were really excited for us to come together and create this project. Everyone called it a supergroup. I woke up and I saw we had a couple hundred new followers, and I thought that it was a mistake or something.

Izzie: It was so crazy! I woke up and was freaking out, I couldn’t eat all day because it was so awesome. I was overwhelmed with how it felt but grateful.

Scarlett: It’s something you expect to happen ten years down the line and it’s happening right now. It was really incredible and really special.

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Izzie: It’s shocking to accept that you’re in the position where the promoters are like “oh, we need to get this band on the bill.” I work marketing at a venue we’re playing in a couple of weeks, and it’s funny to put the marketing plan together for our show.

“A massive renaissance in the past couple of years”

Scarlett: The music scene here has had a massive renaissance in the past couple of years. We have a really solid hardcore scene, there’s an incredible garage & shoe-gaze scene that’s popping up, and it’s super exciting to be a part of that and watch it take off. 

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Off the back of their success with ‘Glass Jaw,’ chokecherry released their new single ‘Around Around Around,’ citing it as an “extension of the Glass Jaw universe.” An early demo of this song can be found on their Bandcamp, offering a slower and more brooding take for what would later become their second single. 

Scarlett: ‘Around Around Around’ is the first song we ever wrote together as a band. I feel like ‘Glass Jaw’ is like, holding on and annoyed while ‘Around Around Around’ feels like letting go and relief. They almost feel like two sides of the same coin.

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With an album and EP in the pipeline, and a new single planned for release later this year, everything to come from chokecherry  is destined to be their “most unhinged thing yet.”You can catch chokecherry live at San Francisco’s Psyched Festival this weekend or on tour with Death Valley Girl’s as they support them through their Fall 2023 tour along the West Coast. 

[xkennybellx]

Esto fue septiembre en Córdoba, escapando de la fiesta del milagro en Salta. Nos fuimos con Ambre al Festival Grl Pwr que la súper rompió.

Reencontrarse con los amigos que son hogar y familia siempre hace muy bien.

Cori, Turus, ustedes no saben lo bien que me hacen.

Ambre, vos más que un hermano sos como una roomie, ahre. Te amo tarado.

[jackiechu]

12.2022-8.2023 Gritty In Pink - ALL GRL JAMs & Fairwell Festival

Learnt SO much about brand partnerships and events management working with Gritty this past year. Lots of connecting and communicating with brand managers to secure sponsorships and working with brands from various industries was a hoot. Some of my favourites were Jager (bevs for backstage/artists/guests), Blackstar/Vox/Roland (backline<3), Taylor Guitars (giveaway!!), Weedmaps (pure fun) and also a handful of charities which we held IG live fundraisers for. Our latest FairWell Festival stint where we got a whole STAGE was a big highlight of my time there. Grateful to everyone I worked with who supported the Gritty cause of championing female & LGBTQ+ musicians.

[norteenlinea]

GRLS se presenta en su primer gran festival: Ceremonia

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