Queers, Beers and Rears (QxBxRx)

QxBxRx at Cake Shop Saturday May 2nd w/ The Younger Lovers, The Nymphettes and Toi Toi Toi

NEW YORK, NY – QxBxRx (Queers, Beers & Rears) returns to the Cake Shop on Saturday, May 2, 2009. This month we are Celebrating Cake Shop’s 4-Year Anniversary and welcome San Francisco queer punk band THE YOUNGER LOVERS featuring Brontez of Gravy Train!!!, THE NYMPHETTES from Canada, and local Brooklyn girl-punk band TOI, TOI, TOI (formerly Cutlass V). The QxBxRx Boys – GO-KARFF, SIR LOINS & A. MARTINI – will host and spin a mix of punk, rock, homocore, dancepunk, death disco, electro and more. The Cake Shop is located at 152 Ludlow in the Lower East Side. Doors at 10PM, 21+, $5 before 12am, $8 after. Tickets at the door. THE YOUNGER LOVERS join QxBxRx all the way from their home in San Francisco. Brontez, mostly known as Junx in SF’s Gravy Train!!!, moved to California in the late 90s, playing in bands such as Panty Raid, The Social Lies, and The Manhandlers. He started the Younger Lovers’, and released the "Newest Romantic” LP and the "California Soul” EP. He currently lives and rocks out in sunny Oakland, CA where he retains the Younger Lovers as a "philandering" band project where he's backed by a bunch of rad musicians who like to play garage-pop-and rock n' roll jamz. For more info, visit www.myspace.com/theyoungerlovers. Joining us from wayyy up North are THE NYMPHETTES, a three-piece pop-punk band that love playing live and listening to pop records. The band started in 2004, inspired by early punk rock as well as British pop music (and some total crap from North America). They are also influenced by their own interests and often nasty temperaments. For more info, visit www.myspace.com/thenymphets. TOI, TOI, TOI (meaning “demon, demon, demon” in German) is Leslie Berns, Maureen Magic Fingers, Chris Peterson and Jenny Maurer. They are a queer Brooklyn dance punk band with a mix of hair metal, rock n' roll and hot girls. They used to go by the name Cutlass V. For more info, visit www.myspace.com/toitoitoitheband. Our trashy Rock-n-Roll Gogo boys Max, Richert, and Israel will keep the party shakin’, and FREE DRINKS will be served from 11pm-12am, $5 beer plus a shot all night, and $1 beer from 2-3am. Check out the QxBxRx blog at www.qxbxrx.typepad.com. For more info, visit www.myspace.com/qxbxrx. Please contact us with questions or to set up interviews.

R.I.P Lux Interior by Cesar Padilla

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the Irreverant Cesar Padilla whose band The Ritchie White Orchestra just recently played QBR. Cesar Padilla, a sun kissed rock child of southern California, is a vintage clothing collector, musician, writer, photographer and film director. He has owned the New York vintage boutique Cherry, with partner, Radford Brown since 1997. Cherry has been rated as one of the top 10 vintage boutiques in the world, by The New York Times, Harpers Bazaar, Vogue and Elle. Padilla has written on fashion for The New York Times - Fashion of the Times Men’s T Magazine and Index. He regularly contributes as both a fashion writer and photographer to Fantastic Man, Butt Magazine, hintmag.com. In addition, Padilla has directed two award winning short films Cindy and Squaresville and 3 music videos for east la death metal band Brujeria. Most recently Padilla, completed his second, horror screenplay, which is being adapted into a novel this summer. Padilla also has three bands: Ritchie White Orchestra, Woman of Color, and White, in which he is songwriter, lead singer, guitarist and co-producer. 

 I already missed the Cramps less than a minute after the last time I was to see them and now I miss them even more. I have shed a few tears in the past 2 weeks since the arrival of the devastating news of Lux’s death from a heart condition. A little over 20 yrs ago, I saw what I thought would be my last Cramps show at the what was then the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. It was big, glossy and felt altogether wrong. I wasn’t into Bikini Girls With Machine Guns and decided it was time to take a break from the Cramps. This break ended 2 years ago at Los Angeles’s Sunset Junction Festival. As my friend Doug and I strolled up to stage right, Ivy let into the first note of a set worthy of years of superlatives. Pelvic, primal, righteous, gnarly, sex bombs landed one after the other. And Lux had nailed it. No more dyed jet black hair, he had realized it was the high road or nothing. Gorgeous streaks of silver/grey ala original Cramps guitarist Brian Gregory had emerged and went harmoniously with his vampire cape. He had morphed into the Hollywood immortal Gorehound him and Ivy had stayed up late watching on television all those decades. This was a class act. Vegas, Hollywood, Transylvania, Liberace, Flash, Dazzle, Prime Grade A entertainment.

QxBxRx@ The Cake Shop, Saturday March 7th, W/ Girlcrush, The Hand jobs and The Queening

March 7, 2009: Q.B.R.: BROOKLYN QUEER PUNK INVASION w/ GIRLCRUSH, THE HANDJOBS,THE QUEENING, DJS & GOGO BOYS!
 
NEW YORK, NY – Q.B.R. (Queers, Beers & Rears) returns to the Cake Shop on Saturday, March 7, 2009. This month we bring you a “BROOKLYN QUEER PUNK INVASION” with GIRLCRUSH, THE HANDJOBS, and THE QUEENING. The Q.B.R. Boys – GO-KARFF, SIR LOINS & A. MARTINI – will host and spin a mix of punk, rock, homocore, dancepunk, death disco, electro and more. The Cake Shop is located at 152 Ludlow in the Lower East Side. Doors at 10PM, 21+, $5 before 12am, $8 after. Tickets at the door.

 
What began as a dream in the glimmer of a dyke-to-be's eyes, slowly blossomed into an in-your-face, balls-to-the-wall pop-punk foursome. GIRLCRUSH is comprised of lyrical and melodic styling’s by a queer front-lady, musical concoctions lent by an ex-member of the Ergs, and a roster that includes members of The Unlovables, The Fun, Lost Locker Combo, and The Homewreckers. These anthemic songs will make you want to dance so hard, you'll forget they're mostly about crying over stupid  ex’s. Keep an eye out for their debut EP coming soon. For more info, visit www.myspace.com/girlcrush.

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Brooklyn girl-punk band THE HAND JOBS are rapidly gaining speed and support for their abrasively  awesome live shows. Clearly inspired by early riot grrl bands with an equal amount of straight up punk rock, this trio is gonna make everyone sweaty and wet! They recently released a split-cassette with Talbot Tagora from Paradise Vendors, Inc. For more info, visit www.myspace.com/handjobsounds.
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THE QUEENING is a two-piece punk band based in Brooklyn. Tia plays guitar and used to be in the  Fugue  and Cutter; Jon of Worms in Dirt pounds the drums. The make caterwauling rock songs that twist, writhe and bend back over themselves to completion. For more info, visit www.myspace.com/queeningisgreat.

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Our trashy Rock-n-Roll Gogo boys will keep the party shakin’, and FREE DRINKS will be served from 11pm-12am, $5 beer plus a shot all night, and $1 beer from 2-3am. Check out the new Q.B.R. blog at www.qxbxrx.typepad.com. For more info, visit www.myspace.com/qxbxrx. Please contact us with questions or to set up interviews.

2 year anniversary pics!!!!!

   On the behalf of all the QxBxRx Boys THANK YOU ALL for coming out and supporting QBR. What an AMAZING night we had! We sold out Cake Shop, were surrounded by hot fellas and ladies, had incredible music (live and djs) and brought Sir-Loin's 30's in with a BANG. Here are a couple of choice photos i took of the night, A lot of people took pictures so if you have some you would like to contribute please send them to qxbxrx@gmail.com - Erik Go-Karff

PS - sorry for the weird formatting but Typepad may be the worst!!!

The 1st band is Ruffian arms, then Love or Perish, The Holy Hail, then Mkng frndz, then Miss Guy. All of which WE LOVE. Up with the bands and DJs!!!!

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QxBxRx@ The Cake Shop, Saturday February 7th, W/ Holy Hail, Mkng Frndz, The Ruffian Arms and Love or Perish

NEW YORK, NY – The QxBxRx (Queers, Beers & Rears) Boys are hosting the 2-Year Anniversary Bash of QxBxRx at the Cake Shop on Saturday, February 7, 2009. Two years ago, the QBR boys started the party at Cyn Lounge in Brooklyn, and have since moved it to the Cake Shop, booked dozens of live local, national and international rock-n-roll, dance and queercore bands, and will continue to party in 2009! This month we welcome back some of our favorite QBR veterans to play a special showcase, which includes HOLY HAIL (ex-Fannypack), MKNG FRNDZ (feat. Tami Hart), THE RUFFIAN ARMS & LOVE OR PERISH (ex-Peechees). DJ GUY of Toilet Boys/Squeezebox fame will join the QxBxRx Boys – GO-KARFF, SIR LOINS & A. MARTINI – spinning a mix of classic punk, rock, homocore, dancepunk, and more. The Cake Shop is located at 152 Ludlow in the Lower East Side. Doors are at 9PM, show starts at 10PM, 21+, and there’s an $8 cover (or $5 before 11PM). Tickets are available at the door.

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Born from a Fourth of July Brooklyn rooftop party in 2005, HOLY HAIL is Kevin Cooke, Cat Hartwell, Michally K, and whichever friend is up for filling in the role of drummer. Their sound crosses several genres but always has a story to tell in their lyrics and some dancing to be had in their beats. After touring Europe with the UK's New Young Pony Club and Brazil's Bonde do Role, Holy Hail just released their debut album last November, Independent Pleasure Club - out now on Kanine records. For more info, visit www.myspace.com/holyhail or www.holyhail.com.
Download Cherry Street (edit)

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MKNG FRNDZ, featuring Tami Hart (of Winning Looks, Kill Rock Stars), and Daniel Erickson, the cute bar back at Nowhere, Metropolitan and Sugarland, return to the party to get the crowd horny, wet, and stinky. Based in Brooklyn, this cheeky and straight in-your-face flirty duo is guaranteed to make you dance. Come check ‘em out before they blow up! For more info, visit www.myspace.com/makingfriendz.

 

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One year has passed since their first show, and THE RUFFIAN ARMS – now a quintet – are still into dildos, exhibitionism, debauchery, and rocking out (of course). They combine early rock fury, scandalous semi-nudity, and pure sassy fun for an entertaining experience through and through – guaranteed! With choreographed cheerleaders and a hot ass (in jockstraps) back up band, their trashy, punky, rockabilly-esque sound will get the room bouncing. For more info, visit www.myspace.com/theruffiansarms.
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Brooklyn-based punk band LOVE OR PERISH combine basement style crust punk with garage rock. LOP features Massimo howling on vocals, known for his East Village Radio shows and DJ gigs all over NYC and Brooklyn, and former Peechees member Carlos shredding the guitar. For more info, visit www.myspace.com/loveorperish.

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MISS GUY is a leading NYC DJ who has rocked DJ booths all over the world. Spin Magazine calls Guy “a  pioneer in the DJ world, being the first to merge rock & roll with great dance music.” He was resident DJ for the legendary Squeezebox party, and also fronted the Toilet Boys. Guy has been recording a solo record with support from Debbie Harry. For more info, visit www.myspace.com/missguy.

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QBR will also be celebrating SIR LOINS’ 30th Birthday! Four Trashy Rock-n-Roll Gogo boys – KENYON, FERRO, MAX STEELE & RICHERT – will keep the party shakin’, and FREE DRINKS will be served from 11pm-12am, $5 beer plus a shot all night, and $1 beer from 2-3am.

LD & The New Criticism Plays 2 shows January 19th, Janury 20th

LD BEGHTOL (born 1964, Fort Campbell, Kentucky) is a musician,designer and writer. Beghtol was raised in Clarksville, Tennessee —the youngest of a large, largely dysfunctional family given to the pursuit of the arts and music — and holds a BFA from the University of Memphis. In 1995 Beghtol moved to New York City; currently he lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn. In addition to heading up Flare (aka Flare
Acoustic Arts League), Beghtol is the writer-producer and primary vocalist for LD & the New Criticism and is a one-half of the bicoastal project Moth Wranglers (with ex-King Missile bassist and keyboard player Chris Xefos). In 1998 Beghtol was invited by songwriter-producer Stephin Merritt to collaborate as on the Magnetic Fields' acclaimed 1999 triple-CD box set, 69 LOVE SONGS, on which he sings "All My Little Words," "TheWay You Say Good-Night" and other songs

A life-long insomniac, Beghtol collects odd and obscure musical instruments, and reads almost  compulsively. He has worked professionally as an art director for publications including TRAVEL
HOLIDAY, OUTDOOR LIFE and THE VILLAGE VOICE, and has written extensively about the arts, music and culture for TIME OUT NEW YORK, THE ADVOCATE, CHICKFACTOR and other publications and websites. His book 69 LOVE SONGS, A FIELD GUIDE was published by Continuum International Publishing Group as part of their esteemed 33⅓ series of critical studies of important rock and pop albums in December 2006. He is currently working on a new LD&TNC album, a collection of short stories, and a musical collaboration with Locas in Love (Beghtol was a featured vocalist and player on their 2007 release WINTER). Additonally, a new Flare album, CUT, will be released in Europe and the UK this April, and three didgital EPs by moth wranglers will be released in 2009.

Photo Credit - band image: Robin Holland

Listen to Flare: Download 07 4F
Purchase music of LD's

Monday, January 19th
CAKE SHOP 152 Ludlow Street (between Stanton & Rivington, Manhattan),
212.253.0036
Doors at 7:30pm (21 and over), $7; www.cake-shop.com
MASCOTT at 11:00pm
LOCAS IN LOVE at 10:00pm
LD & THE NEW CRITICISM 9:15pm
KANSAS STATE FLOWER 8:15pm

Tuesday, January 20th
UNION HALL 702 Union Street @ 5th Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn (R
train to Union Street stop), 718.638.4400
Doors at 7:30pm, $10; www.unionhallny.com
With special guest BEN LERMAN as your host!
LOCAS IN LOVE at 10pm
LD & THE NEW CRITICISM at 9pm
THE LEADER at 8pm

Luis Illades (Pansy Division/Avengers/French Letter) Interviews Miss Guy (Toilet Boys/Goonsquad)

Interview by Luis Illades, bloged/layout by Erik Karff

Hello out there, ladies and germs!
So here is the first installment in what I hope becomes a series of interviews conducted for the QxBxRx online sensation.  I do love a good hefty tome to settle into bed with at night, but when reading online, my attention shifts so quickly even if I am reading about someone or something that I find fascinating.  When trying to come up with an idea to pitch to the QxBxRx board members at their headquarters I found myself wondering why, what and how in the elevator up to their office on the 73rd floor.  Somewhere around the 43rd floor as I found my mind wandering, I realized that since I am practically a shut in and never leave the house, there would be little chance of me trolling the nightclubs of new york searching for a good scoop.

However, being in my twilight years, I do have a decent knowledge of queer history and interest in its future.  So, my plan is to interview people who I have found inspiring in the past, people who are really re-inventing the scene now and those who no one yet knows who show some glimmer of hope for those foreboding years to come!  I know you all hate reading so I have decided to conduct these interviews over IM (that's Instant messenger to you old folks).  I think that in this format, you will not get too much of a chance to get too bored and the subjects will not have too much of a chance to get too long winded or self aggrandizing.  DEAL? DEAL!

My first interview here is with Guy (or Miss Guy).  Guy has had so many artistic paths that I honestly don't know what stage to introduce him from.  I met guy in the mid 90's as he was cemented as New York most adventurous rock n roll DJ at the infamous Squeezebox club and embarking on a new career as frontperson for the band Miss Guy and the Toilet Boys (later known simply as the Toilet Boys).

What really struck me was how Guy kinda of set the mark for rock n roll being the center stage in a queer club.  This was something I had always dreamed of in the sea of techno beats and and varieties of house music coming out of every single square inch of the gay world at the time (and apparently still to this day).  Blasting everything from Joan Jett to the Rezillos in the first 10 minutes that I was at Squeezebox for the first time, made a huge impression on my naive sensibilities at the time.

Somewhere in that span of time, Guy started his band that to me looked like a rock n roll warrior princess lion taming and gangly groups of sewer rats that Iggy Pop had left behind at an abortion clinic. Their sound was tough and Guy basically owned it.  Although it came from a queer nighlife background The Toilet Boys didnt seem to get caught in subcultures and instead released records on metal label Roadrunner Records (an early home to bands like Sepultura and King Diamond!!).  So basically, this was something coming out of our world and kicking the machoest world right in the nuts!!!

So they toured and played shows with mega bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blondie, the Donnas, Nashville Pussy and other super tuff bands, all while in drag and blowing the shit out of amplifiers all over the place and basically setting nightclubs on fire.

I guess they broke up at some point, i don't remember when exactly, but Guy has a new band called Goonsquad which is pretty exciting and is still Djing all over the world. My bandmate just saw him DJing out in Vienna recently. in yer face Mozart!!!!

I sat down with some tea and got Guy online to chat with me about music, junior high school and that movie where Tom Hanks plays retarded and catches a white feather (below pic by Mike Ruiz)

Luis
Monday, January 12, 2009, 8:53
GUY:
Manhunt?
Luis!
nope! Transhunt
GUY:
ew! u wood
Luis!
sorry, did I offend? By the way this is an official interview. Everything is on record
GUY:
Nope, are you still having trouble getting erections Luis? Did the penis enlarger work Luis?
Luis!
Well, it was only when my cock was in your hand that I was having trouble.
GUY:
How about the Rogaine?
Luis!
By the way, am I speaking with guy or his publicist?
GUY:
ha-ha! it's his assistant, personal that is
Luis!
surely. so lets begin, yes? I want to talk about you, which I know you hate, but please humor me

GUY:
are you serious?
Luis!
why not? I mean we could reschedule til the end of the earth between your lunch with celebrities but I am a very busy person so what the fuck?
GUY:
wouldn't u rather talk in person or on the phone?
Luis!
It’s not Vanity Fair, its QxBxRx magazine
GUY:
I hate typing interviews
Luis!
No way this is the real you. Drunk at noon and online
GUY:
Lol, u don't know me, ok let's go fuck face
Luis!
no one does, but we'll get to that
GUY:
Ha-ha, true well, Madonna does
Luis!
so, first off, interviews are tres boring so let’s talk about childhood experiences like you doing cheap trick at your junior high school talent show, I mean we are talking career highlights here
GUY:
it was NSYNC, I did in jr. high
Luis!
oh right. I keep forgetting what a young ingénue you are!
GUY:
aw, thank you so much
Luis!
obviously I hit a sore spot
GUY:
You always do, can't your lady fingers type any faster?
Luis!
Well if you would answer any of my questions, I would have some real touchstones here...ok. Well in that case lets talk about something you really love. How was your lunch?
GUY:
What questions have you asked?
Luis!
I asked you about your show stopping performance doing cheap trick's "surrender" at your jr. high talent show. I want to feel the real grit of life as a performer
GUY:
I can't remember if I did surrender or I want you to want me, the live version of course! But I really wanted to do Blondie & lip-sync one way or another and dress like Debbie but my drama teacher, Mr. Deforge, said boys have to be boys & vice versa
Luis!
I can’t believe that your teacher wasn't into it. Do you think she was jealous?
GUY:
uh, Mr. Deforge was a man, a gay man I think, an old queen
Luis!
So obviously you went straight from there to being the toast of NYC
GUY:
Yes, ha-ha!
Luis!
I met you when you were in full Toilet Boys swing.
GUY:
Yeah, I thought you were stupid and ugly. I still do!
Luis!
You've stayed true to your roots in that dept. What were you doing before the point when I met you? I mean did you just appear out of thin air or where there countless years of trolling clubs?
GUY:
I was going to nightclubs from the moment I got to

New York

then started DJing in summer of '93, against my will I might add
Luis!
So you were jaded from the get go or did you have a moment when you walked into a place and were like "WOW! THE BIG APPLE!!"
GUY:
Seriously, I’ve never been jaded!
Luis!
I mean to be honest for one second, I do remember arriving in

San Francisco

when I did and seeing some of the freaky shit going on and thinking "finally...."
GUY:
I joke a lot but N.Y. still amazes me, yeah totally! I still feel like that when I see something great! Bands still excite me, music, make up, hair, etc. it all still gets me really excited if someone's doing something exciting
Luis!
I agree. It’s so easy for me to cap on the kiddies, but there is something strong in certain cities. When we play in other towns at any gay events I am shocked at how good I’ve got it where I am
GUY:
I’m excited about doing a new project with you and I’m excited about Goonsquad. Fuck,  the toilet boys is still an exciting idea to me
Luis!
I mean you have DJ'ed gigs all over the world. Do you ever find yourself at like Gay Pride Cincinnati and feel kinda bad for the 2 weirdo gays that are so excited for you to be there?
GUY:
Your hair and outfit were exciting to me at dinner Saturday night, ha-ha!
Luis!
Well I did work the coif because I knew I would be dining with VIPs
GUY:
I don't do a lot of gay pride events believe it or not, although I did Toronto this last June, it was fun, you're retarded
Luis!

Toronto

is great. I think I met you once there once in the 90s
GUY:
Really?
Luis!
I think I was coked out of my head and you smoked a lot of cigs
GUY:
ha! Yeah for a while on & off, just for show really, I thought it looked good with my look. Didn't we meet in la or SF?
Luis!
Well let’s talk about that look a little bit
GUY:
Dime store whore
Luis!
Joan Jett with a bleach job and a bulging package!
GUY:
that's a good one!
Luis!
how was that received on tours n stuff?
GUY:
I’ve heard it all, usually we got a great response
Luis!
I mean pansy division definitely had some adversarial audiences but we looked like total squares
GUY:
I think I got away with my look because of the balance going on with the guys...they were shirtless & tattooed & tough
Luis!
Not a lot of people from the queer scene at that time (or even now) got a chance to take the show on the road, so when people in other towns got a chance to get a peep at it, mostly they were pretty excited more so than freaked
GUY:
I think people thought twice about fucking with any of us though because we were from New York & scary looking
Luis!
It always helps to be super tuff
GUY:
Yeah, it's the only way my thing worked, cuz I am tough but I never felt a part of the queercore thing, although I had lots of friends who were a part of it
Luis!
There’s kind of this thing in the glam period where suburban kids would look at a Bowie or Roxy Music album for hours and wonder what it would be like to live in that world. And if they were lucky enough they got to see one of those bands live
GUY:
And we did a few shows early w/you guys
Luis!
But I feel like there was something similar to that on a smaller scale for our band and yours and some others where you would show up at a town and that one lonely kid would have tons of questions
GUY:
But we mostly had regular Joe crowds for the most part
Luis!
Yeah, us too.
GUY:
Yeah I met so many cool kids along the way, got nice letters etc.
But I was just having fun & not thinking I was changing anyone's life but I think I touched a few people…in the dressing room…after every show! ha-ha
Luis!
I agree. None of it seemed like more than just being in a band until time has passed and I look at it and I think, "oh that was a really cool experience" but.... ok.... now I’m reaching back in this handy dandy I’M session. You mentioned the whole queercore thing. I think we were involved in it but I never felt like a real part of it. The thing I always thought was how weird is this?
GUY:
Yeah I wish I coulda been more appreciative of what was happening WHILE it was happening but I was too preoccupied thinking about the future & doing better shows When really all the shows were fun
Luis!
The gay guys that were really into it were really into the lady bands, Bikini Kill, Sleater Kinney etc. Am I crazy or is it way harder for gay dudes to be into other gay dudes doing music. Is it a weird gender thing or what? Am I wrong?
GUY:
Well, I think the girl bands seemed a lot angrier so maybe they related to that & some of the boy bands were silly
Luis!
You may be very right
GUY:
I like to be silly. I think being angry is bad for you
Luis!
Me too. I mean I am a deeply troubled artist and all of that, but I just want to liiiiiive!
GUY:
But I like angry music sometimes. We played an early show with Bikin Kill & I thought what's her name, the singer, was an asshole
Luis!
I want to write angry music, but angry at myself. Like "why am I so stupid?" or a song that sounds like me stubbing my toe.
GUY:
But I thought she was amazing in Le Tigre. She's a smart cookie. You're a fool Luis
Luis!
These days I’m only into clown metal anyway. I like Korn and Slipknot and what’s the other one? wait..... Insane Clown Posse

GUY:
You keep jumping from one idea to another. Gross!
Luis!
Well,  before we talk about our amazing band that we're gonna start, lets talk about your new thing, Goonsquad
GUY:
I like The Four Tops & Smokey Robinson & The Supremes
Luis!
I like Little Anthony and the Imperials a lot
GUY:
That’s the direction I wanna go with out new band…meets Grease
Luis!
You have to be like Dean Martin though
GUY:
I like Little Anthony (and The Imperials) A LOT
Luis!
Tears on my pillow!!
GUY:
Yeah I’ll throw in a pinch of dean…Oh u wanna great story!!!???
Luis!
Ok. I need for you (and me) to focus. Ok ok good story then focus
GUY:
That’s why we should talk in person idiot
Luis!
Shut up

GUY:
We’re two Geminies who like to talk (sometimes) and we have to type. I haven't been able to read one thing you’ve written
Luis!
That’s is a problem for the school system to solve dummy, not my fault. I never learned to read!!!!! So what’s this fucking story then?
GUY:
cuz you’re a wetback
Luis!
doy
GUY:
Well, Dean martin lived in the apartment next door to me in the 60's! and he and Marilyn Monroe were good friends & making a movie together when she died... and I bet she walked RIGHT past my door from the elevator to go to his apartment! Of course this was before I lived here! ha-ha Telly Savalas lived in this building too
Luis!
I would love to attend a party with Telly, dean and Marilyn
GUY:
ME TOO!!! remember when a shaved head looked REALLY REALLY weird?
Luis!
if I wished for that from a genie in a bottle I would get to go to a party with dean Werham, Marilyn MC, Coo and Telly Smith
GUY:
Kojak was the only one
Luis!
you have to be specific in your wishes
GUY:
and Yule Brenner
GUY:
I like Marilyn McCoo
Luis!
you would fag
GUY:
but yes you do have to be specific. you wanna know why in the form of another story?Luis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9:37 yes I do The Toiletboy 9:37
I saw that tom hanks movie, when he's retarded. What's it called
u know, anyway
Luis!
yeah yeah the chocolates one
GUY:
with my best friend & we were walking down 8th Ave
Luis!
and you said you wished you were retarded and you already were. ZING!
GUY:
is that the movie that had something to do with catching a feather?
Luis!
oh yes
GUY:
buh duh bump ok, so we're on 8th by Madison square garden & out of nowhere a white feather falls & I catch itwe freaked out & my friend said you have to make a wish so I said I want to play at Madison square gardenand then a few years later my band opened for Blondie there BUT here's why you have to be specific I meant I wanted to headline MSG but I didn't say that I just said play there well, I got my wish but we were just the opening act still great
Luis!
that’s more than most people ever get in a lifetime
GUY:
yeah we did so many cool things
Luis!
its kind of like this afternoon when you wished to be chatting online with a stud tonight and you got me instead
GUY:
ha-ha I don't get into chatting online I like to meet or nuthin
Luis!
you did do so many cool things. I feel like most bands that have toured have had at least one moment that they never expected they would have. however small
GUY:
but I prefer chatting with u rather than hanging out you're boring in person ha-ha
Luis!
yeah, I at least need to get an appetizer and a bubbly out of the deal ya know?
GUY:
I don't care about that
Luis!
oh no. I totally am. I went to the qxbxrx the other night and could not seem to drum up any personality in mingling or conversing
GUY:
I just want them in my bed naked as fast as possible
no dinners no dates, no movies, fuck that, then get out, ha-ha
Luis!
was it Dostoevsky or Rupaul who once said.....you betta work?
GUY:
I know, me & the promoters were talking about how dull you are
Luis!
I’m not sure which but it makes sense
GUY:
Dostoevsky I loved your drumming, on a serious note and you are a fun drummer to watchwhich is rare
Luis!
well I’m sure that the illiterates that read this lil magazine are having a hard time with their attention spans about now. so lets talk about your new band Goonsquad. the kids have to know!!!!
GUY:
myspace.com/goonnyc
Luis!
the end!
GUY:
they can decide for themselves what am I gonna say?
Luis!
but seriously ladies and germs. what does this tickle in your lil music bones?

GUY: I think it's all bullshit anyway, yeah we're cool we're genius you'll love us, BLAH BLAH BLAH!
Luis!
I like how euro pop it is, but in a Serge Gainsbourg way not an ABBA way
GUY:
to quote Iggy, I love serge Gainsbourg and listen to Bardot a lot, but I don't know, I just wanted to do something fun and weird or something that I thought was fun & weird
Luis!
I cannot wait to see it live. will you put me on the pest list?
GUY:
no
Luis!
I have to pay?
GUY:
ha-ha, the pest list! That's a song waiting to happen!
Luis!
right?
GUY:
I like blow jobs
Luis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9:50
I write for a zine, man!!!!
GUY:
who doesn't? like BJ's
Luis!
that’s nice, dear
GUY:
ha-ha
Luis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9:50
shall we call it done?
GUY:
so what else moron? I'm sick of you already

Videos of the Month - January

JOBRIATH

Bruce Wayne Campbel, AKA Jobriath, was the first ever openly gay rock star. Jobraith was a veteran member of the original cast of Hair in Los Angeles. In the 1970's he moved to New York City where he was soon picked up by Elektra Records. The label believed so adamantly in his self titled debut record they spent $80,000 in its production and promotion. There were full page ads taken out in Vogue and The New York Times along with a 50 foot billboard in Times Square. According to Dave Thompson, All Media Guide journalist, the promotion was so huge that by the time the record hit the street it could not live up to the hype. Jobriath, has been cited as an influence by many artists such as, The Pet Shop Boys and Morrissey. In 1983 Jobriath met an untimely demise due to an AIDS related illness.

QxBxRx at The Cake Shop Saturday January 10, w/ The French Letter, Inner Princess and Ladystein

FRENCH LETTER:

Fresh into the NYC rock-n-roll scene are a little known band surely to make it big in the near future: THE FRENCH LETTER. Featuring members and ex-members of bands such as Pansy Division, The Avengers, and Early Man, this band knows how to get busy. Somewhere between the work ethic and yearning to play beyond their means of The Clash, the somber reality check of U2 before they hit puberty, the punk ethos and sweat glands of the early 80’s California punk scene, and the dance floor posing's of people we love to resent and plot against currently, The French Letter hope to find a home in New York. Making their return to QBR, The French Letter boys are ready to rock your pants off!

Download 03 satanic panic!!! 

INNER PRINCESS

INNER PRINCESS is a collaboration that began after an escape from a sadistic Mormon beauty reform school in Sothern Utah. Tdog, LeeFree and Sir Becca of the Blackwells decided to ride
east to Brooklyn, NY where the boys can be girls and the girls can be anything they wanna be. They bring their gender bending genre blending
brash brand of rawkus music to your listening pleasure. Break out your boa, dust off the tiara cuz Inner Princess is your bladder relieved.

LADYSTEIN

 

NYC’s answer to a 1950s B-rate horror movie soundtrack is LADYSTEIN. Once a duo and now recently formed into a quartet, Ladystein have no fear mentioning they are influenced by the Shaggs but better. Mixing humor with lo-fi pop, Ladystein sound at times like April March, the Ditty Bops, or if Dawn Weinerdog from Welcome to the Dollhouse had her own band. (Photo by Erik Konon)
Download 01 It's Ladystein! 

Download 03 Slinky

QxBxRx at the Cake Shop on Saturday, July 12, 2008 w/ The Dead Betties, 2 Tears, The French Letter!

This month we celebrate the lives of all Cancer’s with performances by TWO TEARS formerly of the Red Aunts. The TWO TEARS is the garage rock, soul pounding, power-house creation of Kerry Davis, former lead singer and guitar for LA ‘90s girl band, The Red Aunts. She will be joined by bassist Debi Martini and drummer Leslie Noelle, also former members of the Red Aunts. Kerry also played in Beehive and the Barracudas, which features members of the Hot Snakes and The Wets. Now residing in the Middle East, her self-titled record was released in February 2007. For more info, visit
Download 08_shit_fucken_job.mp3
Download 01_france.mp3
Please support Two Tears and purchase music here!!!

The gay rock-n-rollers of NYC finally have a new band to scream about: THE THE FRENCH LETTER, featuring Luis of Pansy Division and the Avengers, will be making their first ever live performance at QBR in July! Known for his pop punk drumming and reputation as a gentleman’s gentleman, Luis has recruited some local Brooklyn boys to join him in playing pop punk for a future generation. The French Letter boys are ready to rock your pants off, and maybe take you homo.

Brooklyn-based rock visionaries THE DEAD BETTIES came together in 2002 and quickly emerged as a strident force on the indie rock scene in New York City. With their signature polyphonics - a union between the discordant energy and angular riffs of art noise and punk, the clean melodies of classic glam rock, and complex lyrics that oppose the status quo banalities of American life - The Dead Betties quickly earned comparisons to pioneer groups such as Sonic Youth, Hole, My Bloody Valentine and Bikini Kill. For more info, visit www.myspace.com/thedeadbetties.   
Download 02_starrs_rule.mp3
Support The Dead Betties and
purchase their music here
pic from www.gay.com. Read their article here

 

Our MC for the night is BEN LERMAN, a gay singer-songwriter, comedi an, writer, and videographer. He played in the Isotoners, for which he wrote, played keyboards and bass, and sang. For three years the Isotoners played around New York, honing themselves musically and satirically to the point where the Village Voice put them on the cover of their "Best of New York 2004" music section with a full-page photo. Soon after, Ben learned to play the ukulele and ventured out on his own. He’s been playing solo gigs since 2006. For more info, visit

 

We are very proud to have DJ T-Baby, the drummer of the D.C. Riot Grrl band Partyline

The QxBxRx Boys, a.k.a. Go-Karff, Sir Loins & A. Martini, welcome chick rocker DJ T-BABY, drummer for Partyline (which features Allison Wolfe of Bratmobile), to spin a mix of classic punk, rock, homocore, dancepunk, and more in-between bands.

QxBxRx gogo boys Max Steele & Lusty J will keep the shaking, while FREE DRINKS will be served from 11pm-12am, $5 Rolling Rocks plus a shot all night, and $1 Rolling Rock from 2-3am. For more info visit www.myspace.com/qxbxrx. Please contact us with questions or to set up interviews

The Cake Shop is located at 152 Ludlow in the Lower East Side. The party starts at 11PM, 21+, with a $5 cover. Tickets are available at the door.

By Sir-Loins
Edited by Erik Karff (Go-Karff)