Here’s our overview of some of the year’s most interesting recordings from queer and gender-defiant artists, judged by songcraft and sonic storytelling as well as political content, including Hercules & Love Affair, Planningtorock, R.E.M., Beth Ditto and Hunx and his Punx.
For our final episode of 2011, we’ve harnessed some of the year’s most memorable – and ignored – moments from the likes of Hercules & Love Affair, Austra, YACHT, Planningtorock, Aérea Negrot and Discodromo.




