Expatriarch Radio #17

Expatriarch Radio #17

On July 7, 2011

Expatriarch offers a musical moratorium on the oppressive gender binary system! Your mistress of ceremonies Joey Hansom gets dark and dystopian with Light Asylum, Kool Thing, G-DMOTHER (all performing at Mort à la Differénce on July 23 at Chez Jacki in Berlin), Planningtorock, SALEM, and other grimy, creepy femmes fatales, plus the bewitching Hazell Dean.

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Let no man put a Shunda. K?

On January 13, 2011

Aside from her skills as a rapper, what makes Shunda K stand out is that she’s both gay and openly Christian. Even more puzzling is that, throughout her new solo album ‘The Most Wanted’, she’s glorifying God in one verse and herself in the next. If blessed are the meek, then maybe Shunda K’s got a Beatitude problem. Yet these contradictions are part of what makes her a compelling figure.

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Peaches Does Herself (with a hand from her well-endowed friends)

On October 28, 2010

Tonight Peaches returns to Berlin’s HAU Theater where she tackled Jesus Christ Superstar earlier this year, but unlike that stripped-down one-woman show, Peaches Does Herself is a balls-out extravagasmic stage production: Half send-up of Mamma Mia!-style pop musicals and half rock concert, it amalgamates over twenty songs from her ten-year career into a quasi-autobiographical abstract narrative on love, sex and identity politics.

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Zombie Bikers from Mars

On October 20, 2010

Saturday, October 30 at Peres Projects w/ Jeremy Shaw, Little Mike, Helga Wretman, JFK

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Expatriarch Radio #8

On October 8, 2010

With song titles like “Trick or Treat”, “I Put a Spell on You” and “I Vant to Suck your Cock”, it can only mean one thing: Expatriarch Radio is celebrating the gayest holiday of them all (aside from Christmas): Halloween! Covering all things spooky and gothic and campy, host Joey Hansom showcases witch-house/drag pioneers Salem, unreleased tracks from Berliner DJ/producers Bloody Mary and Boris, as well as an exposé on the homosexual subtext of A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2.

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