2018 - The Multivrs is Illuminated

 8ULENTINA  is a DJ, producer and interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on creating diasporic fantasy spaces through the use of sound, sculpture, garments and video. 8ULENTINA is the co-founder of Club Chai, an event series, collective, curatorial project, record label and radio show. Their DJ sets include a wide range of BPMs and genres, combining non western dance music with club, techno, rap and RnB.

 Cast as the misunderstood maker of the veil,  The Bedroom Witch  is a solo project that uses music, performance and video to chronicle a journey across various realms that begin in ‘Exile’ and end in a return to ‘Nowhere’. Her sound is heavily layered with dark synth melodies and haunting-but upbeat- rhythms. She lyrically casts spells that fabricate these imaginative worlds paralleling her own to heal from her diaspora. 

 Death In Space   is a Slackergaze band lead by Aleeya Wilson from Denver, Colorado. To Death In Space, Slackergaze is a blend of the unbridled energy of Punk Rock and Noise music, paired with the lush and swirling sonics of Shoegaze. When blended together, Death In Space sands on the precipice of not only a new genre, but a new take on each of the listed styles. Death In Space aims to close the void between the mental and the physical nature of our realities, but also create music that is just as beautiful as it is abrasive.

 Delish Da Goddess  grew up in a small town in Louisiana called Violet, southeast of New Orleans. Delish performs regularly around New Orleans and quite frequently as an emcee and house performance talent at Poor Boys Bar. Delish has performed with artist such as Big Freedia, Peaches, Le1f. Delish, who has put out 7 Ep’s and 6 singles in 4 years, has developed compilations with other underground and independent artist such as Stash Marina, Nondi, Micheal Armstead, and Lucky. She has cultivated a strong local relationship and bond which has made her “The leader of New Orleans’ DIY hip-hop movement” – OffBeat Magazine. 

 DJ DREAMER  was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a multimedia artist and DJ. Her New Orleans roots show up and show out in her DJ sets linking 90’s classics to today’s trap hits with that NOLA bounce flavor. 

   Dreamy . Radical . Anxious . Magical . Angels.  Punk trio. Moody as fuck. Queer punx. Post punk. Just over one year old and ready to rock some freaky feathers up. :P :-)

 E.Hernandez  is a Latinx producer based in the Bay Area. Their aim and drive is to decolonize the dance floor and amplify QPOC voices by blending the mechanical funk of Detroit Techno with the soul of Soca and Reaggaton and the improvisational spirit of early Industrial and Harsh Noise. 

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 Fast Execution  is the musical partnership of Alex Velasquez and Paul Igaz, Bay Area natives who have been making music together since 2010. Harnessing their dual Virgo personalities, they craft lean and focused guitar pop exploring themes of anxiety, equality, and integrity. 

   HoneyRiot  is an Oakland based Electro-Disco/House Musician & Experimental Multimedia Artist; Playfully combining Disco/Funk with Electronic Glitch and Visuals. 

 Born and raised in Chula Vista, CA,  LA Frida is   is a queer trans-chicana who has made her way into the Bay Area queer arts community as an electronic musician, film composer, and DJ. She uses her performances at local dance parties with the New World Dysorder family and at various community events to bring transfemme visibility to the stage in resistance to the cis-heteronormative patriarchal society we live in. You’ll hear her curate live sets featuring various dance genres from cumbia to techno, hip hop to house, and the throwbacks you never thought you wanted to hear again.

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  h3LLn@h is a gender-non-conforming DJ reigning from New Orleans. They keep the club poppin with femme centered sets stylistically ranging from bass, baile, house, and ballroom. h3LLn@h has played along the sides of Delish Da Goddess, $ta$h Marina, and Sultana Isham.

 Jeff and The Jerks is a rock & roll project by Jeff (Zilla) from Sunny Southern California (Los Angeles) 

 Lawrence Lindell makes music and art for Black Women, Black People, People of Color, Queer Folks, Folks With Mental Health Issues, and me. 

  London Jade, a New York City native, found herself to be a raving rap Goddess after two years facing time in the harsh court/federal system of New York State. In 2016 she released her first project, “Witch Hoe” which the self titled track blew up to now almost 30,000 plays on soundcloud. Jade has traveled all across america sharing her story as a transgender sex worker, abuse survivor, and spiritual warrior. Her journey as a rapper has lead her into deejaying, as well as engineering her own music as well. This transcendent goddess continues to expand her sound and blow her listeners away with her vicious bars and captivating visuals.

  MAL FLORA is a New Orleans based Xicanx 3-piece who formed in the tropical fall of 2017. songs are rooted in ancestor worship, reclaiming old gods, drug use, wet sex, resistance, atomic hongos, written words, & fronteras. Derived from years in front of blown out speakers & half-working gear, MAL FLORA channel a tense psychedelia.

 Maya Songbird mixes Disco, Electro-Pop and Funk to make her own out of this world sound influenced by being raised in the colorful historic Castro district in SF. The second of Liberation, Self Love, feminism and empowerment permeate the artist extensive and diverse discography.  

 Miss Twink USA is a rising force in Chicago’s thriving underground with an ear for ultra-femme, ultra-energizing beats, with a very experimental club finish. 

 My Friend is POC Grunge Pop based in the Bay. 

Ojos is a two-piece with crust vox over acoustic multi-instruments. Our brash and yet melancholic sound layered with BIPOC queer radical topics for lyrical content shows raw punk in a necessary context #folkskramz 

  ONO, Chicago’s original Industrial/Avant/Gospel/Noise Band formed in January 1980 and have been with us ever since so their recent increase in activity isn’t a comeback so much as a resurgence. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:

Experimental Performance, NOISE, and
Industrial Poetry Performance Band;
Exploring Gospel’s Darkest Conflicts,
Tragedies and Premises.

 Precolumbian is a Philadelphia-based DJ, musician and cultural creator. Her work operates as a medium for empowerment and decolonization, and was honored with the Leeway Foundation Transformation Award. 

Pumpkin, two pups in a trench coat. Cinthya and Ruby. Too many tough guys and bullies in the scene, not enough pups. Music dedicated to the brown girls in the world.

 Ramdasha has been djing for over 16 years, they came up in the punk & club scene in NYC in the 90s & 00’s. They currently reside in Los Angeles. Some of their current rotation includes Jersey club, African Polyrythms, Southern trap, & Dembow. They seek to create sets that give you solace and energy on the dance floor. They envision a future where we can be our Queer Brown/Black selves, sexy and free. 

 Scissoring, harsh textures / afrodiasporic drumming 

 When Sister Mantos takes the stage, their psychedelic blend of LATIN BEATS, PUNK ATTITUDE, and FUNK RHYTHMS invigorate the crowd to dance, sing and rejoice. Sister Mantos sings songs in Spanish and English about love, QUEER & POC empowerment, and utopias that are free of war and oppression. Audiences are sent on a spaced out psychedelic road trip and treated to mystical experience of spastic dancing, bumping beats, and POSITIVE ENERGY. 

  SKANTCH is a sonic overload consisting of multidisciplinary artists Alli Logout and Juicebox Burton. Using movement sound and looping mechanisms SKANTCH sends the audience into the portal of a manic black bitch. From violent hymns of intrusive thoughts, suicide, lack of love and the inevitable race-war SKANTCH sends the message rage rage rage, but heal…. this performance is for everyone who has ever been labeled to much.

 slanted square is the multifaceted platform of david montoya. As a music project i seek to challenge the limitations of genres and class and create a space that fluctates between tension and groove. This achieved by using instruments that are cheap, broken, have been gifted or discarded and/or borrowed and by mimicking and sampling from a deep well of musical influences. The moniker refers to the shape of a rhombus and is used to symbolize an access point and portal to and from the many intersections in the material dimension. 

 Softie is a gay synth-pop duo based in New Orleans. Nessa conjures electronic sound while Xavier croons about motorcycle rides, film noir, and sex. Our latest EP Emotional Reasoning is available now on bandcamp. 

 Squid Ink is a four piece band from Fresno, CA; blending the sounds of grunge, punk, and riot grrrl. Squid Ink creates music amplifying the voices of womxn and femmes combating the misogynoir, white supremacist, capitalist, actual dystopia we live in. 

 Sour Spirit are two brothas who are brothers making waves of harsh noise with free jazz flourishes, playing within and in spite of traditional rock structures. Meets Unwound. And though there are flashes of sounds that recall something that feels familiar, that familiarity is not nostalgic, it’s primordial. See them live, change your life. 

  Weedrat is the vision of three Diné folx from Window Rock, Arizona. They are described as angry pop/surf punk of the Southwest. The band started in March of 2015 and is still going strong in Albuquerque, N.M. Weedrat is passionate about Indigenous rights and liberation, reproductive justice and feminist movements. Raising awareness around these movements is very important to the band, and is obvious through their hard riffs and lyrics. They are heavily involved with and always down to play for their community.

  Wizard Apprentice is an independent electronic music producer, motion graphics and live performance artist. As a highly-sensitive introvert, her multimedia projects are strategies for energetically managing an overwhelming world. Her music is a combination of lyrical precision, minimalistic composition, and technically amateurish charm. She creates digitally-based media that takes advantage of accessible, user-friendly technology; allowing her to skip time consuming learning curves and get straight to focusing on inventing personalized yet highly relatable language for deeply subtle and internal experiences. She combines song and video to create multimedia live performances that explore intimate emotional themes ranging from the challenges/triumphs of being an empath to overstimulation in the Internet Age.

 Formed in Portland in 2009, Wretched of the Earth was formed with the intent to bring anti-colonial and anti-white supremacist politics to raging d-beat merged with iron maiden harmonies, quiet interludes, and a dash of psych rock. 

 Xolito Sound System, that veiled specter of natural mystic irrationality that looms heavy on the hearts of the techo-homunculi subaltern. Howling Psychedelic/chicha/dub. Or 5 piece band from Fresno Cali playing chicha/dub. 

 Hello, my name is ZEDGAR INFINITIand I am making pop music for the revolution. I mainly want to inspire queer, trans, and queer people of color to rise up, defend themselves, look out for one another, DANCE, and change the world. I want use my music to heal the wounds of colonization and deprogram the colonial mindsets of the masses. I’m your anti-capitalist, decolonial, non binary pop star fantasy