The Summer I released new music, and got a tan?
Ok but to be vulnerable I haven't talked to my mom in like a month. And my brother and his partner had a baby and I haven't met her yet. Her middle name is Kaos... ICONIC. I swear I will see them in the fall!!!
My tan? Suspicious, I do not tan under my hairy breasts so thats a thing, but I do not have a farmers tan, so thats nice. To be very honest the tan is connecting me to my body in a way that I love and is helping my dysmorphia. For now at least me and my body are connected... am I my body? is this weird? whose to say. I doubt many people will read this and certainly not my therapist.
I also need to just say that I have the best business partner in the world. Bruce and I have known each other for numerous years but in the last 3 we have learned we have such a synergy as a duo creating and running shows. We like the same references, we laugh at the same shit, complain about the same shit. We have some very silly fun things planned at Sleepy Queers Productions to wrap up 2025. Love you Brucey.
Artistically here is what has happened and what is coming:
Spotify
IDK y'all people say to get on a label you gotta do numbers and one of those numbers is "song pre-saves" I actually think the way to land on spotify editorials is to know someone or be connected, lol.
Thats all beside the fact that all the money spotify makes off us has been invested in military ai. What a world.
Everyone has their own priorities as an artist, its wild when I see my peers tanking their engagement by begging for pre-saves. Girlies go do a photoshoot or write a blog nobody will read or call your mother idk. Spotify does not care about you.
I feel deeply free not having to do that nutso nonsense process.
Little Plans
I wrote this song with my friend Charlie and it was produced by Full Slay Josh Eastman. Inspired by a beautiful relationship in my life. I wanted it to be intimate in a fun way that reflected what I was experiencing and Charlie was so down for the queerness of it all. I learned a lot writing with him. We wrote it like 3 weeks after my first album Arcana came out and I always knew it would be a tent pole for this album because it showed me that people wanted to collab with me, and that I am uniquely skilled to write a very specific style of Queer Alt Rock.
The song got amazing reviews Huge thank you to my publicist Jen Fritz! she is funny, smart and warm. I appreciate how supportive she is.
The video was shot and edited by Luke Beach Brown at The First Floor Collective based on an idea I had to be a spinning ballerina around the city.
Twin Lakes... Song
I wrote this song with Josh on a cold January morning. I cried the whole time. It is about my dad who died in 2020, who took with him any opportunity for me to understand the abuse I experienced from him. I am very proud of this song, it is so wildly original. It had zero reference songs when we started, we just went for it. I will be doing a deep dive on my songs for the album rollout, but for now just enjoy the song!
The video was shot and edited by Luke Beach Brown at First Floor Collective. We shot it on location at The Britannia Mine Museum.
Twin Lakes... Album
Yea, thats right, my second album has a cool title. It is named after the colloquial name of the place I grew up in, just outside Cranbrook BC. In the title track I sing about not wanting to go back, however me and my creative partner Cole Schmidt did in Fact go back to shoot the album cover. We were joined by Leo and Iris and we had a really interesting time. It was deeply wild to be back there in drag...
I am gonna have more to say about the album soon, for now you can PRE-ORDER THE VINYL
Release Show
October 2nd at The Fox in Vancouver
I had an epiphany this summer. I needed it. I was so butt hurt about never being asked to play local shows. I really just wanted the validation and to feel like I belong. Well. I think I understand that I don't find the current format to be interesting or exciting and maybe thats because I am used to drag shows that are engaging in a way that is so infectious. And hey, local music can be that too, it just isn't very often LOL. I think i would watch the shade I say if I cared. But one day maybe they will include me and that will be a win for all of us.
So when I started creating the format of this show I wanted it to be a celebration of ME. I have worked so hard, and my band is unbelievably talented and lovely they deserve the SPOTLIGHT. So I am, as I always do, turning the spotlight on us.
Ok that is all for now. I think I will surprise drop a song on August 26th. So if you read this far now you know.
Bye for now,
Dust Cwaine (pronounces K-Wayne)
ps. I would be far to powerful to be booked at green auto anyway. lol
