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Punk Start My Heart

B-Sides: Jump-start Queer Record Label Punk Start My Heart!

Music post by Kjerstin Johnson on August 9, 2011 - 11:50am; tagged bands, kickstarter, punk, Punk Start My Heart, queer musicians.
Punk Start My Heart began as a punk booking agency run by Sheana Corbridge and Marlena Chavez dedicated to promoting musicians of color and queer artists for shows around Portland, Oregon. Inundated with requests from superb bands on the Internet, they came up with a DIY innovation: Not Enough!, a festival designed for queer artists to get together, collaborate, and come up with new art and music projects. Now they're taking things a step further and starting a record label for some of the acts they've booked and worked with in Not Enough!—some bands you've even heard on Bitchtapes and B-Sides past. To get their record label off the ground they've made a Kickstarter video (Flash video below, download video description in .doc form here):

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