Stories about: music

Archer Asks: Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale on queer yearning, feral lyrics and ‘Jennifer’s Body’
Ahead of their tour dates in so-called Australia, we chatted to Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale about queer yearning, feral lyrics and eggs.

The most read pieces of 2025: Gloryholes, horse girls, neurodivergence and Palestinian legacies
From sex work to straight boy crushes, neurodivergence to Palestinian literature, here are Archer Magazine’s most read online pieces of 2025.
Once I started taking testosterone, I made an album that documented the way my voice changed.
For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to superstar musician and DJ Fresh Hex.
“Fish felt like an apt metaphor for my own experience with being alive, for my relationship with my mum, for being queer.” Montaigne chats to Alex Creece.
For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring multi-hyphenate queer artist Kira Puru.

The most read pieces of 2024: Palestinian liberation, dyke erotica and disabled pleasure
From drag storytime to intersex solidarity to neuro-inclusive spaces, here are Archer Magazine’s most read online pieces of 2024.
“I really leaned into that vibe when writing this record – gritty, grungy and grimy.” total tommy chats to Archer Magazine.
“It’s okay to not always feel like you have the reins when you’re making decisions in your life.” mxmtoon chats to Archer Magazine.
“I wouldn’t be half the artist I am today if I hadn’t lost everything before it.” Magnets, aka Siobhan McGinnity, chats to Alex Creece.
In 1993, my mum recorded an album, Sung in my Lover’s Bedroom, a collection of tracks that were explicit acts of feminist & lesbian activism.
“Everything that I make is a mirror, a reflection of my identity, because it comes from me.” Iniko chats to Archer Magazine about their music and upcoming tour.

The most read pieces of 2023: Queerplatonic love, neurodivergent art and trans music
From Jessica Rabbit to trans music to trash television, here are Archer Magazine’s most read online pieces of 2023.
Mo’Ju has amassed critical, commercial and cultural influence. Their latest album Oro, Plata, Mata was released in March 2023.
I grew up as two things: a closeted queer and a closeted Justin Bieber fan. Just like any other girl in my year seven English class, I was writing ‘JB’ over and over again in my notebooks with big love hearts. I couldn’t care less if Justin Bieber had a girlfriend, or if the paparazzi …
Cry Club are not interested in doing anything other than chasing joy. They refuse to limit themselves, or be reduced to one genre or box. It’s an inherently queer philosophy.
Uboa and Liturgy’s music acknowledges the trans rage of disempowerment, and how unleashing that rage can create a sense of self-affirmation.
The heart of this story is a karaoke booth in LA’s Koreatown where four queer Arabs are belting Queen at the top of our lungs.

Queer horror, Tori Amos and the sex work community: Our editors’ top picks for 2022
As 2022 comes to a close, we can’t help but get reflective and sentimental – cue the smiling single tear emoji – about all the wonderful articles we’ve edited this year.
Assuming that all art is activism is bad for artists. Activism is about pragmatism; it’s about dealing with practical realities of the world.
I was leaning heavily on Tori Amos, yet I was misinterpreting the lyrics to affirm poisonous narratives this man was whispering in my ear.
Play a high-G note on a piano and take a look around the room; you’ll see who the former emos are almost immediately. My Chemical Romance defined ‘emo’ as we know it. Prior to their astronomic rise in popularity, emo was loosely applied to almost any music that played on commercial radio or sat under …




















