PWR BTTM To Donate Proceeds From Tomorrow’s Orlando Show To Pulse Tragedy Community Fund
What’s so refreshing about New York based rock duo PWR BTTM is their explicit embrace of queerness within their work. The wildly prolific author and activist Sarah Schulman writes in In Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences of queer creators who sadly become successful only by eliminating queerness from their work and embracing heteronormativity–that is not what Liv Bruce and Ben Hopkins do in PWR BTTM. Their music, and presence–both online and on stage–disentangles and confronts society’s attribution of gender and sexuality in a way that is undeniably soothing to my queer self, but also genuinely sonically entrancing.