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Angela Ruins is a vinyl enthusiast, artist, club and radio DJ for Hydfm Radio. For more than two decades, she's been collecting and mixing vinyl across the shadows of new wave, electro, italo, and goth-industrial.

Photo by Angela Ruins

The Gallery is a darker project by musicians raised on Bay Area punk shows and Goth parties. As a lesbian-fronted band, the Gallery features a variety of queer lyrics and explorations of emotions.

Photo by Deja Whitney, @dejawhitney

gloomy june is the soundtrack of a fog-soaked San Francisco summer. Punk and synthpop combine to create queer anthems for you to mosh and cry to.

Photo by CC Ann Li

Middle-Aged Queers are a Bay Area supergroup of seasoned punks — ex-members of the Cost (Lookout Records), Fang (Boner Records), the Insaints (Maximumrocknroll Records), and the Shondes (Exotic Fever Records) — on a mission to make punk rock gay again. Since 2019, they’ve soaked stages from coast to coast to Canada, including appearances at Gainesville’s Fest, Montreal’s Pouzza Fest, Punk Rock Bowling, and more.

Photo by Niki Pretti Photography. Photo assistant: KB Boyce

Existential terror hurrah punchy post-punk! Agender released their third album “Berserk” earlier this year, an explosive, genre-bending reflection on the chaos of modern life. Drawing from post-punk, disco-punk, schizo-synth punk, and pop punk, the album captures the tension between the self at the center of its own universe and the forces pulling it apart. With themes ranging from existentialism and love addiction to consumerism and the existential void, “Berserk” is a raw, unflinching commentary on an age dominated by hyper-information, capitalism, and self-improvement culture. The album’s ten tracks are fast, fierce, and catchy and queer af.

Photo by Lindsey Byrnes

You may know him from his viral video hit “KFC Santería,” which showcases his blend of Latin, folk, and experimental sounds.

But as a first-generation child of Colombian and Nicaraguan immigrant parents, Cain Culto’s formative years were defined by the strict confines of religious fundamentalism. As a bluegrass fiddle student and member of an indie Christian worship band, he spent his early years performing an inauthentic version of himself.

Today, he reclaims that narrative through Kentucky Latin Art-Pop: a raw, genre-defying blend of memory, myth, and resistance.

A true multidisciplinary artist, Culto uses the visual and recording arts to champion free thought and defy dogma, threading his queerness and politics into rituals of liberation.

For the first time ever, queercore climate punk band the Furious Tits and swagger-dripping rock group Thrown-Out Bones come together to birth a glorious leather baby at the Folsom Street Fair. These bands are queer as hell, fierce-female-fronted, and will have you dancing your ass off and kissing a stranger — consensually, of course — by the end of their set.

Poster collage by @lilurbain from pictures by @earthlingentertainment and @bakerrachelbaker

Black Gold Sun, a high-intensity Black girl punk trio with deep San Francisco roots, have been described as "punk at its purest: loud, fearless, and impossible to ignore.”

Featuring members of the legendary Sistas In The Pit, Dolorata, and the Hail Marys — and who’ve toured with Iggy Pop and the Stooges and stormed stages across Europe and China — Black Gold Sun delivers raw power and unapologetic presence.

Their sound blends aggressive guitar riffs, thunderous bass lines, and electrifying drums into a force that’s as visceral as it is unforgettable.

Bold, genre-defiant, and fiercely authentic, Black Gold Sun is a band built for the stage and made to shake the system.