Why Roulette Got Nominated for the 2010 AVN Awards

Here’s a little treat for all those Roulette fans out there – the soundtrack! AVN nominated No Fauxxx Roulette for “Best Music Soundtrack” – which is so awesome because I really wanted the music to be just as hot as the sex.

You see… I’m a big, big fan of underground, indie, queer-made music – and the struggles for visibility and good exposure for indie music and indie porn, especially in the queer world, are hard, and it’s a very similar world working in both. I’ve been in four bands, including a solo project and a band with my wife. I’ve been on tour five times with Nomy Lamm, Nicky Click, Jenna Riot, and my wife’s old band Forever – it’s a lot like travelling to different places to shoot Roulette.

The music in Roulette, Roulette Dirty South, and Roulette Berlin all really reflect that travelling road show kind of feeling. Sleeping on your friend’s floor, crashing at a lover’s house after the show, leaving your favorite peice of clothing somewhere on the road, sweat dripping down your tits on the road to the next city.
Here is the soundtrack playlist for the original Roulette, and bios for all the bands included on the sountrack.


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Music Playlist at MixPod.com

Erase Errata

Erase Errata are a band from San Francisco, California. Their music draws inspiration from experimentalists such as Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, The Fall, and disco-influenced post-punk. Since forming in 1999, the band has released several albums as well as a number split singles with various other bands including Black Dice, The Need, Numbers and Sonic Youth. Erase Errata means Erase Errors (“errata” in latin is a plural neuter participle from the verb “erro”).

The band consists of Bianca Sparta (drums), Ellie Erickson (bass), and Jenny Hoyston (guitar, trumpet, vocals). Sara Jaffe left the band prior to the recording of current album ‘Nightlife’.

Katastrophe

katastrophe (aka rocco kayiatos) is an up-and-coming, genre-busting, emo-hop mc, whose stunning lyrical skills merge with beats that slide from slick to raw to solid to eccentric, creating a sonic otherworld that snags you in a dance-trance while teasing your head with rhymes that snap, pop and educate.

with a background of slam poetry, (katastrophe was a featured youth slam performer in the acclaimed documentary poetic license), katastrophe’s mc delivery veers from clever machine gun rat-a-tat to hypnotic emotional rhythm, and on his heavily anticipated second release, fault, lies, and faultlines, explores new melody.

Scream Club

Over the last few years, Cindy Wonderful and Sarah Adorable have been slowly taking the world by storm. These two have songs to touch every inch of your heart, and all the right places on your body. Having influences from literally every music genre and a love for pop music is evident in their sound, and you can’t help but have fun as you watch them on stage. With three European tours and numerous U.S. tours under their belt, Scream Club have developed a cult-like following around the world.

the Younger Lovers

Brontez, the sole composer of the Younger Lovers, is better knows as Junx from the Bay Area super band, Gravy Train!!! Don’t expect electro club bangers from this project though, Brontez brings a beloved mix of Northern Soul and garage rock to these songs, with lyrics you wouldn’t expect to see out of a boy who’se usualy dancing naked with Gravy Train!!! across the country.

Cottages

Cottages is one of those bands you wish you had heard while they were still playing shows. A little punk, a little surf, a little new wave and noise, Cottages doesn’t really sound like your average “queer band.” Why? Because they don’t believe in “queer” music – they just believe in making great sounds no matter who ya are.

Stephen Stienbrink & French Quarter

“Pudgy” – Benjamin Leatherman, Phoenix New Times, August 2007

Hello. My name is Stephen Steinbrink, and this is a my biography typed in the first person. Thank you for reading. I was born to my mother, father, brother, and eventually my two sisters on May 1st, 1988 in Phoenix, AZ. Later, I grew up and with the help of the punk and diy community in the phoenix metro area, I learned how to write songs and put out tapes and records and cd-r’s and tour constantly and play shows everywhere with everyone. This “band” or “performance project” or “scam” used to be called French Quarter, but now it is called stephen steinbrink, which is also my name. I feel more comfortable with this. Sorry for the confusion. Anyway, listen to my records, or don’t, or whatever. Thank you eternally for the moments that have been shared, or will be shared.

the Divine Feud

the Divine Feud was Courtney Trouble (owner of NoFauxxx.Com and the director of Roulette, if you didn’t catch that already) plus Marissa Magic and Kandis–three girls with a dynamic obsession with free drinks, loud speakers, and hating male sound techs.

Delta Dart

Formed in 1999 in Los Angeles, CA, this long-distance trio called Olympia, WA and California home. Delta Dart was comprised of Sissy Chrome, Amber Bayer, and Erin McCarley. Using acoustic and electric guitars, bass, casio, turntables and vocals they created heartwrenching songs

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