"Why I Like Dead Guys", debut release by TLES satellite project Trust Me, out March 27
- Mar 12
- 3 min read
Trust Me – a new band featuring queer storyteller Lynn Breedlove, guitarist Travis Andrews, and percussionist Andy Meyerson – releases their debut album, Why I Like Dead Guys, on all digital platforms March 27.
A satellite project of The Living Earth Show, Trust Me centers Why I Like Dead Guys on the unfathomable tragedy Breedlove experienced in 2020: the brutal murders of his father and stepmother by his stepbrother in their Grass Valley home. In August 2024, the trio recorded the project and built a live show that tells the story of grief, love, and growth over seven days in the house where the murder took place.
Trust Me has also announced a special album release show in San Francisco at Roar Shack Live! on Wednesday, March 25. Trust Me has also been announced as a performer in this year’s Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN. The band will be performing on Saturday, March 28 at 2:45pm at The Blackbox. More information is available here.
It’s not an exaggeration to call Lynn Breedlove one of America’s most important queer artists and most influential living storytellers. From his formative career as the lead singer of seminal dyke punk band Tribe 8 to his work as a trans activist in San Francisco founding the nonprofit rideshare service Homobiles, to his Lambda Literary Award-winning book and solo stage production Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show, Breedlove has used a singular voice to tell queer stories for over thirty years.
Tremendous solo artists in their own right, Travis Andrews and Andy Meyerson are also the co-founders of The Living Earth Show (TLES), a San Francisco-based ensemble/organization that has been championing the ambitious work of vital musical creators since its founding in 2011. Simultaneously one of the premiere contemporary chamber ensembles in the US, a groundbreaking production company (TLES Productions), and an experimental record label (Earthy Records), TLES has created a wide-ranging infrastructure that enables uncompromising collaboration, foregrounding artists and work that challenge, engage, and inspire.
Though the trio had all worked together in the queer nü metal collective COMMANDO, Trust Me has become one of the heaviest, most beautiful, inspirational, and ambitious projects they’ve participated in.
Listen to their evocative new single + video, “Cornfed Boy Finds Bag.” The stripped back track unfolds as a poignant narrative set against the AIDs crisis, summoning a nameless yet deeply influential hero from Breedlove’s past during a brief turn through the San Francisco underground in the late ‘80s who left a lasting impression. As queer liberation gives way to loss when the figure tests HIV-positive and suddenly leaves the community behind, Breedlove confronts his own return home, reflecting on chosen family and the fleeting nature of human connection.
“I only knew him for a few months, and he made a huge impact on me,” Breedlove says. “He was beautiful and charming and innocent, and then suddenly he got sick and went away. He’s just an example of how we touch each other’s lives and how fragile those lives are in this community.”
Live performances:
Why I Like Dead Guys Tracklist:
1. Incompetent
2. Tale of Two Boys
3. Mike Brinson
4. House on the Hill
5. Scratch N Sniff
6. The Portal
7. Intact Male
8. Cornfed Boy Finds Bag
9. Don’t Take It Personal
10. Why I Like Dead Guys
Album Artwork: Lynn Breedlove
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