Roxy ‘Cuss’, Cleveland, OH (2026)

12/31/2025

On a cold winter night in Washington DC,
Roxy ‘Cuss’ played xyr glockenspiels for all to hear and see.
They spent part of the winter embracing their trans,
To help engage the hearts of all TSO fans.
Their OG glockenspiel rang on with stockings and fire, while Roxy brought out her newest toy, the Bell Lyre.
As they wrap up 2025 to play somewhere into New Years Day, A Roxy ‘Cuss’Mas thank you to all, for letting me be so q***r, trans, and gay. And to my aged glockenspiels, thank you for letting me slay! 🤘🏼🏳️‍⚧️📍📍

Bit of a whirlwind to close out the year, and very eerie trying to make music with national guard on rotation. But also Roxy was playing music for about 9-10 hours in this cold yesterday while national guard members were watching videos on phones. While you can bet who had more people thanking them for service whatever that means, I can assure you that being a presence willing to play music and provide communal resources such as Narcan has made nearly every community I’ve been in safer than police or military ever have.

I also am thinking within this year, the extent of how much I’ve grown as a musician, a human, and how opening up my world to new places has helped fuel the most relative success I’ve had to date. I also can’t forget moments like getting dolled up by to play at Akron Civic Theater and Akron Pride earlier in the year, so of all the people to thank, I don’t know how far I would’ve gotten if I hadn’t made it out to your first open stage last January. And other props to and y’all helped fuel my flames at the intersection of Huron and Jefferson in Toledo as we are making Toledo home to some of the best damn street performance anyone can ever enjoy. I’m blanking on anyone else to specifically tag an to that I blame my lack of THC so far this morning.

I’m still a hot mess living out of their car struggling to do many things beyond playing music. But I also felt the transcendent shift to not only enjoy the journey in the present to shift from majority harassment while playing to majority affirming what I do and who I am. Anyone and everyone who has been around that process, thank you.

07/25/2025

I just got done practicing some Black Sabbath and Ozzy at the beach. I intend to play two of their songs tonight at this open stage on the G***kenspiel. Y’all should come out to enjoy the festivities and performances of me and many other drag performers.

06/26/2025

Hopefully I remember to post about these individually, but next 3 opportunities to see me perform (potentially more if I learn of impulse open mics or open stages I can perform at):

Friday June 27 11:30 PM Cocktails Akron open stage
Sunday July 6 8 PM Sacred Vortex Teahouse and Kombuchery (Opening for Awkward Souls, TRASH HAG and Crunk Witch)
Friday July 11 4-6 PM Barrio Botanical Series (I’ll be leading a percussion party on top of the Planting and Painting being put on by Peter Rabbit Project)

If all goes well I’m about to have opportunities to perform beyond Ohio borders, so if local to NEOH I encourage coming to these shows, for anyone beyond coming to these shows, I want to make music and community all over I’ll take any suggestions on places all over the USA I can potentially play. Until then I’m grateful for the opportunities to play that I do have, and getting to play at a tea house and a community garden are naturally my types of vibes I’m excited for.

04/30/2025

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to catalogue the amount of songs I know plus have in the works to practice up to performance standards to show that I can hold down cover gigs for a long time. So with that I want to share the list of songs so that 1) Any drag performing friends who want to collaborate together in the future can get an idea of what songs are in my range 2) Anyone who is booking me has an understanding of the range I have (and these are cover songs, I also perform originals, largely comprised of improv) and 3) if there are any songs you want to hear on glockenspiel or any other percussion instruments, you can let me know so I can see if I can add it.

Considering I just started drag performances last September, I’m pretty impressed I have performed 13 different songs since I usually only get 1-2 songs per drag show I’m able to perform. Hopefully this also shows you why you have to come out to my shows to actually witness these performances, as I usually add something each performance that is new to the challenge (I.E. singing while simultaneously playing the G***k). Also a reminder, message me about bookings or send an email to [email protected]. Gigs give me a reason to get out of my car and actually do something productive and communal, so I’m trying to get as many as I can. Losing gigs literally makes it more difficult to eat and survive as an unhoused person, when I stress that performing is about the only way I have left of generating any funds to survive off of, I am not exaggerating when I point out music and drag are about the only avenues I have left for trying to survive.

Roxy ‘Cuss’ G***kenspiel Cover Songs
(Song Title/Artist/Other instruments)
Performance Ready Songs (*=already performed for drag):
*Chop Suey/System of a Down/Vox included
*Toxicity/System of a Down
Aerials/System of a Down/Vox Included
*Killing In The Name/Rage Against the Machine
*Bring Me To Life/Evanesence
*Careless Whisper/George Michael/Vox included
*Babe/Styx/Vox Included
*Knights of Cydonia/Muse/Vox Included
*Shooting Stars/Bag Raiders/Tambourine
*Leshiy/Grima
*The Final Episode/Asking Alexandria
Can You Feel My Heart/Bring Me The Horizon
Doomed/Bring Me The Horizon
Drown/Bring Me The Horizon
Down With the Sickness/Disturbed/Bongos Included
*Stricken/Disturbed
Whore/In This Moment
Last Resort/Papa Roach
Hot To Go/Chappell Roan
Pink Pony Club/Chappell Roan
Don’t Stop Believing/Journey
*Roxanne/Police/Vox included
Darkhorse/Katy Petty ft. Juicy J/Vox included
Born This Way/Lady Gaga
Sandstorm/Darude
*Free Bird/Lynyrd Skynyrd/Vox Included

Needs Practice:
Faithfully/Journey/
Separate Ways/Journey/
Smooth Criminal/Alien Ant Farm
Painkiller/Judas Priest
Ah! Ca Ira/Gojira/Partial Vox included
Black Magic Human/Santana/Vox Included
*I’m a Bitch/League of Distortion
The World is Yours/Arch Enemy
The Eagle Flies Alone/Arch Enemy

Ideas to Cover:
Pokémon Theme Song

Uprising/Muse

Please let me know if you have songs I need to add to this list, songs from here you might want to perform together with me, or general thoughts (I.E. who TF goes from Papa Roach to Chappell Roan?!!?). Appreciate the support as we try to grow.

04/30/2025

Roxy ‘Cuss’ sightings for this weekend! Be at Tear-Ez Friday night, and come out to Kirkland Park (East Side of Cleveland near I-90/Marginal & 49th), where we are doing this in place of Moonrunner’s being cancelled (and making a folk punk fest actually accessible instead of charging $150/ea.). And if you need to fill more stage time this weekend and beyond, hit me up, I’m always ready and willing to perform and put on a show! 🤘🏼🏳️‍⚧️📍📍💀🛏️🪕💨🎹📍📍

04/29/2025

I still have to edit videos and see how/when I can post those, but this past weekend I got to perform at Tear-Ez in Akron for a benefit show helping out CANAPI raise some money (and hearing what their organization does I may need to follow up). Had a fun time performing, got to meet some people including making music after this night was done, and felt the vibes from the crowd giving me energy.

Tear-EZ I’ll be back on 5/2 for a midnight show, and whatever songs I do I promise we will rock the house and have a great time together. So come on out!

And as you can tell, I rarely get photos of myself performing, if anyone has some more of me/us, please share that!

And bonus shoutout to Abide Yoga because I got these pants off the clothing rack last September and I could not have dreamed of hotter pants to wear and perform in!

04/14/2025

While busking yesterday near Cavs game (and Guardians too), another busker who plays regularly was mad that I got to this spot first. When I offered that we could play together, he said something like “no disrespect, but I hate g**s and homosexuality, and that’s why I never want to play together with you.” Later after performing for a while, this same alleged Jesus lover came back attempting to justify how it’s not disrespectful to say being gay is a sin and that he was gay before finding Jesus. When I shut that down asking if it would be okay if my religion allowed me to hate Black people (which btw, is what colonial tool Christianity has been used for over generations), I was told that if I ever perform at this spot again, he will get his gun and shoot me. Then as walking away threatening to get security, he ended with a “you’re gay.” Well, NO FU***NG DUH WHAT GAVE YOU THE HINT? Was it the subtle addition of pride flags on my glockenspiel? Has it been the signs saying I’m proudly trans q***r and enby? Could it have been the number of times I play music like that of Chappell Roan’s, or Queen? Or etc. because so many of the best performers in the world have some element of gay in them?!!?

If you think calling someone gay is an insult, you did not properly listen to the message of Jesus or understand why he was actually crucified. I will say if you suddenly stop hearing from me, look downtown for a bucket drummer who still primarily plays to Drake songs (because as you know about Christians, they may hate the LGBTQIA+ community but absolutely love and protect pedos), and if you ever see that bucket drummer downtown, call him out for being the homophobic piece of trash he is.

And anyone doing street performance, not even regulars get reserved spots, everything is first come first serve. I wasn’t in my usual spot yesterday because it took me over 2 hours to find parking and saw 2 different people asking for change at my usual spot. Rather than threaten them with gun violence, I moved to the next spot over to minimize the amount of walking my disabled ass would have to endure, in a spot I have also performed at before. If you can’t handle humanity, don’t busk.

04/08/2025

Next Monday will be my second ever time performing No Class as part of an open stage with Black Mass, and it’s near the 1 year anniversary of me being brutalized by police. 4 cops can’t hold me down and 5 struggle to do so and only do so when tackling me from behind to cause severe bleeding from glass shattering in my arm. I’ve felt limitations in my left wrist so I’ve been lucky in a sense to even play, even if not to full capacity I could with my left pre-popo brutality.

Anyways, as a result of surviving cops doing their job on a "mental health check-in," I will be performing Killing In the Name so all of us can drop some f-bombs to offset the literal bombs our over militarized society drops (remember, we are collectively more outraged about texts related to bombing Yemen than actually bombing Yemen).

Once again there will be a number of amazing other performers, so when I say it's a loaded line up and you should come out to support everyone, that isn't just a ploy to trick you into supporting my performance (though biased diva energy says I should be your favorite performer because who else is playing Rage Against the Machine on glockenspiel?!!?).

Next Monday, No Class, be there, I assure I'll be q***r and present.

***r ***rmusician ***rAF

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