Jon Ginoli is best known as the singer, guitarist, and founder of pioneering gay rock band Pansy Division. He has also worked for record labels and distributors, written for magazines and fanzines, promoted gigs, and worn many hats in independent music scenes over the past three decades. Ginoli’s critically-acclaimed memoir, Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division, is available from Cleis Press.
I logged thousands of hours as a college radio DJ in the early 1980s, and have spun in clubs every once in a while since. House mixing is alien to me. I don’t like to extend songs, or blend them seamlessly. I want to slam different things together and mix them up, but still make sense. I want dynamics, not sameness. (More…)