Sub Pop offers up a double-helping of vital, urgent queercode with this split single from Olympia’s Team Dresch and Los Angeles’ Longstocking for the label’s Singles Club. While the band’s had an entire state between them, their messages of queer empowerment with fiery riffs found them to be kindred spirits. Both bands would break-up within a year of each other as well. Maybe fated to be Team Dresch’s Jody Bleyle and Longstockings’ Tamala Poljak in the early 2000s to briefly form the group Infinite X’s.

-Dusty Henry, courtesy of KEXP