Evan Greer

Evan Greer is a trans and queer activist, writer, and musician based in Boston. When she’s not playing queer anarcho-indie-punk music, she's the director of digital rights group Fight for the Future and writes regularly about the intersection of tech policy and human rights for the Washington Post, Time, NBC News, Wired, and CNN. Her last album Spotify is Surveillance was released by Don Giovanni Records and Get Better Records and featured by NPR, Rolling Stone and Pitchfork. Her pre-streaming era debut album, Never Surrender, was beloved in the early 2000s folk-punk scene with underground “hits” like the “Picket Line Song” and “I Want Something.” Over the years she's shared stages and collaborated with Pete Seeger, Dead Prez, Against Me!, Talib Kweli, Ted Leo, Speedy Ortiz, Anjimile, The Blow, Eve 6, Chumbawamba, Ezra Furman, Immortal Technique, Mirah, Oi Polloi, Mischief Brew, and Billy Bragg.

Never one to shy away from blending provocative activism with her music, Evan Greer has announced AMAB/ACAB, a new full length album produced by Casey Neill. With percussion from Rachel Blumberg (The Decemberists), features from Eve 6, Liz Berlin (Rusted Root), Victoria Ruiz (Downtown Boys), and keys from Boston Red Sox organist Josh Kantor, Greer presents a dozen new songs ranging from folk-punk bangers about cozy but imperfect basement shows to Boygenius-inspired shoegaze ballads about keeping relationships together while the world burns.

Greer is known for her protest songs and queer anthems, and given the current political moment one might expect an album of straightforward punk polemics. But despite its cheeky name (acronyms for “Assigned Male At Birth” and “All Cops Are Bastards,”) what AMAB/ACAB delivers is more enduring and musically expansive than your standard protest . These are songs that feel forged in a time before MAGA and Trump, and like they will still resonate long after the fascists lose.