Perfume Genius Live

Review of Mike Hadreas' Tuesday night Lamberts performance

"...of people every night. In recounting a troubled adolescence, Perfume Genius, the Seattle-based solo project of Mike Hadreas, has..."

March 28, 2012 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Music Mo'nday: Dark Parts with Perfume Genius

Rob chats with Mike Hadreas about drugs, Whitney, and more.

"...rarely get anything as pure as the music of Perfume Genius. It turns out the genius behind Genius is..."

March 26, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Qmmunity’s Queer Guide to SXSW

LGBTQIA programming, parties, and more at South By 2022

"...with me now: "Life's so fun, life's so fun." Perfume Genius..."

March 11, 2022 Features Feature by James Scott

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Wednesday

The buzzy, the brave, the thrash-able twee-pop

"...meditations, and find your way into beauty. – Michael TolandPerfume Genius Pounds the Pulpit..."

March 17, 2022 Music Post by Michael Toland

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...put my whole mind in rice."   E. Ryan Ellis Perfume Genius..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

Gay Place

Glad to make your acquaintance, weary traveler, we are The Gay Place.

"...SXSW MUSIC: PERFUME GENIUS Put your back into it with the fragile..."

March 14, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

20 Favorite Songs of 2012

Gay Place blogger Rob weighs in with individual lists

"..."Take Me Home" Perfume Genius Mike Hadreas, my kindred spirit, is just a..."

Jan. 8, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

We Have an Issue: Blastoff

The story behind Richard Linklater’s new Netflix coming-of-age film, Apollo 10½

"...Best of the Music Fest: Park Jiha, Perfume Genius, Geese, Tuyo, Young Thug, Commando, Shawn Mendes, Fuck..."

March 25, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones

Scenes from Day 7 of SXSW 2022

"...Perfume Genius at Central Presbyterian Church presented by Song Exploder..."

March 17, 2022 Photo Gallery

Faster Than Sound: Wait, How Does SXSW Music Work Again?

Breaking down the basics, and some favorites, after three years away

"...at Central Presbyterian Church, with a stellar lineup of Perfume Genius, Kimbra, Fly Anakin, Sarah Kinsley, and Jenny Owen..."

March 11, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Summer Fun Playlist: Release Shows TBA

"...– could station Balmorhea's co-founder as Texas' equivalent to Perfume Genius...."

May 29, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Checking In: Sweet Spirit Alights to Trinidad

Austin glam rockers’ third LP casts a deep digi/Tropi spell

"...my porch, I listen to Roy Orbison, Alicia Keys, Perfume Genius, Jeff Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Brandi Carlile, Otis Redding...."

May 27, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Day for Night Festival 2017

"...Perfume Genius..."

Dec. 19, 2017 Photo Gallery

Cate Le Bon

"...sake. "I Think I Knew," a delicate duet with Perfume Genius' Mike Hadreas, revels in its sparseness, taking you..."

March 14, 2014 Music Review by Abby Johnston

Gay Place: Total Gayhem

Where my queers at? GayBiGayGay, b'duh.

"...SXSW MUSIC: PERFUME GENIUS Thu., March 13, 9pm. St. David's Sanctuary, 301..."

March 14, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

S.H.I.T. – So Happy It's Thursday blurbs

"...alto comes in both English and Spanish. Abby Johnston Perfume Genius..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

SXSW Thursday Showcases

Turnstile Presents, 2k14 SeoulSonic, Metal Injection, Womex, Sounds From Colombia, BBC Introducing, Ground Control Touring, M for Montreal, Western Vinyl

"..."We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives," stakes its impressionability. Perfume Genius, the sobriquet of Seattle's Mike Hadreas, takes the..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Best of Austin: End of an Ear

"Best of Austin" 2013 is coming. Let's look back at some previous bests.

"...occasional life-coaching session. In-store events (Golden Boys! Agent Ribbons! Perfume Genius!) are not to be missed. So get off..."

Sept. 11, 2013 Columns Post by David Estlund

2012 Was Tops

Gay Place blogger Andy weighs in with individual lists

"...6) Le1f. Zebra Katz. Frank Ocean. Ab Soto. Perfume Genius. Your favorite mixtape...."

Jan. 7, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Mo' Music

Listen to these instead of your loved ones this weekend

"..."Take Me Home" Perfume Genius If I saw him at the gas station..."

Nov. 20, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Music Mo'nday: Feb. 6

Spin, spin, sugar.

"...Hood - Perfume Genius..."

Feb. 6, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Music Mo'nday: Dec. 12

Austin, London, Paris, Munich, everybody talk about pop music

"...Perfume Genius, the fragile little gay ghost who lives in..."

Dec. 12, 2011 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...PerfumeTree PERFUME TREE: While major-label trip-hop divas get their navels..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...PERFUME TREE..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

From Script to Screen

"...exploding heads here, but plenty of heart and some genius set design from the men behind the Organic Theater..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Screens Feature

Mixed Metaphors

These craft cocktails are for the books

"...Book: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers..."

June 17, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

The Luv Doc: Churchy Parents

People who give a lot of thought to having a baby are both adorable and hopelessly optimistic

"...Your friends are human, Partydowner. They probably had a..."

May 5, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

The Ascent of Mandolin

The next step in Avi Avital's mission to convert the world to mandolin: Vivaldi

"...through the chorus, then the music explodes. Vivaldi uses genius tricks to concentrate and condense the emotional power; the..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Arts Feature by Natalie Zeldin

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...the collapse of Enron as an example of the "genius of capitalism"). Ralph Nader himself said that he hoped..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Column

Beat Currencies

In a look at some recently reprinted classic works by the Beats, Chronicle writer Dale Smith examines why being on the road was such a dangerous place -- and why it no longer is.

"...Jack Kerouac's expansive genius for language produced some provocative formal experiments. Book of..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Books Feature by Dale Smith

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