This is not a discussion I was expecting to be having here, tbh, but, sigh, she may very well still be the trans singer you were looking for (unless you find them. Let us know, lol)...
All of these bands are Australian (East Coast, mostly NSW). I think they would probably be described as "indie" or "alternative".
More broadly, my favourite genre is jangle pop (Yazoo, the Byrds, Go Betweens, Bangles, etc), and things inspired by it. Early-90s pre-grunge is my... Era (I wasn't alive yet. I just like the music from that time, lol).
I used to go to a lot of gigs (pre-Covid), and I have always gone to music festivals. I listen to a lot of music, just generally not the kind of stuff that is popular now, especially on Tiktok/amongst most people younger than me, lol...
I should add to this, Australia has a very strong "alt" music scene, especially in the bigger cities, but really, pretty much most population centres with young people have a "scene", of some description.
So hearing this sort of music is pretty unavoidable, even if you don't really listen to the radio much (me, now). But the "national broadcaster" (Triple J, and the ABC more broadly) also defines much of what is seen as "cool" and "popular"... So they've flogged most of these bands on high rotation at some point, even before I got to see most of them in gigs and the like...
I suppose that is arguably how I got into them, lol. But generally I just hear a song in some form of media (TV, radio, at a bar, sports match, whatever), then if I like it, I look up the band, and go from there! Or at a music festival and then the same, lol. Which works, but is also why all of those acts are Aussie, haha.
They're not necessarily my favourites. They're just my favourite "current shit", lol...
Also Wolf Alice. I quite like Wolf Alice. Who are obviously not Aussie.
This is not a discussion I was expecting to be having here, tbh, but, sigh, she may very well still be the trans singer you were looking for (unless you find them. Let us know, lol)...
This is her cover of "Running Up That Hill": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pH0-32fHU8
It's... Ok.
Music I'm into? Ah, well, it's not going to be anything like what we are talking about here...
Hockey Dad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCjXvpj4jpI
Middle Kids:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-xPosJqePo
Skegss (not into this one as much):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r72uIs69DHg
Rolling Blackouts (Coastal Fever):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj5tH-6vNKY
And finally, Phantastic Ferniture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpam-XmVTPY&lc=UgxibCJgZPokeN1YyaF4AaABAg
All of these bands are Australian (East Coast, mostly NSW). I think they would probably be described as "indie" or "alternative".
More broadly, my favourite genre is jangle pop (Yazoo, the Byrds, Go Betweens, Bangles, etc), and things inspired by it. Early-90s pre-grunge is my... Era (I wasn't alive yet. I just like the music from that time, lol).
I used to go to a lot of gigs (pre-Covid), and I have always gone to music festivals. I listen to a lot of music, just generally not the kind of stuff that is popular now, especially on Tiktok/amongst most people younger than me, lol...
I should add to this, Australia has a very strong "alt" music scene, especially in the bigger cities, but really, pretty much most population centres with young people have a "scene", of some description.
So hearing this sort of music is pretty unavoidable, even if you don't really listen to the radio much (me, now). But the "national broadcaster" (Triple J, and the ABC more broadly) also defines much of what is seen as "cool" and "popular"... So they've flogged most of these bands on high rotation at some point, even before I got to see most of them in gigs and the like...
I suppose that is arguably how I got into them, lol. But generally I just hear a song in some form of media (TV, radio, at a bar, sports match, whatever), then if I like it, I look up the band, and go from there! Or at a music festival and then the same, lol. Which works, but is also why all of those acts are Aussie, haha.
They're not necessarily my favourites. They're just my favourite "current shit", lol...
Also Wolf Alice. I quite like Wolf Alice. Who are obviously not Aussie.