Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers' album Bought to Rot is on our list of the best new albums out Nov. 9. Bryce Mata/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers' new album, Bought to Rot, comes out Nov. 9. Katie Hovland/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Laura Jane Grace (left) is one of 14 artists covering The Mountain Goats' All Hail West Texas track-by-track. Ryan Russell, DL Andersoni/Courtesy of the artists hide caption

Against Me! performs at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival Manchester, Tenn., in 2015. Jason Merritt/Getty Images hide caption

Laura Jane Grace burned her birth certificate at a concert in North Carolina in 2016 in protest of the state's "bathroom bill" requiring transgender people in government facilities to use bathrooms that match the sex on their birth certificate. Ryan Russell/Total Treble Music hide caption

Against Me!'s new album, Shape Shift With Me, comes out Sept. 16. Jason Thrasher/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! (left) and Lauren Denitzio of Worriers, whose debut LP Imaginary Life was produced by Grace. Courtesy of the artists hide caption

Worriers' new album, Imaginary Life, comes out August 7. Ashleigh Brooke Ahern/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Against Me! performs live in the studio at World Cafe. John Vettese/World Cafe hide caption

Against Me!'s latest album is Transgender Dysphoria Blues. Left to right: Inge Johansson, James Bowman, Laura Jane Grace, Atom Willard. Ryan Russell/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Against Me!'s Transgender Dysphoria Blues comes out Jan. 21. Ryan Russell/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Tom Gabel of Against Me! performs live at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tenn. Wills Glasspiegel/NPR hide caption

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