Author Archives: Michael Turnbull

Get ready to sweat at Primavera Sound 2025

We’re officially at the half way point, with just six months to go until the next edition of Primavera Sound. Heading up 2025’s edition is the holy pop trinity of Charli XCX, Chappell Roan & Sabrina Carpenter coming to save the world. But Charli XCX has just announced that she is inviting Troye Sivan to […]

REVIEW: Lambrini Girls – Who Let The Dogs Out

Storming forward from 2025’s starting blocks, and kicking out gleefully at anything that moves, Brighton-based Lambrini Girls have exactly the album to throw you forward into the new year with your fists swinging in Who Let The Dogs Out – out Friday via City Slang. Following their critically-acclaimed EP, ‘You’re Welcome’, which contained messages of anti-transphobia (‘Terf Wars’) […]

Albums of the Year 2024

Spotify’s Wrapped really did a number on us this year. Instead of reminding us of all the stellar new artists we had discovered during the last twelve months, they just revealed how basic our every day tastes really were. Also a reminder of why we hate the platform, Wrapped definitely has a bias towards the […]

DragCon UK 2025: Wrapped 2024 With Cheryl

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – but 2025 is already gearing up to go off with a bang as over 200 queens from the RuPaul’s Drag Race universe descend upon ExCeL London January 10th – 11th for DragCon UK 2025! We asked host of OutTV’s “The Gold Rush”, Miss Taylor Trash, to do some diggin’ […]

Chloé Caillet in Conversation with Jossy Jaycoff for Loverboy

DJ/Producer Chloé Caillet has been taking her SMIILE party out on the road, celebrating queer joy in cities around the world. Chloé also recently dropped the celebratory Here to Make You Smiile EP via her own label, SMIILE records. Jossy Jaycoff is visual artist and trans activitst who has made waves in their adoptive city […]

Hidrogenesse on 25 years of making music, Alan Turing & Stella Maris

Next year, Spain’s Hidrogenesse celebrate twenty five years of releasing music together. The duo of Carlos Ballesteros & Genís Sagarra began recording at the dawn of electro-clash, inspired by the DIY of it all, mixing Punk and a PC. Since then Hidrogenesse have continued to release intelligent, creative projects, always with one eye arched. Looking […]

Lee from Steps joins & Juliet’s UK & Ireland Tour

It’s just been announced that Steps’ Lee Latchford-Evans will now be joining the cast of the smash & Juliet on its current tour of the UK & Ireland. Steps are the UK’s most successful mixed gender pop group of all time along with being one of Britain’s queerest and camp bands ever. Taking on the role of […]

NEW: Babymorocco – Amour

If you just lived your best brat summer then pull on your Bikini & Trackie for a bangin’ Babymorocco winter. Pop really has been dominated by the girlies in 2024, but this week London’s rudeboi Babymorocco just threw his Hyperpop hat into the ring with Amour. Like Charli’s concept for a Y2k, messy, Ed Hardy-dressed […]