“I have no thrill to engage with any of that nonsense. On the funeral of the Queen I took a twelve hour walk along the coast, and came back to civilisation when it was all done.” It is four days before the coronation of King Charles III and Loverboy is speaking to Patrick Wolf at […]

Synth Wave. Cold Wave. Electro. Techno. EBM. Just some of the labels others have used to categorise Zanias‘ music. However if you ask the Berlin-based artist and label-head herself, she simply cuts through the noise and proudly replies, ‘Pop.’ “I think fear of being cheesy was a huge creative block for me in my twenties,”she […]

‘Am I just a dark shadow? I envisioned being something other than a silhouette on zoom.‘ Model/Actriz‘s Cole Haden and Loverboy are having video call complications. Yet somehow our first encounter being a looming shadow, backlit by the brilliant sunshine, feels totally correct for the music the group call ‘sexy industrial dance.’ We’d also like to […]

Here at Loverboy, we adore a good romance. After a bleak few years, what we really want to hear are queer stories of flirtation, of falling deeply in love….queer stories that have a happy ending. Angst is so passé. Australians Cub Sport drop their fifth album, Jesus At the Gay Bar, today, Good Friday no less […]

Fenton Bailey is co-founder of World of Wonder Productions, the legendary platform that has blessed us with the greatest television show on Earth – RuPaul’s Drag Race. Not only that but WOW is behind essential documentaries on LGBT icons like Robert Mapplethorpe & Big Freeda and films such as Party Monster. Fenton also recently released […]

Here at Loverboy HQ we have been surprised by our new-found love for Coldwave, EBM and those colder, more Industrial-type sounds. At first we put it down to the events of the last three years – pandemic, war, recession – enough to turn anyone to the dark side. But the deeper we get into this […]

To try and even begin to summarise the career of someone as iconic as Eric Kupper in a brief intro paragraph is a nigh-on impossible task. The man has been in the game since 1986, as a Producer, Mixer, Remixer…musician who has received calls from just about everyone. His work can be heard on some […]

Pablo Bozzi has been booked, blessed and busy in 2022. There have been two solo EPs, Ghost of a Chance through Dischi Autunno and Magnetisma through BITE. Then our Lisa Lisa-sampling song of the summer, ‘That Beat In My Heart’ from one of his musical duos, Infravision. While Soft Crash, his other partnership with Phase Fatale, just dropped […]

Venezuela’s MJ Nebreda just dropped her new EP entitled Amor En Los Tiempo De Odio featuring lead single, ‘Frida Kahlo.’ Coming through to teach the children about Raptor House, the EP mixes the Venezuelan electronic genre with reggaeton, dembow and a good bit of House. MJ is signed to Channel Tres’ label Godmode and has […]