Interviews
M(h)aol’s latest single ‘I Miss My Dog‘ might be a tender ode to a beloved butch lesbian pup named Kim, but it’s also so much more. Much like their new album it’s raw, aching, and laced with that signature M(h)aol bite. With album Something Soft dropping 16th May via Merge Records, the intersectional queer feminist […]
Lawrence Chaney has officially traded in her shortbread for slot machines, swapping the gloomy skies of Glasgow for the glittering chaos of Las Vegas—and they’re not looking back. Nearly two years after sashaying onto the Strip, the winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 2 is on our screens once more in the second season […]
When Bria Salmena tells Loverboy, ‘I just love singing’, she’s not lying. She’s prolific. From fronting Canadian indie rock band Frigs, to touring in Orville Peck’s live band, releasing her own Cuntry Covers EPs and then finding time for her electronic alias God’s Mom, Bria brings that vocal versatility to every project she’s part of. […]
After six years in a self-confessed ‘musical wilderness’, singer/songwriter/producer Shura is preparing for the release of her third album, I Got Too Sad For My Friends, out 30th May. The swooping first single was ‘Realise‘, with its epic 80s drums and the message of self-comfort ‘with a coffee and a good book’. Next single, ‘Richardson‘, […]
How awkward. It would seem someone has forgotten to tell Australia’s Mallrat that the second album is supposed to be difficult…the sophomore struggle! Instead her new album, Light Hit My Face Like A Straight Right, is like really good and it’s out today. Experimenting further within the realms of electronica, the singer/songwriter/producer plays with UK […]
What do you get if you mix the cynicism of 90’s cult cartoon hero Daria, the off-beat humour of the Toronto alt-comedy scene, storylines straight out of Courage the Cowardly Dog, and starring a queer Arab and a Transgender woman? Well, you’d have the recipe for WOW Presents Plus‘ first ever scripted show, I Hate People, People Hate Me! The series follows […]
This 12th February saxophonist Nubya Garcia visits Apolo, Barcelona to play music from her most recent album, the epically beautiful Odyssey. Part of London’s exciting new Jazz scene along with Shabaka, Moses Boyd and Tom Skinner, the Mercury-Prize-nominated artist’s third album was inspired by her many travels around the world. Staying true to her Jazz roots, […]
With their debut album, Who Let The Dogs Out, launching at number one in the UK Rock & Metal chart and following a blistering run of in-store gigs up and down the country, Loverboy was lucky enough to catch up with Brighton’s Phoebe Lunny (guitar/vocals – she/they) and Lily Macieira (bass- she/they), otherwise known as […]
The Lady may be from Camden, but Rex Wheeler—the ballet dancer-turned-drag star of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 14—is still navigating his sense of self and place. In Lady Like, the alluring and deeply emotional documentary directed by Luke Willis, we see a more intimate side of the performer known for seamlessly blending ballet with the […]