Challenging musical genres and homophobic laws while covered in rhinestones! Count us in! With his new single ‘Straight Panic Defense’, Paisley Fields turns queer frustration into a gloriously camp country-punk anthem. Mixing twanging guitars, sharp wit and a healthy dose of defiance, the track takes aim at fragile masculinity and the increasingly absurd policing of […]

Kansas-based duo Sweeping Promises are with two-minutes-forty-five-seconds of most excellent golden art-punk in the form of their new single, ‘Shooting Shadows‘. With a lyric that recalls Whoopi Goldberg’s iconic declaration, the track features lead singer Lira Mondal shredding her throat, howling, ‘Don’t want ’em in my house.’ Sweeping Promises’ introduction to the global punk underground […]

Artist, producer, and visual creative Alewya just released new single, ‘Maktoub‘ inspired by the Arabic word for ‘destined’. Alewya’s sound draws from Ethiopian and Egyptian musical heritage, blending tradition with forward-thinking production that defies genre boundaries. ‘Maktoub’ moves fluidly between hard-hitting melodies and Alewya’s commanding, razor-sharp flows. The track is led by feeling rather than formula […]

Our favourite Noise-rock, EBM punks, MAQUINA. must be reading our minds because they just dropped a collab with Spain’s best kept secret, the Industrial duo, Dame Area. The track, ‘dança‘, is taken from MAQUINA.’s upcoming album Body Transmission and is a belter packed with scuzzy guitars, crunchy percussion and howls from Halison and Silvia. Song […]

‘You know I’d break my head open, just for you.’ Electroclash, punk duo Fake Dad just released their latest single, ‘Third Degree’ and it’s a banger. Giving Le Tigre and Tegan & Sara energy it shares that same bratty vocal delivery, with a clattering drum beat. Singer Andrea de Varona shared, “We really wanted to […]

We’ve spent the last fifty-one weeks waiting for the musical highlight of the year and in exactly seven days, Primavera Sound festival will begin. Strictly speaking PS ‘26 is three days of music (3-6 June)  in the centre of Barcelona, right next to the sea. But when you factor in the incredible extras that really […]

Out today is Diabolic the Australian-produced indie film that combines two of our favourite things in cinema – the horror genre with queer-storytelling, specifically tales where the LGBT character is forced to live their life inauthentically and consequently wreaks their revenge on society with maximum chaos and carnage! Written, produced and directed by Daniel J. Phillips, […]

Earlier this year the French fashion maverick Charlie Le Mindu made his first foray into music giving us his alter ego Muchas Problemas and its debut EP. ‘The concept was always about intimacy and control, about how far you can go emotionally and physically without losing yourself.  Muchas Problemas is autobiographical in that sense,’ he […]

Self-produced and sonically unrestrained, COUCOU CHLOE recently dropped new one ‘Candyland‘. Dark and brooding but with playful energy the track is perfectly represented with the cover shot showing the visionary dressed in her best goth teddy bear ensemble. The track follows on from previous single ‘Venom’, another big one for us from the producer/vocalist. It […]