I was a few weeks late discovering Australian pop singer Josef Salvat's sophomore album modern anxiety, which dropped on May 15th. While Salvat's first album Night Swim (2015) was a critical hit in the UK and Europe, it didn't make much of a splash in the US. But now, with everyone stuck at home and... Continue Reading →
Today The Queer Review exclusively premieres Hell Raiser by emerging queer electo-pop artist, Joel Christian. The energetic dance track is filled with gritty synths, heavy drops and mysterious glitches that characterise LA based Christian's niche brand of dark-pop. The first single from his debut album, releasing later this year, Hell Raiser is a dirty night club... Continue Reading →
LA-based pop singer/songwriter, VNCE (pronounced Vince) launches his honest, sexually charged new album Queer today, Friday May 8th. Working with his longtime collaborator Joe Pepe, pop multi-hyphenate z a c k y and fellow singer/songwriter Brooke Day, he's produced some sizzling autobiographical summer anthems about his WeHo days and nights and getting over an unrequited... Continue Reading →
The 1975's bombastic self-isolation anthem Is it a bird? Is it a plane? The flaming fist of a vengeful deity? Perhaps a fleet of morbidly fascinated aliens back (with space snacks) for the next episode in Earth’s tragic mini-series? Trick question. It’s pop polymorphs, The 1975, digitally descending from the cloud to bless our weary... Continue Reading →
It’s hard to picture Isaac Dunbar, Gen Z’s dazzling alt-pop ascendant, juxtaposed against the quaint promontory of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, but that’s exactly where he is right now, self-isolating in his family’s New England home. For context; I’ve just watched the music video for makeup drawer where every pore of Dunbar shimmers silver and, later, a tiered... Continue Reading →
The Grammy, Emmy and Tony-winning Billy Porter has just released a soul-stirring cover of Stephen Stills’ For What It’s Worth, as performed by Buffalo Springfield. “I decided to record For What It’s Worth because I wanted to have my art and my music matter, make a difference,” Porter said. “I’ve always been a political person.... Continue Reading →
Many performers and artists are suffering with the worldwide lockdown, so the team behind the new musical theatre concept album Within Earshot: Anthems for the In-Between have announced that the first week of proceeds from the release through April 27th, will be donated to The Actors Fund. Within Earshot: Anthems for the In-Between is a... Continue Reading →
Bright Light Bright Light’s (Rod Thomas) new single and video, directed by Tyler Jensen, This Was My House are wildly prescient during our current quarantined global existence. Scenes of Rod (and his strategically placed disco ball) in his apartment juxtapose with a veritable rainbow of out-of-doors’ liberation scenes culminating in some very ‘non-social distancing’ dancing... Continue Reading →
Here at The Queer Review towers we've had one track on repeat the past few days, rising songstress and vocal powerhouse Malia Civetz's debut single Broke Boy. Backed by a bold piano and hard-hitting handclaps, Malia’s traffic-stopping voice takes centre stage as she declares her lover is “not a billionaire baller or dough boy" but "he know how... Continue Reading →
Sam Smith has marked Valentine's Day by releasing the title track from their forthcoming third album To Die For. Opening with a sample from the 2001 cult film Donnie Darko, the new track pairs soaring strings and evocative piano with Smith’s distinctive vocals and the plaintive confession, “I just want somebody to die for.” Smith recorded the song with Jimmy Napes and Stargate, who... Continue Reading →
