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Haute & Freddy | Metal Magazine
“I wanna shut the blinds and close my eyes. In a world where there’s no time…”. Imagine a world with no conception of time, at least not the one we have: completely devoted to work, achievements, norms and many other forms of oppression. Something similar to what Hsing and Luis experience in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Paradises Lost: they have never known Earth, nor can they expect to experience the promised destination themselves.
Arca – XXXXX | Metal Magazine
Counterculture has become suspiciously recognisable. It now comes with its own uniforms, playlists and festival line-ups. For years we’ve mistaken distortion for disruption. The aesthetics survived but the resistance to the system didn’t. Punk became fashion. Indie became branding. That doesn’t mean that music isn’t still the most challenging artistic field in which to place cultural thinking through the work of avant-garde artists.
TSATSAMIS: The Morning After Music
Few artists capture the tension between euphoria and vulnerability quite like Tsatsamis. We spoke with the London musician about Tsycophant, queer identity and embracing contradiction as a creative force. Navigating queer life as gay men in 2026 certainly feels challenging.
Charli xcx – Music, Fashion, Film
In an interview with New York Magazine during the brat era in 2024, Charli xcx discussed her viral ‘Kamala is brat’ comment during that year’s US presidential election and the impact it had on the politician’s press campaign. “My music is not political. Everything I do in my life feeds back into my art. Everything I say, wear, think, enjoy — it all funnels back into my art. Politics doesn’t feed my art,” she explained.
Ryan Beatty: el músico que convirtió el cancionero clásico estadounidense en un hogar para el amor queer
Existe una tendencia recurrente en la música popular a convertir el desamor en el gran motor creativo. Las rupturas, el duelo o la pérdida suelen ofrecer un relato más inmediato que la estabilidad emocional, casi como si la felicidad careciese de matices suficientes para sostener un álbum entero. Y bien sabemos que necesitamos algo de optimismo y felicidad en estos momentos. Ryan Beatty toma precisamente la dirección contraria en 'Sweet Fortune', su cuarto trabajo de estudio.
House androcentrista: por qué la electrónica de consumo ha neutralizado lo queer
«Los hombres gais que escuchan esto durante ocho horas y dicen que ha sido la mejor noche de sus vidas siempre me dejarán perplejo» se lee en un reel de Instagram, subido por @jamlikejelli, de 8 segundos de duración, y donde éste simula a esas personas que aguantan interminables jornadas de macro fiestas conducidas por un tipo de música muy fácil de identificar. Si pensamos en etiquetas, podríamos decir: tribal techno, progressive house, circuit music, hypnotic techno y otra serie de mierdas.
Antonio Rodríguez Molina
Colaborador Comunicador cultural y colaborador en prensa escrita especializado en música internacional, arte y cuestiones queer, para METAL Magazine, MOR.BO, Fucking Young!, Loud & Queer, VEIN, elDiario.es y SIX Revista. Ha sido responsable de comunicación de La Térmica, la Alianza Francesa de Málaga y diversos festivales culturales, así como iniciativas de carácter social en Andalucía. Actualmente es agente de prensa independiente y dirige la comunicación del Festival de Cine Francés de Málaga.
Active Child | Metal Magazine
The opening bars of Roll the Dice give the impression that we are drawing ever closer to a scene: a few chords are introduced, and Active Child’s musical universe emerges with a sense of familiarity. The artist has created one of the most distinctive soundscapes in contemporary music and, after a hiatus of around five years, is back with a new self-titled album. As he explains, the album feels like a fresh take on his work.
Madonna – “Confessions II”
Just seven months ago, we were celebrating the 20th anniversary of Confessions on a Dance Floor, one of Madonna’s finest albums. It was a celebration with a message: even then, we knew the Queen of Pop intended to revisit the energy of this iconic record with a sequel. Fast forward to July 2026 and here we are, in a world that only seems to grow more difficult, with the megastar finally delivering on that promise: Confessions II.
The Haunted Youth
There are few things more revealing than heartbreak. Beyond the pain itself, it often exposes the mechanisms we have been taught about ourselves: how we should behave, which emotions we are allowed to express, and where vulnerability is supposed to fit within our understanding of adulthood. For men in particular, those questions have become increasingly complicated.
Eli | Metal Magazine
Eli talks like somebody who learnt pop music through YouTube comment sections, reality-television elimination nights, Tumblr-era emotional devastation, and the deeply sacred cultural experience of refreshing Twitter to see if your fave survived another week. If you don’t understand what any of those things are, maybe it’s a sign to start catching up with the world. Stage Girl is one of the greatest albums of 2025.
Hyd | Metal Magazine
There are things that need no introduction, not because they don’t deserve one that gives them their due, but because an introduction can sometimes dull the impact of encountering something new: a new sound, a new approach, a new thought. That is exactly what happens when you enter the work and universe of Hyd. In both their artistic practice and their music, they invite you into a world of other shades and nuances, one they are unafraid to explore.
Olof Dreijer | Metal Magazine
There are artists whose work can be separated from their public persona, and then there are artists for whom that distinction becomes almost impossible, because their creative output has always functioned as an extension of their ethics, politics and way of inhabiting the world. At a time when cultural conversations increasingly revolve around accountability, responsibility and the moral implications of art itself, the figure of Olof Dreijer feels especially significant and inspiring.
Pete Ohs | Metal Magazine
We are all surrounded by a social network that constantly suggests, through countless algorithms, what the best version of our lives could — and should — be. It has become so inherently present in our world that optimising and sharing ourselves now feels like part of our daily routine.
Lykke Li – The Afterparty
Emotions and time: two linked concepts that have tortured some of the greatest minds in history. “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past,” explained Virginia Woolf in The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930 (Hogarth Press, 1977).
El Último de la Fila vuelve frente al mar de Fuengirola: 30 años después, la misma emoción
El paseo marítimo de Fuengirola presentaba un oleaje animado en la tarde del sábado, casi como si el mar anunciase un importante acontecimiento a punto de ocurrir. Las previsiones meteorológicas volvieron a fallar en el sur del país: el cielo se despejó, y en la ladera que se deja caer del Castillo Sohail a la playa, se sentía la vuelta a los escenarios de El Último de la Fila, una de las bandas más importantes de la historia del pop-rock español.
Avalon Emerson & The Charm
Sometimes change creeps up on us quietly, almost without us realising it; at other times, it takes everything by storm and transforms it all at once. Right now, it seems that change is so pervasive and advancing so rapidly in our collective lives that it is almost impossible to imagine this moment without it. But, in a way, we have lost our focus on the importance of drawing a line in our minds to mark a new phase.
Morgan Hislop | Metal Magazine
Sometimes life leaves us strange clues or places certain things in our path, giving our intuition a sense of purpose. It might just be a trick of the mind, or something we humans have chosen to believe so that we can feel everything has a meaning. Imagine that one day you pick up a bargain record for £1, and it contains an unknown a cappella track that suddenly clicks. This happened to Morgan Hislop, who has just released his new EP, Nice Try!.
Art School Girlfriend
An exquisite beat starts as you prepare to listen to Doing Laps, the first track of Art School Girlfriend’s new album, Lean In. Before different layers of sound start to intertwine atmospherically, the sound of a ringtone surprises you as part of the hook. It is coded into modern times, with a sense of the frantic, now things are faster than ever. “Delete it all and start again. Just living through a phone.
Robyn – “Sexistential” | Metal Magazine
The ecosystem in which we live, fuelled by rushes of dopamine and other self-produced chemical hits, is built upon, among many other concepts, the cult of youth. Discreetly, the neoliberal politics that feed the algorithms we live by have managed to trap us into thinking and acting with one singular goal: to stay young. Consequently, many of us struggle as we reach certain ages, finding ourselves without references for how to simply let nature take its course.
Marlon Hoffstadt
Music is a wonderful way to measure the passage of time, allowing us to observe how society evolves and how social behaviours and norms change. When discussing the constantly expanding category of electronic music, it is impossible not to view it today as an essential component of music production, rather than just a genre in its own right.
James Blake – “Trying Times”
Pop music is obsessed with love, yet typically only of a very specific kind. Corporate marketing has hollowed out the phrase ‘love is love’ to such an extent that it struggles to signify anything beyond conventional romance. However, from a social perspective, love encompasses and demands so, so much more. In Trying Times, his first fully independent album since parting ways with Republic Records, James Blake seems mindful of the need to situate that emotion within a more complex framework.
Naïka | Metal Magazine
A process of change is taking place in pop music that can be seen especially in the new generation of artists; those who, because they are young, carry the worry that they will not have a decent future and must accept it. Many of them wanted to be pop stars from the moment they saw artists glow on TV (or on their smartphone screens). Zoomers’ strength is embracing difference. This way, they are provoking and promoting their own future where there is light.
Gorillaz – “The Mountain” | Metal Magazine
Sometimes you reach a point where escaping into fiction no longer works. Your rent keeps rising while your wages stagnate. Cities begin to feel identical, places you are merely passing through rather than belonging to. All that talk of ‘things getting better’ starts to sound hollow when you’re the one struggling to keep up. Gorillaz’s new album, The Mountain, understands this. Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett don’t pretend that pop music exists in a vacuum, separate from everyday hardship.
Isabelle Albuquerque
Interview taken from METAL Magazine issue 53. Adapted for the online version. Order your copy here. There are artists who sculpt with material, and there are artists who sculpt with life. With pain and the quiet pulse of longing. Isabelle Albuquerque does both. She studied architecture and theatre at Barnard College and lives and works in her native Los Angeles. Her works breathe, bruise, and shimmer like bodies whispering their own names back into the world.
Joji – “Piss in the Wind” | Metal Magazine
There’s a strange comfort in heartbreak when someone else narrates it for you. Joji, born George Kusunoki Miller, has been doing this quietly and brilliantly for nearly a decade — firstly as a viral internet figure, then as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary alternative pop and R&B. Piss in the Wind, his fourth studio album and first since leaving 88rising, marks a return after a three-year hiatus. It is both familiar and unfamiliar, tender and tough.
Solitary Dancer | Metal Magazine
From the deepest darkness, we seem to hear a texture unravelling as it approaches us. It is rough and sharp, and as it draws nearer, a few heartbeats begin to shed light on the bigger picture: forty bodies caught in shifting states of tension, softness and release. They merge into a whole that functions as a complex structure to the point of becoming a collective parade with one goal: human connection.
Celebrating Björk’s 60th Birthday
The landscapes, being the first country with the first democratically elected female head of state worldwide, the lack of annoying mosquitos, a huge social and political commitment in its society or being a very, very cold place. These are facts why we might refer to Iceland, but, when we think about this singular place in the world, the name that unquestionably comes to our minds is the one and only: Björk.
Madonna – “Confessions on a Dance Floor (20th Anniversary)” | Metal Magazine
“I’m gonna tell you about love. Let’s forget your life. Forget your problems. Administration, bills and loads. Come with me…” Madonna whispered these words nearly twenty years ago on the Confessions Tour, folding Future Lovers into Donna Summer’s I Feel Love. At the time, the phrase felt like a seductive escape hatch — a disco incantation promising temporary utopia.
Lily Allen – “West End Girl” | Metal Magazine
Have you ever had your heart broken? If the answer is yes, I need you to focus on that memory. It’s difficult, these experiences are unforgettable, but also instructive in helping us recognise this kind of pain. What do we ask of pop stars when life breaks them open? Perhaps a guide to help us navigate our own shattered pieces, asking to be recollected after manipulation.
Anatole Muster | Metal Magazine
We’ve grown so accustomed to the familiar instruments of pop — the shimmering guitar, the pulse of drums, the emotive sway of piano — that they’ve become the invisible architecture of this modern music. But every so often, an artist appears who rewires our sense of what pop can hold. Anatole Muster, the 23-year-old Swiss-born, London-based musician, composer, and accordionist, does just that.
Dan English | Metal Magazine
Poetry works in mysterious and wonderful ways. Not only in the literary context, but in life in general. Its infinite possibilities not only forge unique approaches to art, but also touch the soul in many different ways, thanks to how we live our lives poetically, and above all, how artists reveal them. Dan English, the composer originally from Iowa and recognised for blending the confessional with the otherworldly, unveiled his second full-length release, Sky Record and it’s poetic.
Ai Weiwei | Metal Magazine
Interview taken from METAL Magazine issue 52. Adapted for the online version. Order your copy here. Do you remember when you were a child and thought about the future? I do. Like many others, I remember daydreaming about it. Yes, that archetype à la Frutiger Aero with flying cars, humans dressed in white latex eco-suits, and nature and technology living in harmony. When we think about this, we understand the future was meant to be positive, better.
Jade – “That’s Showbiz Baby!” | Metal Magazine
Imagine steeping into the spotlight when you’ve already lived most of your adult life under it. Fame is both a dream and a curse, and Jade’s debut album, That’s Showbiz Baby!, doesn’t just embrace that contradiction — it thrives on it. More than a collection of pop songs, it’s a commentary on performance itself: how much of the self is left when you’ve been turned into a spectacle, and what happens when you reclaim the spectacle for yourself.
Blood Orange presenta un diario tan íntimo como universal en nuestro album review del impetuoso "Essex Honey"
¡No te pierdas de nada! 👽 Un resumen de historias para leer, mirar y escuchar cada semana. 0% Spam. GDPR. No quiero, gracias Es inválido 💣 Mental Health ¡Espera un poco! Read and listen Ayy, close that door, we blowin' smoke Share Twitter Facebook Copy link Es curioso pensar en Essex como un paisaje emocional: un rincón del sur inglés que, en manos de Devonté Hynes, se convierte en mapa sonoro, archivo de memoria y archivo de duelo.
Sabrina Carpenter – “Man’s Best Friend” | Metal Magazine
What do we expect from women in pop culture when they dare to be sexy, provocative, and the main character of their own stories? Do we celebrate their autonomy, or judge them through a double standard still tied to outdated, misogynistic views? Sabrina Carpenter’s seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend, steps right into that cultural battleground and dances through it with a smirk.
Mechatok expone la profundidad de la electrónica pop con sublimes habilidades en nuestro album review de "Wide Awake"
¡No te pierdas de nada! 👽 Un resumen de historias para leer, mirar y escuchar cada semana. 0% Spam. GDPR. No quiero, gracias Es inválido 💣 Mental Health ¡Espera un poco! Read and listen Ayy, close that door, we blowin' smoke Share Twitter Facebook Copy link It’s like you don’t exist (es casi como no existieses) son las primeras palabras que escuchamos en Wide Awake, el debut de Emir Timur Tokdemir, conocido como Mechatok.
Ethel Cain desdibuja su pasado con un emotivo artefacto antiamericanista en nuestro album review de "Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You"
Entre la bruma del slowcore sureño, la confesión íntima y un ejercicio minucioso de world-building emocional se encuentra Ethel Cain. El proyecto de Hayden Anhedönia, nacida en 1998 en Tallahassee y criada en el seno del bautismo del sur norteamericano, ha convertido lo personal y lo ficticio en un único mapa donde la geografía de la América profunda es tan real como los fantasmas que la habitan.
Justin Bieber intenta recuperar el control de su narrativa con un sonido impecable en nuestro album review de “SWAG”
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Lorde vuelve a ser poesía de la juventud, con nuevos aprendizajes y tensiones en nuestro álbum review de "VIRGIN"
La música pop femenina de la última década podría caracterizarse, entre otras cosas, por haber reflejado todas esas cuestiones que trata la cuarta ola del feminismo como parte de las vivencias de las artistas que más hemos escuchado. Si pensamos en el audiovisual es inevitable recaer en Lena Dunham; en la literatura Sally Rooney, en el ámbito político Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, o Miranda July en el arte multidisciplinar.
Frost Children | Metal Magazine
And, as usual, it is the defiant culture that unfolds these ideas that will speak of this moment in the future. Frost Children are about to unveil their third album, Sister, due out in early September. After an explosive introduction with the lead single Control, the band has just released the fantastic second follow-up, Falling. Pure electronic sound with anthemic choruses and a clear statement: hedonism as a way to survive.
Marina – “Princess of Power” | Metal Magazine
Princess of Power, released in early June, is Marina Diamandis’ first album on her own label, Queenie Records, a bold step towards creative independence. Co-written and co-produced with CJ Baran, the record embraces themes of love, empowerment, sexuality, ageing, resilience, and self-reinvention.
Orgulloses... ¿de qué?
Opinión | Tribuna Debemos resistirnos a convertir lo LGTBIQ+ en un sistema productivista; para empezar por respeto a las luchas de todas las que abrieron las puertas Son cada vez más los periodistas, activistas y personalidades influyentes las que señalan lo que está ocurriendo con la fiesta del Orgullo LGTBIQA+ a lo largo de nuestra geografía nacional.
Con "I quit", HAIM abordan las relaciones sentimentales con éxito en nuestro album review
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Addison Rae es un espejismo brillante cuyo talento se intuye cuestionable en nuestro album review de "Addison"
¡No te pierdas de nada! 👽 Un resumen de historias para leer, mirar y escuchar cada semana. 0% Spam. GDPR. No quiero, gracias Es inválido 💣 Mental Health ¡Espera un poco! Read and listen Ayy, close that door, we blowin' smoke Share Twitter Facebook Copy link En A dos metros bajo tierra, la serie de tv creada por Alan Ball, la hija pequeña de la familia y estudiante de arte, Claire, se molesta cuando ante algunas dudas sobre tu futuro su tía Sarah le espeta: “A lo mejor no eres artista”.
Model/Actriz reconstruyen su historia queer con potentes sonidos en nuestro album review de "Pirouette"
¡No te pierdas de nada! 👽 Un resumen de historias para leer, mirar y escuchar cada semana. 0% Spam. GDPR. No quiero, gracias Es inválido 💣 Mental Health ¡Espera un poco! Read and listen Ayy, close that door, we blowin' smoke Share Twitter Facebook Copy link En un punto entre el post-punk visceral y ruido del baile se encuentran Model/Actriz, la banda formada en 2016 en Boston (Massachusetts), y residentes en Brooklyn.
Model/Actriz reconstruyen su historia queer con potentes sonidos en nuestro album review de "Pirouette"
¡No te pierdas de nada! 👽 Un resumen de historias para leer, mirar y escuchar cada semana. 0% Spam. GDPR. No quiero, gracias Es inválido 💣 Mental Health ¡Espera un poco! Read and listen Ayy, close that door, we blowin' smoke Share Twitter Facebook Copy link En un punto entre el post-punk visceral y ruido del baile se encuentran Model/Actriz, la banda formada en 2016 en Boston (Massachusetts), y residentes en Brooklyn.
Q&A con Cole Haden, de Model/Actriz: “Quiero ser un ejemplo para las personas queer en la escena noise y punk/rock”
En el corazón de Brooklyn, Model/Actriz ha emergido en los últimos años como una fuerza indómita que desafía las fronteras del post-punk y el noise rock, esculpiendo una identidad donde la vulnerabilidad se abraza con el desenfreno.
Q&A con Cole Haden, de Model/Actriz: “Quiero ser un ejemplo para las personas queer en la escena noise y punk/rock”
¡No te pierdas de nada! 👽 Un resumen de historias para leer, mirar y escuchar cada semana. 0% Spam. GDPR. No quiero, gracias Es inválido 💣 Mental Health ¡Espera un poco! Read and listen Ayy, close that door, we blowin' smoke Share Twitter Facebook Copy link En el corazón de Brooklyn, Model/Actriz ha emergido en los últimos años como una fuerza indómita que desafía las fronteras del post-punk y el noise rock, esculpiendo una identidad donde la vulnerabilidad se abraza con el desenfreno.
Lady Gaga se consagra como una de las mayores estrellas del pop con "Mayhem" y su particular caos en nuestro album review
La categoría es: baila o muere. Un mensaje, un hit, un desafío y una fecha: el 7 de marzo como deadline para tomar una decisión. Así funciona la teatralidad de una de las figuras más importantes del mundo de la música pop actual: Lady Gaga. Una artista que no necesita presentación.
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