MC Yallah is doing things her way

For two decades, MC Yallah has set the bar for Ugandan hip-hop. With her latest album, the Kampala-based rapper and Nyege Nyege mainstay is raising it again

Special Interest: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Uncompromising New Orleans punks Special Interest are laying waste to complacency. We meet them for Issue 135

beabadoobee

Sun’s Signature

Syd

Soul Glo

Earl Sweatshirt

Boy Harsher: Altered States

Massachusetts-based duo Boy Harsher built a fervent cult following with their gripping spin on darkwave. Now, they’re returning to the discipline that started it all: horror cinema

FKA twigs

Lotic

Dax Pierson: Living rhythms

An accident in 2005 spurred Oakland producer Dax Pierson to reassess his relationship with music. The culmination is an exhilarating work of art

Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis

The universal language of Beverly Glenn-Copeland

It may have taken five decades for the singular artist to be discovered, but his sublime transmissions speak to the times we’re living in

Ace Tee is pushing the German rap scene in a new direction

The Ghanaian rapper talks channelling rage, favourite anime shows and expressing Blackness for Issue 115’s Aesthetic feature

IDLES

John Glacier creates introspective music on her own terms

We talk style and sound with the enigmatic artist for Issue 114

Alanis Morissette

Westerman

Perfume Genius

Aesthetic: Bbymutha

We meet Chattanooga, Tennessee’s outrageous, sex-positive superstar Bbymutha for this month’s Aesthetic

Zebra Katz

Kaytranada

LSDXOXO is expanding his sound towards new frontiers

Rashaad Glasgow talks his upcoming LP, New York’s club scene, and finding his sound within Tumblr’s golden era

Roskilde Festival 2019: Community reigns supreme at Denmark’s answer to Glastonbury

Peggy Gou

Hatchie

Various artists

Steve Lacy

Lizzo

Kiki Hitomi: Dramatic dub

Ahead of her Unfold performance in May, we meet with the producer to talk influences, cultural exchange and Japanese TV