In Photos: WOS Festival 2025

The Spanish festival returned to Santiago de Compostela this September with a programme centred on immersive audiovisual installations, club nights, and cutting-edge electronic music.

Pay it Forward: Joanne Robertson on Jutta Koether

Blackpool-born creator of uncanny sonic (and visual) worlds, Joanne Robertson, explains the influence of Germany’s multidisciplinary abstract artist Jutta Koether.

Atlanta punks Upchuck are pushing into new territory

​​As they gear up to release their first album on the UK label Domino, Upchuck are tearing through Europe with a righteous onslaught of fury and mischief. It’s time to buckle up.

In Photos: All Points East 2025

The festival’s RAYE-headlined day saw performances from JADE, Tyla, and a last-minute set from FKA twigs.

Listen to Rainy Miller‘s soundtrack for moments of anemoia

Welcome back to Selections, a series of artist-curated playlists from those in the know.

In Photos: Big Smoke Festival 2025

Skepta’s Big Smoke Festival returned to Crystal Palace Bowl last month for a two-day takeover, as part of this year’s South Facing Festival series.

Laura Misch on the classic synth at the heart of her sound

As the iconic synth gets a fresh lick of paint from designer Swifty, songwriter-producer Laura Misch describes her enduring love for Novation’s Bass Station II.

PARADE‘s strange sonic world explores the unsteady relationship between the real and imaginary

With their disorienting debut mixtape ‘Lightning Hit the Trees’, London-based collective PARADE harness the freewheeling energy of their longstanding friendships and eclectic tastes, gliding between free jazz, noise-rap, trip-hop, and more.

Listen to a playlist for transitional times, selected by Ava Rasti

Welcome back to Selections, a series of artist-curated playlists from those in the know.