In Photos: Ortigia Music 2025

Sicily’s Ortigia Music Festival turned the island into a dreamlike soundscape in early August, with a line-up including Modeselektor, Max Cooper, and Bambounou.

Tracey make anxious anthems for the post-afters bus ride

The anonymous London collective’s genre mashing sound is a vehicle for their observations on sex, shame and doormats.

In Photos: HARD Summer 2025

HARD Summer returned to LA’s Hollywood Park with an A-list roster for its 17th edition, with Joy Orbison, Four Tet, and Fcukers on the bill.

Temporary Pleasure have turned the carpark rave into art

The architecture and rave collective bring boy racer culture and Y2K era soundsystems to the Barbican’s ‘Feel The Sound’ exhibition with a new project, ‘Joyride’. Founder John Leo Gillen talks about the idea behind it: cars and clubbing.

Noname: Speaking Truth

Since releasing ‘Sundial’ in 2023, Noname has poured her energy into two projects that reflect the spirit of her political views: Noname Book Club and Radical Hood Library. With these outlets for her values, her music is swapping theory for something more human.

How jazz-punk quartet Maruja prevailed in spite of their surroundings

On their debut album, ‘Pain to Power’, Manchester-based band Maruja channels political rage into a stirring call for sincerity, solidarity and collective hope.

Annahstasia is ready to grow into the artist she was always meant to be

After spending her twenties travelling the world and having her career dictated by others, Nigerian-American singer-songwriter Annahstasia is finding her truest form as an artist on her new album, ‘Tether’ – in the city she has always called home.

Pavements director Alex Ross Perry on portraying the band’s chaos and contradictions

With its blurring of documentary, fiction and musical film genres, ‘Pavements’ is a conceptual counter to bland rock docs and legacy biopics – and nearly as contradictory as the band it celebrates.

In Photos: Junction 2

Junction 2 returned to London’s Boston Manor Park for its ninth edition last weekend, with Helena Hauff, Midland and Mount Kimbie on the bill.