Alewya: Being and Nothingness

Alewya’s debut album sees the multidisciplinary artist transform a life lived across cultures, sounds and disciplines into a singular creative world – but ‘ZERO’ is only the starting point.

UNIIQU3 is getting her flowers

Five years after her breakthrough EP Heartbeats, UNIIQU3 has seen Jersey Club – a sound she helped take global – percolate into pop music, and her name dropped in all the right places. Time, then, to re-enter the chat with a new album that strikes out for new horizons.

ear are taking the scenic route

Less a band than a collaborative art project, ear have created a shared universe for two – intentionally closed, richly esoteric and all the more compelling for it. Time to listen in.

Inside Spellbound’s sleeping concert: An interview with Nkisi

Acting as the centrepiece of Turin’s Spellbound Festival this year was a concert you are meant to sleep through, inspired by accounts of unexplained sounds heard in the desert.

Rising: IMISSMYMOM are making existential shoegaze with a side of doom

With their second album, London-based band IMISSMYMOM are holding onto the spontaneity that first brought them together.

Donato Dozzy & Batu: The Expanding Universe

Donato Dozzy and Batu may come from different generations and zones of electronic music, but their paths have been crossing, fatefully, for nearly a decade. Now, they’re playing an ongoing game of “ping-pong production” that brings together Bristol bass futurism and hypnotic minimal techno.

Swaraj: Claiming Space

As legendary late-90s and 00s club night Swaraj returns, key figures from the Asian Underground cast their mind back to a transformative moment in British club culture.

The Caretaker: Ballroom Eternal

Ahead of his performance in the Blackpool Tower Ballroom during last weekend’s The Black Lights festival, James Leyland Kirby spoke in a rare interview about the unlikely viral afterlife of his dementia-themed project, The Caretaker.

Rising: NEW YORK make music for walking around the city feeling cute

The London-based duo behind NEW YORK discuss their DIY beginnings, embracing a slower journey, and making deconstructed art pop for late-night scrolling.

Iceage: Boys keep swinging

Iceage’s latest album, ‘For Love of Grace & the Hereafter’, sees them rediscover an intensity and urgency as only they can.

kwn: Pure Feeling

After a whirlwind year following the release of her ‘worst behaviour’ remix with Kehlani, kwn is preparing to unveil her third EP, ‘and all pride aside’.

SALIMATA is making space for herself

After swapping the New York scene for the more laid-back rhythm of Marseille, rapper SALIMATA has found her stride.

Rising: Whispers make white-knuckle Thai hardcore with a metal-tinged twist

Bangkok’s Whispers might be the first band from Thailand’s hardcore underground on your radar – but they definitely don’t want to be the last.

Fcukers: Life of the Party

After doing time in guitar bands, Jackson Walker Lewis and Shanny Wise changed tack, channelling their love of electronic music and hedonism to create Fcukers: a band built for good times.

shy blossom: “It’s about people who feel things deeply”

The Florida group’s lead singer talks band dynamics, their creative process, and making music for emotional people.

iKeda is ready to spill

With a run of dates supporting PinkPantheress next month and a new EP on the way, iKeda is locking in to her pop star persona.