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.

The new generation of artists shaping Egypt’s electronic underground

Juan Valero, a sound researcher, Radio alHara host and artist better known as Sono Mayrit, and Diego Hernández, a DJ and head of Berlin’s Eck Echo platform, explore the innovative sounds defining Egypt’s contemporary music scene.

“The most ‘real’ we’ve ever sounded”: Stephen O’Malley on sunn O)))’s return

The masters of vibrational low-end intensity, sunn O))), are back with their first album of new material since 2019. Here, Stephen O’Malley reflects on the enduring power of durational music and the eternal desire for transcendence.

bed are here to break the system

With their combative live performances, doom-laden rave rock and manifesto ripped from a cyberpunk novel, bed started out with one aim: to upend the music scene in their native Tokyo. Now, they are moving into phase two – taking their mission worldwide.

My New Band Believe’s debut pushes against “stale and predictable” singer-songwriter music

Cameron Picton on starting his new project, My New Band Believe, and adapting its 20-plus-musician debut for the stage.

The sound of memory: Akinola Davies Jr, Duval Timothy and CJ Mirra on scoring My Father’s Shadow

In Akinola Davies Jr’s BAFTA-winning ‘My Father’s Shadow’, Duval Timothy and CJ Mirra’s richly layered score fills the spaces between words unspoken.

Rising: Dagmar Zuniga captures life in quiet fragments

A compulsive recorder of everyday life, the artist weaves field recordings and whispered melodies into an intimate, transportive debut.

Dream Architecture: underscores on building her third album, ‘U’

underscores’ latest album – her first since an attention-grabbing collaboration with Oklou on ‘Harvest Sky’ – transports her glitchy electro-pop to liminal, urban spaces where dreams and waking life coalesce.

Ledbyher knows the haters are watching – and she loves it

Ledbyher’s breakout year captures the UK Ug scene’s hot streak, propelled by a sound that bounces between UK jerk, grunge and neo-soul.

Jawnino: Freedom of Movement

Wandsworth-raised rapper and producer Jawnino has already broken free of the suffocating constraints of faith and the anxiety of estate life – now he’s cutting loose of musical boundaries to become a pathfinder for UK Ug.

Prostitute are catalysing anger into action: “Everything’s in free fall, so let’s jump”

Prostitute’s 2024 debut was a bracing response to a nation in freefall. As they prepare to re-release the album, the band are poised to channel their energy into something more constructive: action.

Rising: TaliaBle is bringing punk-rap chaos to the club

Channelling a feral theatricality and a vividly handmade aesthetic, the world of Talia Beale, better known as TaliaBle, is one where punk, queer futurism and north London grit coexist in a delirious tangle.

Rip it Up: The disparate group of artists upending convention in Manchester

Bound by a shared ethos and fed up with the predictable, Another Country $$$$, Crimewave, BUFFEE, Mogan and SILVERWINGKILLER are building a DIY communal culture driven by shared purpose and friendship.

Daniel Blumberg: Louder Than Words

The much sought-after composer, musician and visual artist, now back in the limelight with his score for ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’, has only ever pursued the freedom to explore, experiment and follow his innate curiosity.