Rewire Festival 2024 through six key performances

Ratking’s incendiary So It Goes seared a path for unrelenting experimentation

Ratking’s incendiary – and only – album not only captured the sound of a fertile rap scene in flux, but seared a path for unrelenting experimentation

In Photos: Sónar Lisboa 2024

Take a look back at this year’s Sónar Lisboa – which took place from 22-24 March – with our photo gallery featuring Nia Archives, Grove, Oneohtrix Point Never and more

Flowdan: From this point onwards

Flowdan is a giant in the U.K. underground. As part of Roll Deep, he steered the influential grime crew to murkier places. Alongside The Bug, he pushed dub and dancehall to its limits with his uncompromising flows. In February, he became the first ever British MC to win a Grammy for Rumble – the Skrillex-featuring hit that shook dancefloors as much as it did TikTok. Where does the east Londoner go from here?

Jenny Hval and Gazelle Twin on artistic identity and playing with performance conventions

Ahead of playing the forthcoming edition of Rewire Festival, the two experimental musicians discuss the conventions of performance, how they approach each of their projects and the shared connections in their work

This forgotten mid-00s MTV series was the original PS2 meme

From Stacy’s Mom in The Sims 2 to BloodRayne singing Evanescence, MTV2’s Video Mods imagined…

Desire Paths: Ganavya

Ganavya’s spiritual compositions have taken her from film scores and star collaborations to the stage of Sault’s headline-making live show. With new album ‘Like the Sky, I’ve Been Too Quiet’, the Tamil artist is discovering that it’s about the journey, not the destination

11 Artists and Creatives on the Enduring Influence of Madvillainy

In March 2004, Madlib and MF DOOM released Madvillainy – the only record under their…

Cue Points: Desirée Falessi

Ahead of playing Sunny Side Festival, the Strain Records label boss talks us through how she approaches her sets, telling a story through her selections and keeping the vibes sexy and dramatic throughout