9 of Dries Van Noten’s Most Memorable Show Soundtracks

For four decades, Dries Van Noten has been creating immersive sensory experiences on the runway….

Rising: Manuka Honey is reconnecting with herself

In astrology, a Saturn return signals the crossing of a major threshold and the start of a new stage of life. For many, it can be a brutal period of change – as Marissa Malik knows all too well.

Listen to Jlin’s pick me up playlist

An immediate success, Jlin’s debut album, Dark Energy, dropped in 2015 when Patton was still working as a steel mill worker. The acclaim of the album allowing her to quit her job to focus on music full-time, she’s now an artist of her own league

Festival Guide 2024

A rolling, regularly-updated directory of essential events in the UK, Europe and beyond – handpicked…

Listen to a “weighty and moody” playlist from Dis Fig

Ahead of performing at Somerset House Studios for Assembly this weekend, Dis Fig curates a hefty playlist featuring the likes of Senyawa, DUMA’s Lord Spikeheart, Lucy Liyou and a collaboration between DJ SCOTCH BONNET – aka DJ Scotch Egg – and SENSATIONAL

Deeper and Deeper: Funk Mineiro

Baile funk has become a proving ground for musical experimentation, with regional variants proliferating from the favelas it originated in to dancefloors the world over. Of these funk mineiro – a slower, darker strain from Belo Horizonte – is sending rumbles through the underground

Putting Down Roots: CCL

CCL’s mind-expanding DJ sets are defined by a deep, searching curiosity. It’s an approach that ricochets throughout their new project – an ambitious mixtape waving together the foundations of dubstep.

Adrianne Lenker has turned tenderness into an artform

Adrianne Lenker has turned tenderness into an artform. On her latest solo album, the completely analogue ‘Bright Future’, the Big Thief leader is moving through life with a heart wide open

Lao curates a guide to understanding the NAAFI sound

For today’s Selections playlist the label co-founder, DJ and producer some of his “favourite tracks to understand the NAAFI sound as part of the deconstructed and leftfield club music of the 2010s”