Rising: Coffintexts is embracing her dance music era

Get to know Coffintexts, the Miami-based DJ and producer making peak-time percussive heaters for labels like Clasico. For Issue 145’s Rising feature, the artist talks creative recalibration, early nightlife experiences and being in her club era

Night Slugs co-founder Bok Bok on learning to DJ

In their own words, the DJ, producer and co-founder of influential club label Night Slugs recounts the unforgettable moment when the needle dropped

Bambii is moving free

Get acquainted with Bambii, the Toronto DJ, producer and scene figurehead who wants to banish club music’s gatekeepers, one anthem at a time

Shifting currents with Pozi

After swapping political punk for a richly detailed, maximalist sound, south London eccentrics Pozi are plunging into the unexpected

Bendik Giske is embracing flow states

An intimate physicality rests at the heart of Norwegian saxophonist Bendik Giske’s compositions. A new self-titled album takes this vulnerability to new extremes

Anohni and the Johnsons: My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross review

Anohni and the Johnsons’ first album in 13 years is an urgent, gorgeously arranged meditation on the violence endured by society’s misfits. It also makes one thing abundantly clear: hope is not gone yet

Jim Legxacy is going places

Not content with releasing one of the year’s most exciting tapes, rapper-producer Jim Legxacy has co-produced the UK’s song of the summer. This is the story of an artist from Lewisham, and how he came to create a sound that’s as vibrant and complex as his home