For Issue 148, Indiana footwork experimentalist Jlin reflects on the continual cycle of self-affirmation that pushes her through creative roadblocks. This feature is part of The Click series
We speak to five stylists about the heritage that inspires their work across music and fashion – and how none of it could happen without Black culture
‘Kish Kash’ represents the final glorious flourish of a duo who took the most distinctive sound in dance music from a Brixton basement club all the way to the Pyramid Stage
The New Yorker connects with E.R. Pulgar to talk songwriting approach, finding his style and his next moves for Issue 148’s Rising feature
Josh Caffé nearly made an angry album about the music industry. Instead, his long-awaited debut throws R&B, acid house and spoken word onto the dancefloor – and into the bedroom
London rapper Strandz pours romance and grit into a nostalgic, 2000s hip-hop sound for a new generation – but he’s always pushing forward. He chats with Rahel Aklilu for the October issue
Starting off as a grime DJ in her teens, Shy One has since become a luminary in UK nightlife. Gearing up for a second album, she’s never sounded more sure of herself. Read the October issue cover story
Her untouchable knack for exploring psychodramas of the self remains, but on this sweeping, Nashville-influenced, album Mitski finds hope in the promise of heartbreak
