Ikonika: Sad review – vocal-led new direction is a hit for the Hyperdub veteran
(Hyperdub)The dancefloor producer weaves seductive and steely lyrics with their trademark production in a convincing embrace of pop
Peaches: ‘We need lube to smooth out the friction of the world’
The Canadian electroclash icon on No Lube So Rude, her first album in a decade, the state of global politics, the ‘punk energy’ of the older generation and her love of ping-pong
Debit: Desaceleradas review – Afro-Latin club sounds slowed to a seductive crawl
The producer’s second album is a granular dissection of cumbia rebajada, forcing the listener to focus on the strangeness of every moment in her ambient soundworld
Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer review – uncanny ambient music for an agitated era
Made using a cache of Y2K sample CDs that Daniel Lopatin salvaged from the internet’s fringes, the kaleidoscopic result speaks to contemporary information overload
Amyl and the Sniffers dominate 2025 Arias with four wins: ‘Probably won’t have to work at IGA ever again’
Rock band take home album of the year while electronic breakthrough Ninajirachi wins best solo artist from a leading eight nominations
Ninajirachi started making music because of YouTube. Now she’s up for eight Aria awards
The 26-year-old’s debut album I Love My Computer has already netted her some of Australia’s most prestigious prizes – and it’s all about the delight and depravity of growing up on the internet
Post your questions for Peaches
As she prepares to release No Lube So Rude, her first album in a decade, the Canadian dance-punk icon will answer your questions
Portishead’s Geoff Barrow: ‘I can’t think of any worse music to make love to than ours’
As he moves into film production with the thriller Game, the musician – also known for Beak> – answers your questions on Myspace rappers, sex playlists and whether Portishead will ever make new music
‘Everybody comes from a place of mundanity’: northern gothic, the strange music scene rooted in small-town Yorkshire and Lancashire
Lurking at the fringes of electronic music, artists such as Richie Culver, Rainy Miller and Iceboy Violet are confronting the alienation and deprivation of the UK’s north
‘Music is my remedy’: how DJing is helping Ukraine’s war veterans with their recovery
At the Superhumans centre in Ukraine, the EnterDJ music therapy programme teaches war-wounded soldiers how to mix, rehabilitating them with dance music and providing purpose and opportunities to perform
A sprawling global family: The Long Wave turns one
As we celebrate our first anniversary, we reflect on the stories that connect us across the diaspora
Is London’s next superclub this warehouse by a sewage works in Barking?
The 4,000-capacity Eutopia is independently owned and run by clubland veterans – and despite being on the city’s eastern fringe, clubbers say they’re prepared to trek
Dave Ball obituary
One half of the synth-pop duo Soft Cell best known for its No 1 single Tainted Love
Mohinder Kaur Bhamra: Punjabi Disco review – rediscovery of an 80s trailblazer
Punjabi folk vocals backed by hammering electronic percussion, disco basslines and fizzing synth melody: a key predecessor to the Asian dance music explosion
Dave Ball was not some bloke in the background of Soft Cell – he drove their startling, subversive sound
Far more than a mute foil to Marc Almond, Ball brought his love of northern soul and strange electronics to bear on some of Britain’s most uncompromising pop