Sherelle: With a Vengeance review – UK dance debut is dizzyingly doof-doof-doof
The Londoner has alighted on a sophisticated, high-tempo hybrid of footwork and jungle – and seems to suggest a better way of living
DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us review – party-starting nostalgist is as playful as ever
Appealingly rough around the edges, the Hamburg DJ’s fourth album voyages from a Damon Albarn amapiano track to harsh 90s drum’n’bass
‘Chasing a high through rave music got dark’: Aya on hexes, Huddersfield and her hardcore horror electronics
A revelation at Pontins fuelled the producer to avant garde acclaim. But with ‘sublime’ sounds came struggles with substances. Her intense new album peels back the plaster
The rapturous return of FKA twigs: ‘I grew up feeling my body could do anything’
From school to stardom, the singer-performer has always felt like an outsider. She discusses social media censorship, sexuality, crying on stage – and her magical childhood
FKA twigs review – an eye-popping extravaganza of dancing and demons
The ever out-there British artist tours her latest album, Eusexua, with a show whose mix of club vibe, winged beast props and prime back catalogue delights and confounds
A hike, a swim, then a full-on rave: is this Britain’s most remote club night?
Ullapool is a tiny Scottish fishing village in the north-west Highlands ringed by beautiful mountains. And when the tourists move out, the DJs move in. We meet the team making Baile/Baile boom boom
One to watch: Oklou
The French producer-performer crafts club bangers with classical flourishes, while channeling her rural upbringing
Daveed Diggs’ sci-fi rap trio Clipping: ‘We are at war all the time. It’s one of the great tricks of capitalism’
Diggs’ harrowing music is a world away from his Hollywood films and a Tony-winning run in Hamilton. But his band’s world-building – setting resource wars in imagined cyberpunk clubs – is no less dramatic
‘If all I cared about was a career, I’d make listenable music’: Joost Klein on Eurovision, scandal and having the last laugh
The wild child ‘gabber pop’ rapper was booted off last year’s song contest. But his song Europapa eclipsed the winner’s – and he’s about to tour the world in his gigantic shoulder pads
Womadelaide 2025: Róisín Murphy, Khruangbin and others lead a blissful, sweltering weekend
Despite the heat, this year’s festival was full of magical moments and big sounds, with musicians making fascinating genre connections
Bdrmm: Microtonic review – Hull shoegazers nod towards the dancefloor
The quartet’s increasingly electronica-based textures convey a sense of tension and unease on their third album
‘It makes you feel like the hero of your own quest’: the dark, delightful magic of the dungeon synth scene
Amid dinosaurs, swords and leather armour, we visit the UK’s first festival for dungeon synth – a fast-growing black metal spinoff dedicated to fantasy and escape
Fatboy Slim: ‘I was in the same class as Keir Starmer – he’s one up on me now’
The electronic producer and DJ Norman Cook talks about learning the violin with Keir Starmer, his love for his label maker and crossing swords with Moby
You wanted a hit? LCD Soundsystem’s 20 best songs – ranked!
With Daft Punk Is Playing at My House turning 20 and a new album being worked on, we select the dance-rock musos’ finest tracks
Terror Danjah was the gregarious heart of the grime scene – and its greatest producer
The producer, who has died following a period of ill health, made thrillingly imaginative beats, but just as impressive was his ability to draw together the British bass scene