Sam Davies

More than a quarter-century since his last album, the hip-hop pioneer is back to talk about working with Idris Elba, where he gets his stories from, and why he’s been away for so long.

​Have you ever bought your girlfriend a moving-in gift—nothing crazy, just a fish tank with three green tetras and one scarlet badis—only for your beloved to peer into the water one day and recoil at the sight of a snail? Aesop Rock has. He raps about it on “Snail Zero,” one of many highlights on his tenth solo studio album Black Hole Superette. Of course, he may have made the story up; but he conveys the tale in such detail that you have to assume it’s from personal experience...

Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory finds common ground between Ella Fitzgerald and Charli xcx – and its free-thinking alumni are thriving. We go on a tour to see what’s in the water there (aside from shipwrecks)

Djrum first rose to prominence during London’s post-dubstep days, making music people classified as techno, dub techno, jungle, ambient, and electronic jazz. Clubland’s subgenere multiverse has long since melted away, but even as far back as 2013, writers were describing Djrum’s music as “genre-trashing.” And the stuff he’s making now references all of the above sounds and more—often in a single track.

News: History and Hollywood are coming together for ‘Wigs, Weddings, Powder and Palaces’

The world first met gyrofield because of a joke. It was 2019, and Kiana Li was a teenage music producer making beats on her computer from her bedroom in Hong Kong. She had 2,000 Soundcloud followers. “That was a good time,” she says with a smile. “I was feeling like anything could happen. I just had to make the music to see.”

Every football fan of a certain age has said it. You see a concrete five-a-side pitch, or someone playing a one-two with a wall, or any exhibition of football shamelessly prioritising style over substance and you announce to anyone who’ll listen: “Oi … this is like FIFA Street!”

Dinner with DJ Koze is delightful. He shows me to a Thai restaurant in central Hamburg, down some steps and into a curtained room bubbling with atmosphere and charm. He studies the menu as though searching for secret meanings, then orders the pho, which is what he always gets. Then he laughs at my face as two beers arrive.

"There are no good girls": a history of the horror scream queen

The anonymous producer shares an 100% production mix and texts us their thoughts on modern club music, y2k nostalgia, and why phones should be dumb again

The staunch champion of garage is one of the UK’s most talented musicians, manipulating tracks at lightning speed. In a rare interview he discusses neurodiversity, being teetotal – and the truth about his fees.

“Ricochet,” a documentary newly available on Apple TV and Amazon, tells the story of the 2015 Kate Steinle killing and trial. This is an interview with its director Chihiro Wimbush.

600-word review of Mike Skinner's mix for fabric

The London MC was set for stardom before his career was derailed by the most infamous murder in grime. His crowning glory fused dubstep and authentic lyricism in ways that still pop today.

James Massiah is a DJ and “dub poet” who has written stanzas and spoken-word verses for everyone from Massive Attack to the King of England...