Music
Intimate photos of The 1975 rehearsing ‘At Their Very Best’
Award-winning designer Tobias Rylander takes us behind the scenes of the band's most ambitious tour to date.
Written by: Emma Garland
Inside Uzbekistan's burgeoning electronic music scene
In a country with an extensive history of censorship, a new generation of artists are building community and fighting for the freedom of expression.
Written by: Diyora Shadijanova
London's flourishing jazz scene is just getting started
As the city’s unconventional young community advances into the mainstream, we caught up with some of the artists pushing things to the next level.
Written by: Fred Garratt-Stanley
The enduring legacy of Chumbawamba, pop's greatest anarchists
With the release of a new documentary about the band, founding member Dunstan Bruce tells us about their unlikely fame, breaking the curse of the one-hit-wonder, and remaining politically active while growing older.
Written by: Jak Hutchcraft
A decade of the UK's hardcore punk scene – In photos
Alongside the widely celebrated renaissance of hardcore in the US, UK bands have been thriving under the radar. Photographer Nat Wood has been there to capture it all.
Written by: Jack Ramage
Inside El Chopo: Mexico City's heavy metal heaven
Photographer Freddie Miller captures the long-running flea market where alternative subcultures go to thrive.
Written by: Freddie Miller
Punk bands with their punk vans
Photographer Chris Bethell headed to Manchester Punk Festival over Easter weekend to capture bands with their temporary homes on wheels.
Written by: Emma Garland
Dave Okumu transforms the personal into a conversation
After spending almost 20 years in the music industry working with everyone from Amy Winehouse to Grace Jones, the veteran artist is finally embracing the spotlight to release his most intimate album – with a collaborative twist.
Written by: Ammar Kalia
A revolutionary history of the women written out of punk
Jen B. Larson's 'Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA' is a captivating compendium of nearly 100 all-female or female-fronted bands from 1975–1983, immortalising the lives and legacies of those often written out of history.
Written by: Miss Rosen
For Desire Marea, eroticism is a life force
On the romance of being — After being called to train as a traditional Nguni healer, the South African artist opened up a conversation between the spiritual, the ancestral and the erotic that led to the creation of an album like no other.
Written by: Niloufar Haidari