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Cover of Dua Lipa's album 'Radical Optimism', showing her swimming in the sea with a shark nearby

Released in May, the record is based on "the idea of going through chaos gracefully and feeling like you can weather any storm"

Dua Lipa has shared details of her third album, 'Radical Optimism'. The album is described as being inspired by "psychedelia, trip-hop, and Britpop". It will...

How The Chemical Brothers' 'Dig Your Own Hole' predicted the post-genre pop future

The Chemical Brothers' second album, 1997's 'Dig Your Own Hole', radiated ambition and adventure, and was their first to hit No.1 in the UK charts thanks to a string of landmark singles. Here, Ben Cardew explores how 'Dig Your Own Hole' altered the Chems' creative trajectory, predicted our post-genre pop future, and catapulted them to new heights

Note: this article was originally published in 2018 The Chemical Brother's second album, 'Dig Your Own Hole', was perhaps not the best electronic album of...

A fistful of fun to brighten your February

01. BUGGED OUT, VILLAGE UNDEGROUND, LONDON
FRIDAY 6TH FEBRUARY
TEN WALLS (LIVE), GARDENS OF GOD, FEW NOLDER

If there’s one DJ who truly understands the...

A slew of quality releases this year proved the compilation is still a vital format for taste-making selectors to present a snapshot of where we’re at...

10. Dimitri From Paris
‘Salsoul Mastermix’
Salsoul

One of dance music’s most popular disco connoisseurs delved deep into the back- catalogue of NYC’s legendary Salsoul...

The singer, producer & DJ talks Australia's best new talent!

Australian singer, producer and DJ, Alison Wonderland tells us the top producers from down under we should be listening to! Her debut album 'Run' is...

We've switched up our end-of-year coverage this year. Instead of ranked countdowns, we've asked 40 contributors to pick their favourite albums, tracks and compilations from...

You might expect Abra Cadabra’s debut mixtape to rely on the high-energy style of UK drill that racked up millions of views on 2020 singles...

Gorillaz’ 2001 self-titled debut laid the foundations for Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s animated outfit. With a rotating cast of collaborators and a genre-merging style...

When Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz loped onto the scene with their self-titled debut album in 2001, this virtual band looked like it might be the future...

We've switched up our end-of-year coverage this year. Instead of ranked countdowns, we've asked 40 contributors to pick their favourite albums, tracks and compilations from...

This was the year many dance music scenes, industries and communities started to claw back everything that was lost in 2020. Elusive and secretive UK...

2019 saw dancefloors embracing fast, syncopated and experimental rhythms, with jungle breaks and sounds from the Global South invigorating DJs and producers across the genre...

Dancefloor trends come and go. Familiar genre tropes, motifs and tempos reinstate themselves as dominant themes in clubs and festivals big and small, while inventive...

2019’s best compilations celebrated innovative styles and fusions from across the globe, as well as some of underground dance music’s formative sounds. Below, you'll find...

As styles and sounds establish themselves in the ever-expanding electronic and dance music landscape, there are few better crash courses than a good compilation. In...

2019 was a year in which deeply personal and boldly political music ruled the long-player format. Below, you'll find the 50 albums that defined the...

Some years stand out for the bangers they produced, for the adrenaline-shot belters that shook festivals and club floors night after night, and never felt...

EDM is taking over the world, one festival at a time

While electronic dance music has been a part of our lives for decades here in the UK, mainstream America took a little while to get...

Nine essential documentaries, focused on the classic '80s and '90s hip-hop that laid the foundation for rappers to build a world-conquering movement

Hip-hop has been with us for almost half a century. In that time it’s touched almost every aspect of society, influencing everything from fashion to...

Re-Textured, Bangface Weekender, Tuff Life... 

It's a month of change to say the least, with British summertime arriving and EU leaving drinks still possible. Some things always stay the same though—...

Trelik at FOLD, Ossia 3rd Birthday, Dusky at Motion... 

Ah. Now there's that familiar bump (or maybe violent crash) back to Earth. January rarely makes anyone jump for joy, but fear not; it's the...