Monthly mix roundup: dark garage, acid punk and thunderous Afrodance
Chal Ravens’ column collects the best DJ mixes and sets that have dropped in recent weeks.
Chal Ravens’ column collects the best DJ mixes and sets that have dropped in recent weeks.
She’s best mates with Mowalola, pens sharp sex-positive lyrics about gender equality and has rapped alongside Skepta and Unknown T.
The musical mastermind behind 2019’s Cuz I Love You hints at a new album in collaboration with the super producer and squashes that bizarre rumour, all in a day’s work.
Fans are calling for a new version of the Levitating remix without the controversial rapper.
In the lead up to his upcoming LP, PUNK, the rapper debuts a new rock-influenced aesthetic and sound in his Tiny Desk concert.
Every month, Wale Oloworekende covers the continent's most exciting releases and music news stories for THE FACE.
It comes following months of back and forth and just weeks after an explosive firsthand testimony, during which Spears spoke of the "embarrassing and humiliating" arrangement put in place in 2008.
The NYC rapper has joined reggaeton legend Daddy Yankee on a remix of Eldio Carrion and Jay Balvin’s drill-leaning track, TaTa.
Featuring Kamo Mphela’s hip-shaking amapiano, Dave’s heavyweight UK rap possee cut and Lorde’s soothing stoner ballad.
It appears the rapper has temporarily taken over the 71,000 capacity stadium to put the finishing touches on his 10th studio album, DONDA.
To mark his 28th birthday, the star will stand wax-shoulder to wax-shoulder with Adele, Ariana Grande and, um, Napoleon Bonaparte. Just another one to add to the growing CV, eh?
His 10th studio album, currently titled after his late mother, Donda, is rumoured to still be in the process of completion. But that didn’t stop patrons flooding into Atlanta’s Mercedes Benz Stadium last night.
Yorkshire’s brass, beats and grooves polymath brings us 11 tracks for a long (sensibly) hot summer, blending Thundercat, Roy Ayers and Madlib.
The rapper is set to release his tenth studio album, Donda, tomorrow – and he’s enlisted America’s fastest woman for the No Child Left Behind video.
THE FACE joins the surreal musician in London as he kicks off his campaign ahead of his genre-bending latest track, Mid.
Featuring Central Cee's raunchy drill anthem, Syd's slick new single and Normani's steamy collab with Cardi B.
Bangers. Loads and loads of absolute bangers.
Featuring ericdoa and glaive’s defiant hyperpop, Billie Eilish’s shadowy new single and Dave’s understated comeback track.
November 1996: The Spice Girls. You may very well laugh when they say they’re on a mission to empower the women of the world, but more than a million people in Britain appear to believe them. Just who exactly do they think they are?
The Zimbabwe-born singer talks South African party culture, Nigerian amapiano and collaborating with the best producers in the scene.
Put your horns up, bang your head, whip your hair. The 20-year-old pop-punk hero has arrived.
The hotly-tipped animator talks rap fandom, weird aesthetics and the Christmas collab with DMX that could have been.
The London artist has teamed up with Vegyn for her debut project, SHILOH: Lost for Words.
Featuring filthy club rap from Shygirl and slowthai, Bella Shmurda’s feel-good Afrobeats and Brent Fayiaz’s irresistible R&B.