Music

Featuring Minneapolis-native Dua Saleh, poet and rapper Noname and Atlanta heavyweight Lil Baby.

Black alternative people have always existed, but faced alienation in the scenes they inhabited, or ridicule within their own community. Now, propelled in part by poster girls like Rico Nasty and Doja Cat, things are changing, writes Yomi Adegoke.

Benji B and Jude Afriyie break down the legendary club night turned weekly INSIDE / OUT live stream ahead of tonight’s fundraiser. Proceeds will be donated to charity Inquest and social enterprise The Black Curriculum.

This week, rappers Dutchavelli, Digga D and Lavida Loca described being threatened with recall for endorsing the movement. While authorities deny the claim, it raises questions about how confident people on probation feel about speaking out.

Ahead of their new album Mordechai, the trio’s singer/bassist Laura Lee Ochoa sets the tone with warm grooves and sunny psychedelia.

The Creative Director of Celine returns with his second Portrait of a Performer series, starring young and passionate musicians from across England.

Featuring posthumous Pop Smoke, Jorja Smith on jazz and a Black Lives Matter anthem from Lil Baby.

With new album The Prettiest Curse, the effervescent Madrid band gift us a much-needed indie-rock holiday. They had no choice: “We’re Spaniards – we love the summer and we love the heat.”

To celebrate Marlian Day, the rebellious hitmaker is broadcasting a gig from the National Theatre in Lagos.

The affecting ballads of Stefani Germanotta’s Joanne era are long gone: Party Gaga is back and everyone’s invited to her robo-wonderland.

The elusive Scottish production genius talks us through five key tracks from her catalogue, then highlights five all-time sonic classics. Bitch, she’s Madonna and, dude, they’re Depeche Mode...

The 1975 collaborator and prolific Dirty Hit artist beams in with lockdown love on a new single with beabadoobee and Jay Som.

Shanghai's 44KW nightclub recently reopened, welcoming the city’s fashion-conscious ravers onto disinfected dancefloors while sending a beacon of hope to the global clubbing community.

Despite a meteoric entry onto the scene, the fresh-faced talent’s two new tunes prove he's in it for the long haul.

Cathartic dance pop from Gaga and Grande, loved-up ambience from Arca and dubby road rap from Pa Salieu.

She writes her name in capitals and makes anxiety-addressing music with Australian singers. She's GRACEY and she's mega (as demonstrated by her soon to be chart-bothering new single Empty Love).

The LA-based singer who cut her teeth writing songs for Beyonce, Dua Lipa and Mary J. Blige unpacks her new semi-autobiographical Wasted Youth EP, for which the title track’s music video premieres on The Face today.

Lagos party rap, quarantine pop and eccentric soul.

The New York duo’s ambient blends take you to another place.

With her forthcoming LP Couldn't Wait To Tell You set to drop this summer, the Texan-raised producer-songwriter teases two left-field, experimental tracks.

The Mercury-winning band's guitarist spent his down time post-tour volunteering at a north London food bank. Now he’s releasing an album of folk instrumentals to raise money and awareness. We speak to him, and to centre manager Abi Odujoko, about the scourge of food poverty – and how it’s immeasurably worse now.