
Music


Rated by The Face: a weekly playlist
Featuring rising Nigerian artist Tems, Atlanta alt-country strummer Faye Webster and the Sie7etr3 crew’s co-leader Chucky73.

Dutchavelli: bringing the real back to UK rap
Stints in prison almost derailed his career. Now the rising star is getting a second chance.

Avalon Emerson’s DJ-Kicks looks at the club scene in the rearview mirror
This mix commemorates Emerson’s techno career while welcoming a new, more pop-leaning phase.

Jim‑E Stack’s Face Mix is a deep dive into his YouTube history
The LA-based producer has collaborated on tunes with the likes of Charli XCX, Haim and Bon Iver, seamlessly moving between funk, electronica and hip-hop.

Avalon Emerson: now the party’s over
Volume 4 Issue 4: Emerson moved from San Francisco to Berlin in the 2010s, quickly becoming one of most adventurous talents on the European techno circuit. Now she’s embracing her inner pop kid in LA – and wondering if clubbing as we know it will ever return.

Rated by The Face: a weekly playlist
Pa Salieu’s back with a banger, Davido has a message for the haters and Avalon Emerson releases a synth-pop cover that will catch you by surprise.

Travis Scott: dawn of a new rage
Volume 4 Issue 004: Rapper. Father. Superstar. Performer. Punk. Gamer. Collaborator. Stoner. Record-breaker. Believer. Protester. Leader... Dog-owner? Just who is Travis Scott?

100% Jimi Somewhere: the soundtrack-ready Norwegian singer
In the run up to his debut LP, the 22-year-old musician is taking a closer look at his upbringing (with the help of Kacy Hill) on a new track, Jesus.

Life’s hectic. Take a breather with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s Face Mix
The California-based artist specialises in nourishing synth music inspired by watching birds fly in the mornings and the wind that blows treetops.

Rated by The Face: a weekly playlist
Featuring a stomping sex tune from Shygirl, a serotonin-boosting track from SZA and Ty Dolla $ign and a remix of Sech's Relación.

“My eyes and ears are waiting”: Headie One reveals his new record label
The UK rap star talks us through the silky neosoul, dancehall-inspired drill and the OFB crew members on the One Records roster.
NiNE8 are the DIY collective playing by their own rules
The London-based artists on their just released, genre-defying second mixtape, NOSMOKEVOL2.

Sevdaliza is all fired up
The Iranian-Dutch musician on self-love, Shabrang and finding her true self.

100% David Hugo: the Cali native making feel-good pop from his parent’s basement
The 19-year-old singer is spinning pop gold and has the Billboard charts in his crosshairs – he just needs to get his own apartment.

Kelly Lee Owens’ Inner Song is good for the soul
How lockdown, mountains, therapy and bass shaped the Welsh artist’s new techno-pop album.

Club Future Nostalgia: how Dua brought the dancefloor home
How do you top the pop album of 2020? By releasing an 18-track all-star remix collab only five months later. Dua Lipa, executive producer The Blessed Madonna and some of those special guests lift the lid and drop the needle on the party set we all need right now.

100% Flo Milli: Alabama’s new rap royal
Follow Cardi B’s lead: listen to Milli’s Ho, Why Is You Here? mixtape and “turn that shit up!”

Mulatto: “Nobody can out work me”
With a gold record for her monstrously streamed track Bitch from Da Souf, a cameo in the biggest music video of the year and co-signs aplenty, the 21-year-old rapper is poised for big things.

100% Elheist: as goody as it gets
The 26-year-old south Londoner is making empowering tunes for all. Feel the self-love.

Madison Beer: “I’m already prepared for people to say that I’m lying”
The singer-songwriter weathered a break-up, a handful of controversies and a revelatory diagnosis – and it’s all there on her years-in-the-making debut album.

IDLES x Kenny Beats: “We needed to add some punch”
For their upcoming third album, the punk band have collaborated with one of the hottest producers in hip-hop. We joint-Zoomed frontman Joe Talbot in Cardiff and Los Angeles-based Kenny Beats to discuss their unlikely collaboration – and to share with The Face mixtapes they made specially for each other. Aw, cute.

Fireboy DML is Nigeria’s elusive loverman
The artist’s new album Apollo puts a fresh spin on the Afrobeats sound and takes on matters of the heart.

Listen to an exclusive playlist from Trent Alexander-Arnold
He shoots, he scores, he listens to J Hus. England and Liverpool FC star Trent Alexander-Arnold shares the songs that power him.