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Club night Yard select six French rappers who always get the function turnt up.

Frank Ocean got his first taste of the music industry as a songwriter in the latter half of the ’00s. Collaborators detail first impressions of a young Lonny Breaux, his studio ethic and eventual rise to worldwide success.

Fresh from playing at London’s much-loved Adonis party, the former professional cyclist joins the Face Mix series.

Volume 4 Issue 003: The London rapper is riding music’s global collaboration wave and fucking with gender in her own easy way.

The band’s fans can’t get enough of the dancing duo.

The Juicy rapper pays homage to Haley Sharpe in the video for her new track Say So – the 17-year-old helped the track go viral on TikTok via a dance that was copied over 16 million times.

A brand new banger from the legendary Gaga, a genre-bending track from experimental duo 100 gecs and the return of London-via-Eastbourne collective, 404 Guild.

Volume 4 Issue 003: Dobby, Fauzia, Sherelle, Jossy Mitsu, LCY and Yazzus are the London DJs tearing up dancefloors nationwide.

Proper club bangers from the Brooklyn-based DJ/producer.

The left-field, London-based rap collective returned to Eastbourne for this tender new track from subsidiary group Elison 404. Watch exclusively via The Face.

From the fervour surrounding My Chemical Romance’s reunion gigs to TikTok’s E-Boys and E-Girls – via Billie Eilish’s green and black hair – emo is back. Here’s how and why.

Both Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj have announced new personas, continuing a culture of female rappers channelling unfiltered anger through fictional characters.

London’s self-proclaimed Queen of the South affirms her crown with her latest track Anger, out now.

When Octavian met Burna Boy: an all-star Excellence Brunch shows how the video platform is bridging the gaps between artists, audiences and wider music communities around the world.

Volume 4 Issue 003: From Lil Nas X to Ashnikko, we chart ten musicians who‘ve gained meteoric commercial success off the back of the video-sharing app.

Listen to fresh indie pop from Jay Som, a slinky tune from Nigerian star Rema and Manchester's finest Aitch at his best.

Volume 4 Issue 003: With the third-most followed music channel in the UK (behind Ed Sheeran and One Direction), KSI has transitioned from bedroom gamer right to the very top.

The producer rapper on music that hits him where it heals.

Andrew Weatherall, 6th April 1963 – 17th February 2020.

Review: Archy Marshall’s third album as King Krule looks forward, leaving as many doors open as it does closed. Was he born in a barn??

When she blew up back in 2016, the Oakland rapper was headed for stardom, but she claims a major label deal stunted her success. With her new album Got it Made out today, she speaks exclusively to The Face to toast her independence.

The BRITs 2020 Producer of the Year can count Stormzy, Ed Sheeran, Headie One, Mist and Stefflon Don as collaborators. Now he’s stepping out on his own.

Volume 4 Issue 003: As she releases her high-tech pop album Miss_Anthropocene, Canadian musician, producer and artist Grimes unveils a new Balenciaga-clad iteration of WarNymph and reveals how the creation allows for freedom, experimentation and mental-health preservation.

Review: Who says the guitar is dead? No one in The Roundhouse, Camden, London last night.