This year we met the best pop star on the planet, the most influential producer in music and a TikToker whose fans crashed our website. Not bad, eh?
This year, as we searched for a new identity, English culture went forward into the past, from folk horror Enys Men to Morris dancers at the Brit Awards, via Green Man-themed Coronation invites and ritualistic raves. What's going on?
Each week, we interview a rising musician who’s caught our eye. From UK rap wunderkinds to trance aficionados and jersey club experimentalists, here are some of our favourites from the past year.
...across music, fashion, film, TV and literature. Dig in.
She's the best pop star on the planet: a rage-soundtracking, youth-code cracking, confidence-power packing backdrop to a million teenage lives. And jaw-droppingly, brilliantly, excitingly, the 20-year-old is just getting started.
Editor Matthew Whitehouse on THE FACE's latest cover star, Olivia Rodrigo, and the teenage lives she's soundtracking.
