Wax raps over African Baile drums on the self-produced ‘Switch’

Meron T shares Sey G-produced R&B-soaked singles ‘Dailyy / Crazy out of Love’

Listen to SOPHIE’s previously unreleased BIPP b-side ‘UNISIL’

Ghetts announces ‘Conflict Of Interest’ album featuring Pa Salieu, BackRoad Gee, Miraa May and more

Listen back to an hour of sea shanties and maritime folk on NTS

Clark announces ‘Playground In A Lake’ album with AFRODEUTSCHE, Oliver Coates and more

Police thought pensioners queueing for Covid vaccine was an “illegal rave”

An Iceland neighbourhood wants a Kanye West statue built on the grounds of its swimming pool

Pop Smoke will feature posthumously on Fredo’s album

FKA twigs opens up about “horrific” racist abuse she suffered while dating Robert Pattinson

EU music industry revenues down 76 percent, study finds

ENNY drops hard-hitting ‘Ask About Me’ freestyle

Big Dada relaunches as a label for “Black, POC & Minority Ethnic” artists

30 DMY Artists To Watch in 2021

‘Wellerman’ sea shanty singer inks deal with Universal

Pa Salieu makes his US TV debut with powerful Jimmy Fallon performance

Youth Music’s Incubator Fund announces grants for music industry businesses and collectives

Tim Reaper reworks Special Request for the latest Hooversound drop

Michael Eavis hints at hosting a smaller Glastonbury event in September

OH!DULCEARi, Kear, Valley Boy and more front our BRAND NEW Tracks of the Week

Balou serves up afterparty vibes on the slow-burning ‘Best Wishes’

E4 presents wellbeing and mental health series with D Double E, Ray BLK and more

South East London’s Juvie puts his ambition on display on ‘Lil More’

UK government ministers reject visa-free touring in EU in favour of controlling borders

Japanese pop band CHAI sign to Sub Pop, share ‘Action’

Primavera Sound’s trial event with no social distancing finds zero Covid-19 infections

Lockdown party throwers told police they were “unaware” of global pandemic

Major labels to give evidence in Parliament tomorrow about the economics of streaming

Chip fires shots at Stormzy again on diss track ’10 Commandments’

Trump expected to pardon Lil Wayne and Kodak Black on his last day in office

MF DOOM fans unhappy with inclusion on Joe Biden’s inauguration playlist

Northampton duo Krankhead drop the booming, drill-leaning ‘Hadouken’

Chloe Kay’s electro-pop ‘Fiction’ is about late night texts from an ex

Arielle’s World shares ‘Cascade’, a Caribbean-influenced double single

7th Obi shares melodic rap number ‘High School’

Bandcamp will now press vinyl for you

Ghetts and Stormzy join forces in comic book-inspired ‘Skengman’ video

Paris’s Morena lifts a middle finger to f*ckboys on her ‘Sad Boy Hours’ EP

Amaria, Senses, JOSHUA+ and more make our BRAND NEW Tracks of the Week

Thai rappers make drill to protest the political establishment

Finn and Local Action launch Mixtape Club to pay DJs while clubs are shut

Autechre have remixed SOPHIE’s ‘BIPP’

Björk, FKA twigs, D’Angelo and The Chemical Brothers to curate Sonos stations

DUMMY SESSION: HEN$HAW

Smerz share ‘Believer’, announce debut album on XL Recordings

UK drill music increasingly being used as evidence in court

Flohio traverses London’s empty streets for ‘Roundtown’ visuals

Bicep reveal new ‘Isles’ album track ‘Sundial’

UK government willing to re-open negotiations with EU over “visa-free” touring

MF DOOM and Madlib’s ‘Madvillainy’ follow-up was “85% done”

The 15 Most Exciting Artists For 2021

Bez launches online fitness classes to rival Joe Wicks

Joseph Capriati hospitalised after being stabbed in the chest by his father

UK government reportedly rejected “visa-free” touring deal as part of Brexit negotiations

Loraine James collaborator Le3 bLACK drops icy drill number ‘Cold Winter’

Mya K shares ‘Moves’, an R&B cut dedicated to the hustle

Tom Did It and HEN$HAW address universal struggle on melodic rap cut ‘Ordinary’

phonewifey reveals “barrage of intense, exuberant and smashy energy” single ‘HIT ‘EM WITH A POLE’

Your Loss unveil grime and punk-inflected single ‘Chaos!’

Danny L Harle teases mysterious ‘Harlecore’ project

Ragz Originale returns with ‘brush u’, announces ‘WOAH’ mixtape

Sim Fane, Mansion Boy, Aaron Black and more front our BRAND NEW Tracks of the Week

“I’m afraid I wasn’t with all those freaks”: Jamiroquai addresses Capitol siege memes

Ariel Pink and John Maus attended the pro-Trump riots yesterday

Pa Salieu wins BBC Sound of 2021

Dr. Dre’s home targeted by burglars while in hospital for a brain aneurysm

Covid vaccine conspiracy theorists mistake guitar pedal for “5G chip”

slowthai links with A$AP Rocky on the fiery ‘MAZZA’

Petition calling for visa-free EU travel hits 222,000 signatures

Speedboat unveil playful synth-pop single ‘Dog Toy’

The KLF have put their music on streaming services for the first time

UK government must give the live music sector a “restart date”, report says

Madlib shares the Four Tet-assisted ‘Hopprock’

One in ten songs streamed globally are by British artists

Palestinian DJ Sama’ Abdulhadi released after eight-day detention in Jericho jail

The music world mourns MF DOOM

Burial drops 12-minute rave cut ‘Chemz’

The Chemical Brothers drop ‘ODD BOD DISTRESS IN THE AREA’ mix

London’s 100 Club is piloting a new Covid-secure ventilation system

Primavera Sound successfully trial live music event with rapid Covid-19 testing

Oklou delivers an entrancing remix of Dua Lipa’s and Angèle’s ‘Fever’

Tom Did It shares orchestral version of ‘Thinking Too Much’

Sia drops Shia LaBeouf from her film ‘Music’, calls him a “pathological liar”

slowthai reveals punchy birthday single ‘Thoughts’

Bad Bunny is starring in an action film with Brad Pitt

Caroline Polachek releases her cover of The Corrs’ ‘Breathless’

Bandcamp is continuing its Bandcamp Fridays into 2021

Griselda Records announce debut feature film CONFLICTED

Swedish Lidl released an album of field recordings from the supermarket

Arlo Parks shares “human and tender” visuals for ‘Caroline’

Live events industry lost over $30 billion in 2020, report finds

The 10 Best Garage Remixes, according to Conducta

FKA twigs sues Shia LaBeouf for “relentless” abusive behaviour

Damola shares the R&B-meets-soul ‘Wrong Appeal’

Animai drafts in a live string quintet for lockdown rework of ‘Tigers’

Premiere: Eugene Deluxe shares the lo-fi video to ‘Planetarium Chilling’

Grimes drops surprise DJ mix album as her Cyberpunk 2077 character

The 50 Best Tracks of 2020

HIRA, J-Racks, DavidTheTragic and more make up our BRAND NEW Tracks of the Week

phonewifey links with Kakoushka for dance-pop single ‘SO BAD’

Dummy Mix 608 | Big Miz

DUMMY SESSION: Miles From Kinshasa

The 25 Best Albums of 2020

Eight out of ten artists earn less than £200 a year from streaming

LuckyMe launches its Advent calendar in support of climate change relief

Fred Perry’s All Our Tomorrows is going digital this weekend

Lil Nas X says Frank Ocean and Tyler, The Creator made it easier for him to come out

The best music to buy on December’s Bandcamp Day

BRAND NEW: GOLDEN

DEELA hits up KA$H for trap cut ‘ROLLING STONES’

Premiere: Batu steps in for a dark, angular remix of Krust’s ‘Space Oddity’

Drake has released an $80 scented candle that smells like himself

The 10 Best Vinyl Releases, according to Kelly Lee Owens

Digga D drops Daily Duppy

Serena Isioma, Yung Skrrt, Anna in the Attic and more front our BRAND NEW Tracks of the Week

Dummy Mix 607 | Casey MQ

A new Four Tet, Burial and Thom Yorke collaboration drops in stores on black label vinyl

Premiere: Ess West presents a homage to family at an isolating time in ‘So Solid’ visuals

Pa Salieu announces his debut UK tour

DJ Lag shares new gqom track ‘Siyagroova’

Arca, 100 gecs, Blood Orange, Kenny Beats and more feature on PLZ Make It Ruins’ charity loop compilation

‘Defending Digga D’ looks at the young drill artist’s struggles with having his music policed

Dua Lipa’s Studio 2054 disco party upped the game for virtual live shows

Flohio unleashes high-powered mixtape ‘No Panic No Pain’

Rare music prints are being sold to fund music production crews affected by pandemic

Tom Did It returns with cloud rap message to the haters ‘Like Me’

Dummy Mix 606 | Yawning Portal

Blay Vision chalks out his unique rap vision on new ‘Pain’ EP

“Zero nominations = you’re not invited!” The Weeknd reacts to Grammys snub

ize, Middle Part, Kiddus and more make up our BRAND NEW Tracks of the Week

Ragz Originale returns with the smooth ‘OG lullaby’

Four Tet drops his first-ever d&b track with a remix of Krust’s ‘Negative Returns’

RyL0 shares glitched-out hyperpop single ‘Fancam’

Def Jam is launching in the UK as 0207 Def Jam

Off The Meds are the techno boyband reshaping club music

Megan Ryte accused of ripping off DJ Lag on song featuring will.i.am

New 15-minute Covid-19 testing service is a “game changer” for the events industry

Nines leads the nominations for first MOBO Awards ceremony since 2017

21 Savage’s younger brother TM1way was fatally stabbed in London

The 10 Best Production Hooks, according to Jae5

Angeloumae returns with the reggaeton-inflected ‘Control’

Dummy Mix 605 | Dance System

7th Obi turns in cosmic rap cut ‘Tesla Navigation’

Flohio drops brooding single ‘Sweet Flaws’, details new mixtape

Just John, Slowmotiondancer, Yaielle Golden and more front our BRAND NEW Tracks of the Week

Your Loss call on Kish! for the grime-influenced ‘Hov & Puffy’

BRAND NEW: XATIVA

Joe Goddard adds a subtle groove to pianist Fougère’s ‘Movement’

Bandcamp announces Bandcamp Live, a ticketed live streaming service

Dummy Mix 604 | Crystallmess

Nathan Micay has written the score for new London banking drama Industry

Headie One and Tion Wayne filmed fighting onboard a plane

Obama links “the bling, the women, the money” in rap to Trump’s increased Black male support

Lil Nas X is virtually performing his ‘Holiday’ single on Roblox

Emerging rapper psiv reps Nigerian drill on ‘Gangland’

Blay Vision emulates a scene from American Psycho in the video for ‘Kill Somebody’

GOLDEN shares unheard versions of her ‘Running’ single on ‘Running B-Sides’

Multiple people accuse Derrick May of sexual assault

Pa Salieu’s ‘Send Them To Coventry’ is a scorching debut project from UK rap’s new golden boy

Premiere: DJ JM engineers a euphoric rave moment on ‘XD Remix’

Watch Tame Impala cover Nelly Furtado’s ‘Say It Right’

Octavian has been accused of domestic abuse

Loyle Carner returns with the Madlib-produced ‘Yesterday’

Mutss and Dizzle AP lock horns on ‘No Cappin’

Music Venue Trust launches ‘traffic light’ system to support the most in-need music venues

BRAND NEW: Scarlet Pines

Shygirl reveals four new aliases in the video for ‘SLIME’

Live music may return by Spring 2021, says expert following vaccine news

slowthai says his new album is done

The 10 Best Video Game Soundtracks, according to Daniel Avery

Premiere: Altern 8’s first single in 27 years gets a slamming Denham Audio rework

Miley Cyrus’s ‘Party In The USA’ and N*SYNC’s ‘Bye Bye Bye’ re-enter charts after Biden win

Here’s the best music to buy today, November’s Bandcamp Day

Dutchavelli asserts his rap dominance with debut mixtape ‘Dutch From The 5th’

Dua Lipa says it’s her “duty” to fight for LGBTQ rights

Dummy Mix 603 | anu

Jockey Slut publish Andrew Weatherall tribute book

Sibling band Speedboat share the ’80s-influenced ‘bigboy123’

Kanye West concedes election defeat, announces ‘Kanye 2024’

Eminem licenses music to a political candidate for the first time in support of Biden

Premiere: Sirens of Lesbos loop in Theodor Black for ‘Palm Trees’

Grammys change World Music category to Global Music due to “connotations of colonialism”

Trump introduces Lil Pump as “Little Pimp” at his final rally

Spotify announces new feature where artists can promote their music at a price

Beyoncé owns 80,000 bees

Reeko Squeeze taps Carns Hill on production for ‘Creep’

Bladee and Mechatok team up on the transcendental ‘Drama’

Blay Vision drops the dark-edged ‘Revenge’ in anticipation of his ‘Pain’ project

Dizzee Rascal is now a voice on Waze

Bakar marks his return with sparkling indie-pop anthem ‘1st Time’

Grimes has made a baby AI lullaby to help you sleep

Wifey riddims and Jme drum patterns: the influences behind KwolleM’s ‘c2c’

The Knife announces 2014 Coachella performance streaming party

Pa Salieu’s debut mixtape ‘Send Them To Coventry’ is arriving next month

Oval Space is hosting socially distanced events from November

Youngsta, DayZero and SquareOne offer dancefloor-minded reworks of Animai’s ‘Tigers’

Music industry heads urge people to avoid “plague raves” to save the live scene

Premiere: 7th Obi shares glitchy visuals to jazz-rap hybrid ‘Confusion’

Glastonbury lawyer says the 2021 festival will be going ahead

Musician’s Union launches Justice At Spotify campaign demanding one cent per stream

Ragz Originale shares “global bounce” track ‘ring out ft. 24hoursav’

Flohio and Kasien play on British pub stereotypes in ‘With Ease’ visuals

Oneohtrix Point Never teams up with The Weeknd for ‘No Nightmares’

The 10 Best Tracks To Cry To, according to Arlo Parks

Kanye West says that instead of buying his masters he’ll buy Universal Music

Phoebe Bridgers and Bright Eyes collaborate on abortion rights track ‘Miracle of Life’

Stormzy’s ‘Rainfall’ video was built inside a video game

Premiere: AikJ teams up with Ama and Evans Jnr in psychedelic ‘Replacement’ visuals

Burna Boy describes End SARS movement as “the most important moment in Nigeria’s history”

Four Tet has made an album with Madlib

Dummy launches ‘The 10 Best’ podcast

Dummy Mix 602 | Lou Hayter

HEN$HAW addresses social media toxicity on potent hip-hop cut ‘TIMELINE’

José Padilla has died aged 64

Premiere: Rare0000 shares fiery techno banger ‘Silicon Graphics’

Arts Council England announces £18 million funding package for DJs, artists and more

New ‘Hype Master’ documentary details Stormin’s life, music career and legacy

Animai’s ‘Tigers’ is a masterclass in jazz-edged electronica

Relly Luton shares melodic autumn anthem ‘Life Of The Party’

Blay Vision tours his inner thoughts on ‘Realist Cuz’

Mugun raises the levels in Manga-inspired visuals for ‘Big Worm’

Dublin’s Gemma Dunleavy on the community injustice that spurs her on

Ariana Grande says she’s releasing a new album this month

Dummy Mix 601 | Will Hofbauer

Jon E Cash makes homophobic remarks: “It’s not Black culture”

Festivals receive official advice on how to go ahead next summer

Annie Mac has written a novel about motherhood, addiction and family ties

McDonald’s deny claims their Travis Scott collaboration was to mask racial discrimination lawsuits

FKA twigs wrote a whole album in lockdown with El Guincho

Tom Did It and tmdistant tackle mental health issues on ‘Demons’

“I’m just very worried about the erosion of civil and human rights”: Aphex Twin clarifies his Covid-19 opinions

Headie One shows he’s ready to go where no drill artist has gone before on ‘Edna’

Tory Lanez has been charged over Megan Thee Stallion shooting

Premiere: Henry Greenleaf’s techno slammer ‘Caught’ is a masterclass in sound design

Ghetts and Skepta have collaborated for the first time in history on ‘IC3’

Chip sends for Stormzy with ‘Flowers’ and ‘Killer MC’

Arlo Parks, Che Lingo and Kojey Radical will appear on a Channel 4 World Mental Health Day special

Kelvin MacKenzie enters BBC chairman job race with plans to axe Radio 1 and 2

Morgan Freeman vocalled 21 Savage and Metro Boomin’s album to avoid being typecast as a nice guy

Flying Lotus, Róisín Murphy, Leon Vynehall, Lafawndah sign up for Mixcloud live streams

Bicep announce ‘Isles’ album: hear first single ‘Apricots’

Headie One shares a slice of forthcoming debut album ‘Edna’ with ‘Breathing’

Rishi Sunak says workers will need to adapt for employment amid the pandemic

“As a grime fan…” Matt Hancock’s unearthed Times column sparks social media anger

Britney Spears could be under conservatorship for the rest of her life, claims former estate manager

Coucou Chloe apologises for use of an Islamic hadith in a track played at Rihanna’s Fenty show

New Delhi artist KAVYA talks creativity, pandemic sanity and India’s independent music scene

Overmono share slamming cut ‘Everything U Need’

Dummy Mix 600 | OK Williams

Heaven and G-A-Y owner is taking the government to court over 10pm curfew

Cardi B speaks out about the double standards faced by female rappers

Here’s the best stuff you can buy on October’s Bandcamp day

Carl Cox says the UK government is “100% wrong” over its live industry stance

alt-J announce new music

SL announces ‘Different Dude’ mixtape, drops freestyle

David GotSound explores varying strands of rap on ‘The Mountains’

“My career is not dispensable”: DJ Fat Tony speaks out about the lack of live sector support

“Send him to prison”: Musicians react to the first Trump-Biden debate

Cop or Drop? Big Narstie and The HeavyTrackerz review the singles

Premiere: Odillia taps up Snoop Dogg for the funk-indebted ‘Break It Down’

Love Sept leave a path of destruction in punk-charged ‘Hideout’ visuals

Purity Ring have remixed Alice Deejay’s ‘Better Off Alone’

UK events industry figures stage Parliament protest against latest Covid measures

Premiere: Cromby inaugurates new Potency label: hear the slamming ‘Ahhh’

Canavan’s has closed permanently

Premiere: Flyboy Jetty make us nostalgic for the summer on ‘Take My Side’

Channel U is returning to TV

Dorian Electra’s forthcoming album features Village People, Rebecca Black and Pussy Riot

Music venues are exempt from the 10pm curfew, government confirms

RYL0 takes aim at the music industry “rat race” on hyperpop new single

Lunice reshapes Luniz’s ‘5 On It’ into an off-kilter banger

Oklou’s ‘Galore’ mixtape is dream-like pop perfection

Hudson Mohawke soundtracks a new Joe Biden campaign ad

Dummy Mix 599 | DJ Bempah

Premiere: Lunch Money Life explore themes of surveillance paranoia in the video for ‘Lincoln’

Smoke Boys to split after dropping final mixtape ‘All The Smoke’

Hardwell and other Dutch EDM DJs come out publicly against lockdown measures

Dutchavelli drafts in MCs from Albania, France and India for the ‘Bando Diaries’ remix

England’s 10pm curfew restrictions could remain in place for six months

Knucks is the rising North West Londoner peddling a new wave of alternative rap

One third of musicians could quit due to the pandemic, new survey reveals

On ‘Air Forces’, Mustafa builds on his concept of “inner city folk music”

Listen to a new drill track by Ghanaian rapper Yaw Tog

Sadiq Khan is allocating £450,000 to 141 grassroots London music venues

Skepta links with Essie Gang’s L3 and Michael Phantom on ‘No Stress’

The Trump administration is banning TikTok downloads in the US from Sunday

Ian Brown shares anti-mask and conspiracy theory-filled song ‘Little Seed Big Tree’

Dorian Concept announces new Brainfeeder EP, hear ‘Eigendynamik (Elevator Version)’

Palace x Happy Mondays’ collaboration is a modern twist on Madchester fashion

‘Can Music Make You Sick?’ asks why musicians are three times more likely to have anxiety or depression

Watch a pregnant slowthai in the mind-bending video for ‘feel away’

Flohio returns with the Take A Daytrip-produced ‘Unveiled’

Dummy Mix 598 | Debit

Bugzy Malone appears in court after being charged with two counts of inflicting grievous bodily harm

Kanye West tweets out his record contracts, uploads video of him urinating on a Grammy

Skepta, Arlo Parks and Octavian headline Dummy Live, a three-day streaming series

A petition has been launched to extend the furlough scheme for the live music industry

Facebook explains its crackdown on live “music listening experiences”

Dizzee Rascal and Smoke Boys team up on fiery single ‘Act Like You Know’

Vinyl outsells CDs for the first time in three decades

Lava La Rue returns with elegant Queer anthem ‘G.O.Y.D.’

Pa Salieu and BackRoad Gee share striking monochrome visuals for ‘My Family’

J Hus, Dutchavelli and Dizzee Rascal won big at the GRM Rated Awards 2020

David GotSound escapes to the countryside in ‘You Know The Vibes’ visuals

Tom Did It’s ‘Thinking Too Much’ is a poignant reflection on lockdown blues

July 7 explores his Jamaican heritage on patois-inspired track ‘Waistline’

‘Times New Roman’ is the glistening new single from Scintii

Camelphat reveal anti-vaccination stance on Twitter

You can now take DJing as a GCSE

Zora Jones releases debut album, ‘Ten Billion Angels’, with 360° interactive visuals

Ida Engberg says dance community “should not glorify rapists” following Erick Morillo’s death

MPs back changes to post-Brexit immigration bill due to concern for touring musicians

Visa fees for artists touring the US to rise by over 50%

Oliver Dowden announces ‘Operation Sleeping Beauty’ to bring back live indoor events

patten drops 2-step Sade rework, ’54D3′

Sports Banger launches record label, Heras

Here’s what to purchase today, September’s Bandcamp Day

Cop or Drop? Groove Armada and Todd Edwards review the singles

On ‘Conscious’, Birmingham rapper 12omo has made his DIY masterpiece

Miles From Kinshasa drops his ‘Beloved’ project in full

Evian Christ returns with colossal trance anthem ‘Ultra’

This new pamphlet tells you how to document music and cultural scenes

HEN$HAW takes aim at the UK government in punk-inspired single ‘GO YARD’

Kano is hosting D Double E, Ghetts and more in ‘Newham Talks’ series

Altered Natives launches Trinity Black, a consultancy fighting racial inequality in electronic music

Actress taps up Sampha for ‘Walking Flames’

Dummy Mix 597 | HØST

Watch Shygirl turn into a Bratz doll in the video for ‘FREAK’

Reeko Squeeze shares the Frenchie-filled video for ‘Once’

Erick Morillo has been found dead in Miami

John Frusciante is releasing a jungle and hardcore-inspired album on Venetian Snares’ label

KAVYA shares the striking, globe-spanning video for ‘Quin’

Dozens hospitalised with carbon monoxide poisoning after Oslo cave rave

Daniel Avery shares tribute to “hero” Andrew Weatherall with ‘Lone Swordsman’

Reading and Leeds faces backlash after booking no female headliners for seventh year running

Reeko Squeeze fires back at his enemies on the Ghosty-produced ‘Once’

A grime and UK drill musical drama called ‘Jungle’ is coming to Amazon

South East London artist David GotSound makes sure that ‘You Know The Vibes’

Avalon Emerson helms the next DJ-Kicks mix: listen to new track ‘Wastelands and Oases’

Netflix are making a film about Martin Shkreli buying Wu Tang Clan’s one-of-a-kind album

50 Cent claims that straight men are the “biggest target” of cancel culture

Ghetts, Tiffany Calver and more are offering free online music lessons to students

Premiere: DeGrandi turns in a deep, percussive rework of G3’s ‘I Drink Your Milkshake’

Lotic drops “song for the girls”, ‘Cocky’

Study finds that British female artists are severely underrepresented on UK radio

UK Focus: Beneath the surface of Brighton’s bustling underground rap scene

New compilation ‘For Belarus’ shows solidarity with protesters amid brutal crackdown

TikTok launches legal action with the Trump administration over US ban

Who to catch at the all-digital, free-to-access Pop-Kultur 2020

Pharrell’s ‘Entrepreneur’ video shares snapshots of black-owned business excellence

“Stop lying”: Megan Thee Stallion says she was shot by Tory Lanez

Headie One, AJ Tracey and Stormzy unite on the Crazy Town-sampling ‘Ain’t It Different’

Dizzee Rascal claims forthcoming ‘E3 AF’ album is “flawless”

Britney Spears’ father is to remain in legal control of popstar after unsuccessful court hearing

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion are giving away $1 million to “powerful women”

A. G. Cook announces ‘Apple’ album: hear ‘Oh Yeah’

Mic Righteous launches fundraiser after quad bike crash in Greece

Tune in this Friday for a livestream from Hen$haw, Tm & Remy, wAv.2000 and Kanashi

Dummy Mix 596 | Denham Audio

Anger over DJs playing crowded raves without safety measures during the pandemic

Arlo Parks shares ‘Hurt’, a track “to uplift and comfort those going through hard times”

A contact-tracing app developed by music tech employees has launched in Berlin nightclubs

Thousands attended an electronic music festival in Wuhan last week

“[Black people] are asking for fairness, and we are asking for justice”: Cardi B talks to Joe Biden

Two men have been charged with the murder of Jam Master Jay

Headie One is in Barack Obama’s Summer Playlist

Anthony Fantano is doing a live interview with Jme this Wednesday

Reeko Squeeze drops hallucinatory visual for ‘Go Get It’

Conducta salutes the best of the UKG new school on ‘Kiwi Direkt’ mix

Reeko Squeeze returns with MK The Plug-produced ‘Go Get It’

Skepta, Jme and Julie Adenuga’s mum is releasing a book

Charli XCX’s virtual live show unleashed months of pent-up lockdown energy

The Knife celebrate their 20-year anniversary by reissuing rarities

Darkstar warn about the threat of UK music venue closures in ‘Blurred’ video

Skepta collaborators Jaxxon D. Silva and Jesse James Solomon unite on ‘Blood On The Floor’

Berghain is opening to the public as an art gallery

Dummy Mix 595 | Bianca Oblivion

King Krule taps into the tropes of classic horror on ‘Comet Face’ visuals

Nines recreates legendary rap records from across the decades in ‘Clout’ visuals

Stormzy, Timbaland and Diddy have contributed to Burna Boy’s ‘Twice As Tall’ album

Carole Baskin slams “lurid” video for ‘WAP’ by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion

Here’s what to buy on today’s Bandcamp day

Looking backwards to move forwards, BackRoad Gee is taking UK rap into uncharted territory

Peggy Gou drops ‘Play Gou’ mix featuring Jamie xx, Joy Orbison and Denham Audio

Preditah states he is being held hostage in Egypt and is fearing for his life

Sways drops smooth new single and video for ‘Sweet One’

Jay Z is launching a university in New York

Your Loss return with punk-stained hip-hop cut ‘Memory Hole’

Charli XCX is hosting a one-off digital performance of ‘how i’m feeling now’ to help the homeless

Dummy Mix 594 | Sim Hutchins

Google Play Music to completely shut down by the end of the year

Aminé kicks back at a luxury tennis court in video for ‘Compensating’ feat. Young Thug

FKA twigs announces initiative to support sex workers during the pandemic

Let The Music Play campaign demands the UK government protect more jobs in the live music sector

The Streets and IDLES traverse a narcotic wilderness in ‘None Of Us Are Getting Out Of This Alive’ video

Michael Eavis says Glastonbury might not return until 2022

Hudson Mohawke drops new rarities compilation ‘B.B.H.E.’

Stormzy is reportedly working on a children’s book tackling themes of race and diversity

Mercury Awards consider changes to eligibility rules after Rina Sawayama backlash

Frank Ocean’s teenage brother reportedly dies in car crash

Dave set to collaborate with Sir David Attenborough on new wildlife special

Tom Did It makes a melodic statement of intent in ‘Outside’ video

Premiere: Zoo Look’s ‘Direct Contact’ is break and acid-filled dancefloor weapon

Dummy Mix 593 | Anina

Jorja Smith reflects on her experiences with the Black Lives Matter movement on ‘By Any Means’

Rina Sawayama criticises Mercury Awards after being deemed not British enough to take part

Music festivals to be supported in government coronavirus funding package

Premiere: Bodyjack serves a slice of peak-time warehouse techno with ‘Enfant Terrible’

Emma Rena returns with captivating new single and video for ‘Armageddon’

Flohio cuts through the darkness in ‘Glamourised’ video

The 10 Best Piano-Based Electronic Tracks, according to Shaw & Grossfeldt

Amsterdam’s De School is closing down

Rina Sawayama drops teaser trailer for ‘The Making of SAWAYAMA’ documentary

New York governor launches inquiry into lack of social distancing at Chainsmokers gig

Megan Thee Stallion reveals she was shot in both feet, needing surgery, in tearful IG live

Octavian and Future team up on ‘Rari (Chapter 1)’

Premiere: Mani Festo’s ‘Cheatin’ is a coveted lost dub from five years ago

Hudson Mohawke gives away R&B bootleg EP ‘Heart Of The Night’ as free download

Wiley posts series of tweets spreading antisemitic ideas

A Big Boi and Kate Bush collaboration could be on the cards

“I want to keep people excited”: Piers James is the genre-blending artist defying convention

Secretsundaze launches month-long fundraiser to survive pandemic

More posthumous Pop Smoke albums are in the works

Fatboy Slim and Massive Attack back #LetUsDance campaign to save the UK dance industry

TeeZandos and Fizzler go back to back on the heavy-duty ‘Phone Call’

Kano, Moses Boyd and Charli XCX shortlisted for Mercury Prize 2020

Kim Kardashian posts statement about Kanye’s mental health after concerning behaviour

Dummy Mix 592 | Al Wootton

Coby Sey gives a stripped-back, stirring touch to Kelly Lee Owens’s ‘Melt!’

Darkstar call on fans to share their favourite UK music venue for new project

A new Kanye West album, ‘Donda’, is dropping this Friday

The first-ever official Afrobeats chart has launched in the UK

Headie One links up with Drake on ‘Only You Freestyle’

The Black Madonna changes her name

Cop or Drop? Bad Boy Chiller Crew review the singles

Indoor gigs can resume in England from August 1st, Boris Johnson announces

Unknown T definitively reflects on his inner self, past and future on debut mixtape ‘Rise Above Hate’

Premiere: Model Man recruit DJ Seinfeld for a swirling remix of ‘Why?’

Premiere: umru reshapes Banoffee’s ‘Fukwit’ into a glitchy pop slammer

Premiere: Lido shares intergalactic visuals for slow-burning pop cut ‘Rise’

Manchester’s Deaf Institute and Gorilla have closed down

Miles From Kinshasa’s ‘Wearing Smiles’ is about not pretending that everything’s alright

Drive-in gigs from Wiley, Dizzee Rascal and The Streets cancelled due to local lockdown fears

Megan Thee Stallion was shot during incident involving Tory Lanez

Murlo announces new four-track EP, ‘Primed For Primal’

Dummy Mix 591 | Mani Festo

Men charged with the murder of Pop Smoke could face the death penalty

Premiere: Throwing Snow unveils ‘Snowing Throw’ moniker: hear ‘Lose Again’

Tory Lanez arrested after concealing firearm in car

Rejjie Snow recruits MF DOOM for single ‘Cookie Chips’

WOO HAH! festival locks Future, Young Thug, slowthai for 2021 edition

Premiere: Underground Resistance’s Nomadico turns in a “Funkadelic meets UR” rework

This new mixtape lays iconic grime vocals over soulful hip-hop beats

The Design Museum is reopening with an exhibition about Kraftwerk and the Chemical Brothers

Rising UK rap star Artan shares atmospheric visuals to ‘Uncomfortable’

Hear a 20-minute stream of all-new SOPHIE music

Wiley announces a series of drive-in gigs this summer

FKA twigs stars in short film about female empowerment through dance: ‘We Are The Womxn’

Stormzy surprises Croydon fan by painting his bedroom

James Blake reveals lush string-filled ballad ‘Are You Even Real?’

Daniel Avery releases visual version of surprise album ‘Love + Light’

DJ Plead and Anunaku join forces for a three-track 12″

Kanye is running for president with an anti-vaccine, pro-life stance

The Brixton Courtyard announces socially-distanced events with Leon Vynehall, Sherelle, Erol Alkan and more

The Trump administration is “looking at” banning TikTok in the US

Aminé shares ‘Compensating’ featuring Young Thug, announces new album

Unknown T shares details of ‘Rise Above Hate’ project featuring M Huncho, Young Adz and more

The 10 Best Pop Song Hooks, according to Jessy Lanza

Kanye has already missed voter registration deadlines for his presidential campaign

UK government announces £1.57bn support package for the arts

Christopher Moltisanti is hosting a show on NTS next week

London talent Tora impresses on debut EP ‘Cavalier’

SL’s ‘Selhurst SE25’ EP is a welcome reminder that age is no barrier to greatness

Bandcamp waives its fees again today: buy new releases from A.G, Kush Jones, Jayda G

Dummy Mix 590 | iona

The 10 Best Tracks To Get Your Head Right, according to Noodle

Digga D makes his long-awaited return: watch the video for ‘Woi’

Skepta, Radiohead and more back Let The Music Play campaign to save live music in the UK

Premiere: Jun Kamoda draws for sample-based house and City pop on ‘Escape The Night’

Pa Salieu is the breakout Coventry star on the frontline of UK rap

Kanye West returns with a Travis Scott link-up on ‘Wash Us In The Blood’

Virgil Abloh artwork for Pop Smoke’s album to be changed after social media backlash

Sami Baha, Jlin and Swan Meat appear on new compilation in aid of Black mental health charities

SL pledges £100,000 to charity to “empower today’s youth from all ethnicities”

Fekky launches C&C Foundation to support Black talent in local communities

Rebecca Judd curates our NEXT HYPE playlist

Over 500 UK venues sign letter asking government for £50 million to avoid crippling the live sector

Jay Z’s Roc Nation helped Marcus Rashford win his free school meals campaign

Wiley surprise-drops another album, ‘Boasty Gang – The Album’ weeks after surprise-dropping his last

Ray BLK accuses Ambush of sexual assault

Track by Track: Pinch – ‘Reality Tunnels’

Bandcamp waives sales share for Juneteenth: here’s what to buy today

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs curates our NEXT HYPE playlist

Lo-fi beatmaker Dwyer remixes Theodor Black’s Had Enough’

Dummy Mix 589 | Breaka

Premiere: Ariel shares quarantine-shot video for horny bop ‘Party Line (Dial In)’

“People don’t really care. They just see us as criminals”: Ambush on injustice, police brutality and his bar-setting mixtape

Moses Boyd and Digga D lead nominations for the all-virtual AIM Awards 2020

BRAND NEW: Deema

Dutchavelli “wanted by the police” for attending Black Lives Matter protest

Premiere: Breaka shares samba-sampling breakbeat cut ‘Steeze Flex’

Digga D threatened with prison recall after posting about Black Lives Matter

You can now buy an Altern 8 face mask

Campaign launched to save Brixton cash and carry from millionaire DJ landlord

Stormzy is donating £10 million to organisations fighting racial inequality

Murkage Dave and Manga ride a Mike Skinner beat on ‘Weird Kid In The Ends’ alternate version

The Grammys are removing the term “urban” from their award categories

The 10 Best Tracks To Take Psychedelics To, according to Juan MacLean

K-pop fans rally to support Black Lives Matter

Bristol’s Colston Hall pledges to change its name after slave trader statue pulled down

Wiley drops his ‘Godfather 3’ album two weeks early

How to support Black Lives Matter and anti-injustice causes on today’s Bandcamp day

Dummy Mix 588 | Super Drama

“We are living in one of the worst times in America”: Denzel Curry speaks out about police brutality

YG releases protest track ‘FTP’ (Fuck The Police)

Morgan Hislop, Lava Dome, Snowy and more pledge music profits to anti-racism causes

The 10 Best Conversational Podcasts, according to Anja Schneider

Snowy drops ‘Dominic Cummings’ instrumental

Premiere: Reader’s ‘Say It Like You Mean It’ video is an ode to all the raves we can’t go to

Amsterdam is launching the first socially distanced ‘festival’ next month

“The time to be passive has passed”: Novelist, Kojey Radical, Akala and more react to the death of George Floyd

Premiere: ‘Jesse James’ is a jazz-inflected UKG stepper from Bristol MC Mushkilla and South London producer Dampé

The 10 Best UK Rap Tracks of All Time, according to Smoke Boys

Premiere: Laurence Guy gives a dusty house spin to Session Victim’s ‘Needledrop’

Serbia’s Exit festival will go ahead this summer

Track by Track: Oscar #Worldpeace – ‘Sporadic’

Connie Constance returns with rippling indie-rock cut ‘Monty Python’

“It’s my first real slice of me”: Footsie on bringing FWD>> energy to his versatile debut album

Premiere: Lucy DK’s ‘Southbank’ is about meeting her absent father for the first time in a decade

Lana Del Rey slammed for criticising female artists of colour in album announcement

The 10 Best Underground Artists from the UK and Ireland, according to Cam Wild

Dummy Mix 587 | Yazzus

A new interview with Crazy Titch has emerged

Some Berlin clubs are reopening as beer gardens

The 10 Best UK Rap Films, according to Jords

Premiere: Miller Blue’s ‘Sunflower’ receives a dusky visual

Premiere: Rising Slough artist Houston X shares the James Blake-inspired ‘Scarlett Red’

slowthai and Kenny Beats link up on ‘MAGIC’

Dummy Mix 586 | Jaymie Silk

Skepta collaborator Jaxxon D. Silva drops narcotic freestyle ‘I Feel Like Pain’

Notting Hill Carnival has been cancelled for the first time since 1966

Premiere: BAYLI tackles deception on R&B cut ‘boys lie’

Why criminalising drill music highlights failings at the heart of the UK government

Theodor Black drops video shot in isolation for ‘Had Enough’

Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider has died

Dummy Mix 585 | KG

DJs pull out of tour manager fundraiser after widespread outrage

Here’s what you should be buying on Bandcamp today

Premiere: Eliza Legzdina’s ‘Tic Toc’ is an ode to sex-positivity and girl gang power

Premiere: Faacil2000 shares whirling gasoline-infused track ‘Propulsion’

DMY Recordings is now on Bandcamp

Arca turns into a futuristic Birth of Venus in the video for ‘Nonbinary’

Theodor Black returns with introspective burner ‘Had Enough’

R&S release ‘In Order To Care’ charity compilation to help supply the NHS with PPE

The 10 Best Channel U Classics, according to Hardy Caprio

Overmono reveal stripped-back edit of Rosalía’s ‘A Palé’

Less than half of US music fans say they’ll rush back to live events once lockdown restrictions are lifted

Four Tet gives away Destiny’s Child edit and more tracks for free via Soundcloud

SONIKKU’s ‘Joyful Death’ album is the new soundtrack to our Zoom parties

Premiere: Rising composer Max Winter shares glitchy breakbeat cut ‘CCK 4’

Premiere: Abigail Asante shares explosive debut single ‘Stupid’

Octavian joins Obongjayar and Santi in dystopian Matrix-style party on ‘Poison’ video

Rising singer-songwriter Farrah explores her identity in the video for ‘ID’

WOO HAH! festival has been postponed until 2021

You can now donate money to your favourite artists directly on Spotify

Kadiata encapsulates London’s lockdown spirit in the visuals for ‘Blindside’

Premiere: Hear Violet’s contribution to the latest ‘HeForShe’ compilation, ‘Sketching Tomorrows’

Kanye West and Chick-Fil-A team up to provide 300,000 meals during coronavirus

Chip pays tribute to late friend Black The Ripper on ‘0420’

Listen to a UK drill track produced by Joy Orbison

Premiere: Elusive duo Flat Earth Mafia turn in chopped up rap edit ‘Do It’

Dystopian fiction and anime mountains: the influences behind Hodge’s ‘Shadows In Blue’

Premiere: Otik’s ‘Ghost Mole’ is an atmospheric club belter

The 10 Best Female Rappers of All Time, according to Lavida Loca

“Why do we need to be making stuff right now?”: Dummy meets Tommy Cash

Ticketmaster criticised for changing refund policy during global pandemic

Farrah champions her Iranian heritage on polished R&B cut ‘ID’

Jamie xx shares ‘Idontknow’, his first solo track in five years

Dummy Mix 584 | Chams

The 10 Best Tracks To Stay At Home To, according to Mr. Scruff

Instagram hints at plans to help artists monetise livestreams

Watch Point Blank’s Ski Oakenfull deconstruct Todd Terje’s ‘Inspector Norse’ at LMC 2020

Premiere: Xzavier Stone’s ‘Shea Butta’ is a glistening slice of skewed hip-hop

UNTOLD and Neversea pledge their festival equipment to Romanian hospitals

Concerts and festivals may not return until autumn 2021, healthcare expert warns

Naina curates our NEXT HYPE playlist

The 10 Best R&B-Folk Tunes, according to Jasmine Jethwa

Radiohead are streaming archived live shows every week during lockdown

Aphex Twin shares six new tracks on Soundcloud

Dummy Mix 583 | ELLES

Jay Z and Meek Mill’s organisation send 100,000 surgical masks to US prisons

Black The Ripper passes away aged 32

Charli XCX announces self-isolation album, ‘how i’m feeling now’

Hear a compilation of chopped and screwed UK drill edits by Nammy Wams, First Circle and Ony

Frank Ocean shares two new tracks: ‘Cayendo’ and ‘Dear April’

Headie One and Fred again.. boldly defy convention on the star-studded ‘Gang’

Snowy collaborates with Notts producer LVNDLXRD on ‘G.I. Joe’

Joell and Billy Got Waves share R&B-rap hybrid ‘AEIOU’

Chams, Blonder, Des Montana and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

Dummy Mix 582 | Soraya

Aphex Twin shares message about losing his father and warns about governmental control

Rustie shares new music with cryptic message

Headie One and Fred again.. announce mixtape with FKA twigs, Sampha and Octavian

Collaborative music-making app Endlesss brings TikTok-style spontaneity to producing

The 10 Best Hype Williams-Directed Videos, according to Denai Moore

Company in charge of Coachella’s stages now building coronavirus emergency tents

Lovebox, Parklife, All Points East and more festivals have been postponed

Dummy Mix 581 | Jetsss

Radio listening booms as people self-isolate

Here’s what went down at SXM Festival 2020

Daniel Ness and HNRO loop in Rome Fortune on ‘Lick’

Premiere: Hear Paleman’s cavernous percussion-led slammer ‘Wax Wasp’

Yizzy teams up with Dizzee Rascal again for ‘Don’t Feel A Way’

Bugzy Malone ‘seriously injured’ after quad bike crash

Premiere: Nathan Micay adds a breakbeat edge to Malcolm’s ‘Badman’

The 10 Best Rihanna Album Cuts, according to Ragz Originale

The UK music industry pulls together to fight the economic impact of coronavirus

Skepta, Chip and Young Adz are releasing a joint album

Apple Music’s Beats 1 hosts begin broadcasting from their homes

How is the live music industry coping with the effects of coronavirus?

Here are the best new releases you can buy on Bandcamp today

Mssingno shares three new tracks, ‘CAYA’, ‘HIGHLIKE2’ and ‘GUIDERS’

Musicians turn to live streaming amid concert cancellations

Premiere: B:Thorough and JT The Goon collide on ‘Calm Levz’

Snowy nods to an ex-Newcastle United player on the explosive ‘Nile Ranger’

Premiere: Jaymie Silk’s ‘Herbal’ injects melody into rave sonics

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs releases mix designed ‘for kitchen dancing in times of isolation’

Glastonbury 2020 has been cancelled

FOLD club offers up its space for NHS use

Drill rapper Psychs shares the coronavirus-themed ‘Spreadin”

Caroline Polachek opened the gates of Heaven at her captivating London show

Theodor Black fronts the latest Disclosed Doors session

Slackk, TSVI, Scratcha DVA and more drop Bandcamp releases amid coronavirus outbreak

The 10 Best Drum Breaks In Tracks, according to Overmono

Jamz Supernova curates our NEXT HYPE playlist

UK government introduces measures to help music venues deal with COVID-19 losses

Loski marks his return from prison with cold drill tune ‘Allegedly’

Dummy Mix 580 | T5UMUT5UMU

Premiere: Dro Carey’s ‘Clear To You’ is another example of the Australian producer’s versatility

The 10 Best Artists From The Real US Hardcore Scene, according to Miley Serious

Tame Impala launch initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of their tour

Coachella likely to be postponed over coronavirus fears

The 10 Best Tracks That Define High Focus Records, according to The Four Owls

Kendrick Lamar announces mysterious pgLang project

Premiere: Nikki Nair’s ‘Scuzzy’ is a break-filled bomb

Marathon Labs announce five music tech businesses for their mentoring programme

AceMo drops ‘Mind Jungle’ album: “a birthday present to myself to you all”

Miami’s Ultra becomes first major festival to cancel due to Coronavirus fears

Your Loss, Nana Lourdes, Jäde and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

Dummy Mix 579 | Badsista

Brother-sister duo Chasing Daze reveal the sunshine-soaked ‘Eyes’ EP

The 10 Best Video Game Music Compositions, according to Brame & Hamo

Cadet’s posthumous debut album ‘The Rated Legend’ will be released in April

Mura Masa brought out a festival-sized line-up of guests at his London headline show

Pinty cuts through the London night in video for DJ JD Sports (aka King Krule)-produced ‘It’s Just Life’

Four Tet drops bleepy ambient builder ‘4T Recordings’

Rina Sawayama pokes fun at capitalist ignorance on ’00s-inspired pop cut ‘XS’

The 10 Best Tunes From The ’90s, according to Kamakaze

Premiere: Drum ‘n’ bass veteran J Majik turns in a tough rework of Joris Voorn’s ‘Messiah’

Orchestral outros and Polymoogs: how Kahn & Neek made ‘(Having A Sick Time) In The Mansions of Bliss’

Aminé uses Ol’ Dirty Bastard sample on genre-stretching hip-hop cut ‘Shimmy’

King Krule raised the roof at his ‘Man Alive!’ album launch show in Kingston

A new documentary examines the controversies surrounding UK drill

Dummy Mix 578 | Danielle

Free download: Lixo’s dreamy ‘Ambo’ takes its cues from old school rave sonics

Music and video duo Temptress return with ‘Loving Is A Game’

The 10 Best Psychedelic Rock Tracks, according to Red Axes

LCY (fka L U C Y) drops alias, returns with new EP

SXM festival announces volunteer initiative to support the local community and environment

The 10 Best Jungle Reworks, according to Fixate

Oxlade and Reekado Banks team up on the feelgood ‘Craze’

Dummy Mix 577 // Walton

Aitch reflects on his chart-scaling year with freestyle ‘MICE’

The 10 Best French Boogie Records, according to Lazare Hoche

Nigz TG, Chevel, Jouska and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

Nigz TG’s eerie ‘Smash Hit’ samples an ’80s horror film

Pop Smoke killed in home invasion shooting

Premiere: Borai & Denham Audio serve up old skool rave stylings on ‘Oldboy’

Dave calls Boris Johnson a “real racist” during Brit Awards performance

The 10 Best Classic UK Garage Tracks, according to DJ EZ

Unknown T cleared of New Year’s Eve party stabbing

Teki Latex and Nick Dwyer are releasing a golden era video game mixtape

The electronic music community pays tribute to Andrew Weatherall

The 10 Best Under-The-Radar Alté Tracks, according to Lady Donli

Listen to Hypna’s ‘Data Recovery’ EP

Listen to Farrah’s ‘Sweet Feels’ Valentine’s playlist

Premiere: ELEVNS express the uniqueness of intimacy on ‘Love You Like I Do’

Premiere: Mai Kino pays teary-eyed homage to the miracle of birth in ‘Swim’

Ten things to look out for at SXM festival 2020

Sherelle and Naina announce debut Hooversound release

Arlo Parks drops new single, ‘Eugene’

Leo Dessi, On Man, MEYY and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

New-school garage producer Mind of a Dragon announces six-track EP

Secretsundaze launch Dance 2 Sustain initiative

Flohio dominates from all angles in ‘Heavy (freestyle)’ video

Rinzen explains his production process in this Point Blank techno masterclass video

Track by Track: Slim Pappito – ‘Excellent Adventure’

AikJ and JyellowL forge R&B banger with a difference on ‘Last Flight (remix)’

King Krule extinguishes feelings of isolation in ‘Alone, Omen 3’ video

Strawberries & Creem festival returns for 2020 with Sean Paul, Mike Skinner, Jaykae and more

Serena Isioma, Emerson Leif, Alex Banin and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

The 10 Best Soundtracks From 1980s/’90s Games, according to Session Victim

Houghton festival returns for 2020 with Cobblestone Jazz, Helena Hauff, Move D and more

Dummy Mix 576 // Riz La Teef

We Out Here locks Underground Resistance, Ezra Collective, Floating Points for 2020

Fizzler explores the darkness of poverty on fiery drill cut ‘Minimum Wage’

Watch a new documentary about Lil Silva and George FitzGerald aka OTHERLiiNE

Kaytranada and Kali Uchis let loose at a retro dance party in ‘10%’ video

Premiere: Bo Ningen frontman Ill Japonia goes for a softer approach on ‘MIZEL’

This Instagram account is a goldmine for white labels from the golden era of grime

The 10 Best Examples of the ‘New Lisbon Sound’, according to PEDRO

Premiere: Handsome Boys (Moleskin and Boardgame James) drop R&G cut ‘Take Your Time’

Snowy shows off his ice-cold flows on new Risky Roadz freestyle

Gorillaz team up with slowthai and Slaves for Britpop-inspired track ‘Momentary Bliss’

Premiere: Doktor’s ‘Flex N Bounce’ radiates pure energy

BRAND NEW: HAWA

Kanye throws midnight Sunday Service honouring Kobe Bryant

The 10 Best Activists in Music, according to Blond:ish

FKA twigs says she wasn’t asked to sing at the Grammy’s Prince tribute

Tyler, the Creator labels his Grammy win a “backhanded compliment”

Premiere: Mercy’s Cartel addresses situationships on ‘Sleep’

The 10 Best Mixes To Run To, according to Martha

J Hus marks new horizons with ‘Big Conspiracy’ album

P Money collaborates with the Department for Education on track ‘The Calling’

Jamie Isaac teams up with Nosaj Thing for the gently grooving ‘Next to Me’

Pop Smoke, slowthai, DaBaby locked for WOO HAH! 2020

Rosalía shares emotional prison visit video for flamenco song ‘Juro Que’

Jam City leaks his own music on Twitter, including ‘Final Joust’

The 10 Best Examples of Chinese Instrumentation in Hip-Hop/Pop, according to GZ Tian 

British-Iranian artist Farrah releases the stirring ‘Back to You’

Four Tet announces ‘Sixteen Oceans’ album

The 20 Most Exciting Artists For 2020

Sega Bodega stars in Marilyn Manson-inspired video for ‘Salv Goes to Hollywood’

Kano releases documentary detailing ‘Hoodies All Summer’s creative process

13XL’s ‘Q_Q’ EP rips up convention with punk-tinged nihilism

Rina Sawayama announces ‘Sawayama’ album: hear ‘Comme Des Garçons (Like The Boys)’

Wiki traverses his hometown of New York in ‘The Routine’ video

Safiyyah ditches toxic energy for self-growth on ‘You Again’

Gage pens love letter to ’90s rave on ‘E Anthem’

Sega Bodega announces debut album: listen to ‘Salv Goes To Hollywood’

The 10 Best Esoteric Anomalies, according to Psychemagik

Charli XCX collaborates with Nintendo on a song for its Japanese theme park

“The music’s shit”: Wiley draws out Stormzy further on ‘Eediyat Skengman 3’

Priya Ragu, Kij, Nix Northwest and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

Morgan Hislop gives Todd Terje’s ‘Inspector Norse’ a “rave rebuild”

Mutant Joe’s ‘Operation Chaos’ project is a neurotic mixing pot of shadowy electronics

Watch this documentary on Roadworks, the education course using drill to educate at-risk youth

Bonobo, Danny Tenaglia, tINI and more join SXM festival’s lineup

Grimes announces ‘pregnancy’ with Elon Musk

Cadell enters the war with Stormzy send ‘World War III’

Dummy Mix 575 // Tetsumasa

Headie One sentenced to six months in jail

Mall Grab, DJ Plead, Nina Las Vegas and more release music for Australian bushfire crisis

“I’ve done more for you than your dad has”: Wiley hits back at Stormzy as beef escalates

How to Make A Big Techno Kick, according to Danny Linton

Dummy Mix 574 // Jon1st

The 10 Best New Artists Coming Out Of Mexico City, according to N.A.A.F.I

“When I slap your face you best fight back”: Stormzy responds to Wiley with drill tune ‘Disappointed’

Sim Hutchins’ Whigfield rework gains some retro karaoke visuals

Wiley accuses Stormzy of not caring about grime on diss track ‘Eediyat Skengman’

The 50 Best Albums of 2019

The 50 Best Tracks of 2019

The 20 Best UK Drill Projects of 2019, according to Nammy Wams

Dixon discusses clubs failing to keep up with technology in his Telekom Electronic Beats podcast

Tray Haggerty, Lijah, Cloutgod Duggie and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

Tommy Genesis is executing her own, rebellious world vision

1,500 DJs call for ‘eco-riders’ in new Plastic Free Party initiative

SOPHIE twists SONIKKU’s ‘Sweat’ into a eurodance banger

Manga Saint Hilare and Murkage Dave explore self-care on ‘We Need to Look After Us’

The 10 Best Old School Techno Tracks for Marathon Sets, according to Sept

Plan B explains the first past the post voting system on new cut

Kaytranada announces album ‘Bubba’: hear the Kali Uchis-featuring ‘10%’

At her Fire headline show, Hannah Diamond reignited her maximalist pop sound

Wiley promises new weekly podcast series

Premiere: LP2Loose makes a bold statement of intent on ‘Waterkid’

IAMDDB drops ‘Famous’, announces European tour

Theodor Black reveals two sides of his personality with ‘Slow Burns’ and ‘Anxiety’

I Saw it First is searching for the best UK female artists

Hak Baker recounts his run-ins with the police on ‘PC Plod’

Premiere: Nídia takes her percussive club sounds to Lafawndah’s ‘Tourist’

J Hus says he won’t perform again for three or four years, “maybe more”

Blondie Snitch, Caev, G.L.A.M. and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

The 10 Best Pop Songs In ’80s Movies, according to Saint DX

Dummy Mix 573 // Architect

Caribou announces ‘Suddenly’ album: listen to ‘You and I’

Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: DMY x Morgan Hislop reveal capsule collection

Premiere: Kingdom loops in Nate Huff for seductive R&B jam ‘Off Track Mind’

The 10 Best Songs To Recover To, according to Blue Hawaii

SoundCloud implements 15-track upload limit for free users

Nines makes highly-anticipated return in style with ‘Pride’

Jme releases ‘Grime MC’ album on CD and vinyl only

A.SAINT, Ashley Morgan, maxime. and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

Premiere: Pearson Sound turns in a dark-edged remix of St. Vincent’s ‘Dancing With A Ghost’

Ireland and South London collide on Offica x Fizzler’s drill heater ‘SkiddiBop’

Blue Story cinema ban labelled institutionally racist

Kano, Stormzy, Ghetts and more come out in support of Jeremy Corbyn

Explosive Baltimore club and UK funky bootlegs: the influences behind Bok Bok’s ‘Pure Shores’

Grimes says live music will soon become “obsolete”

The 10 Best Pop Songs With A Punk Mentality, according to Alma

Rina Sawayama confronts racial stereotypes on date from hell in the video for ‘STFU!’

Sila Lua, Jäde, Harry Edohoukwa and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

Snowy collides with Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson on ‘EFFED’

Premiere: Clark goes full throttle on the slamming ‘Branding Problem’

King Krule returns with ‘Hey World!’ short film

Premiere: Japan-born newcomer E L L E blends noise and rap on ‘HYDRA’

Eglo Records to release 30-track compilation marking tenth year as label

slowthai, Rico Nasty and ICECOLDBISHOP feature on Take A Day Trip’s ‘Lighthouse’

New Kojey Radical x Napapijri T-shirt is brought to life using augmented reality

Grimes drops celestial cut ‘So Heavy I Fell Through The Earth’

Dummy Mix 572 // Clu

Clockenflap 2019 cancelled amidst escalating protests in Hong Kong

Yizzy links with Dizzee Rascal for the high-octane ‘Back It’

Jme releases video of him playing ‘Grime MC’ tracks, announces in-store dates

The 10 Best New Acts Coming Out of Brighton, according to Para Fiction

Joy Orbison and Overmono unite as Joy Overmono

FOLD has license suspended by Newham council

From conflict to crossfaders, liberalism in Lebanon is taking hold through electronic music



Phase is a brand new club and studio space coming to Croydon

The 10 Best Experimental Japanese Artists, according to Ultrademon

Doja Cat, Octavian and more announced for Spotify’s ‘Who We Be Live’ 2019

“Showing people your heart when it’s raw, it is vulnerable”: FKA twigs opens up on Beats 1 about ‘MAGDALENE’

Clams Casino’s experimental ‘Moon Trip Radio’ gets a psychedelic A/V accompaniment

Leon Vynehall drops new track “directed squarely at soundsystems”

Grandma, Phabo, Pool Cosby and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

‘Giant Swan’ is the Bristol duo’s most bewildering, visceral outing yet

Movement Torino 2019 brought contemporary techno legends to northern Italy

Azadi.mp3 articulates end-of-summer angst on ‘Summer In The Crypt’

D Double E soundtracks the IKEA Christmas advert

slowthai and Mura Masa reunite with video for punk-infused ‘Deal Wiv It’

J Hus returns with new JAE5 collaboration ‘Must Be’

Frank Ocean teases Arca remix of Skepta collaboration ‘Little Demon’

Dummy Mix 571 // Juan Plus One

Premiere: Ehua mines deep drum sounds on Nervous Horizon-released ‘Meteora’

Premiere: Hare Squead and Jay Prince advocate self-care on ‘Meeting With Myself’

Ricardo Villalobos, Cassy, DJ Tennis and more announced for SXM festival 2020

Kanye West tops Christian charts for the first time with ‘Jesus Is King’

The 10 Best Dark Underground Trap Bangers, according to Mutant Joe

A confluence of art and technology, ACCA Digital 2019 saw electronica’s finest traverse the digital frontier

Phrixus experiments with intricate sound design on his ‘Doubt’ EP

The 10 Best Tracks with Powerful Political Samples, according to Throwing Snow

Dummy Mix 570 // Minimal Violence

The 10 Best Halloween Bangers, according to PoundlandBandit

Four Tet shares two new tracks under his ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ alias

BRAND NEW: Dummy meets 18YOMAN

SEMIBREVE 2019 was a thoughtfully-curated weekend of world-class electronics

The 10 Best Blog House Remixes No-one Asked For, according to Giant Swan

404, Master Peace, Azadi.mp3 and Kish! play our first NEXT HYPE night at Miranda

The 10 Best Tracks from My Hood, Ghana, according to Bryte

JFDR, Mia Carucci, Benin City, Piksel and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

Premiere: Wuh Oh made the glitchy ‘Ziggy’ after dreaming about a club tune

Dummy Mix 569 // Bored Lord

Premiere: SOPHIE collaborator Kota Banks shares luxe pop anthem ‘BIG BUCKS’

Kish! unveils the cinematic, lo-fi video for ‘Sly Cooper’

The 10 Best Remixes of 140BPM Tracks, according to Sicaria Sound

Free download: Cressida’s ‘New Day’ twists a Wiley vocal into a shadowy dub cut

TNGHT announce seven-track EP ‘TNGHT II’: Hear ‘Dollaz’

Electro-magnetic phenomena and Japanese ambient: the inspirations behind Jacques Greene’s ‘Dawn Chorus’

The 10 Best Non-English International Pop Hits, according to Sirens Of Lesbos

Dummy Mix 568 // Paleman

The five best artists to catch at SEMIBREVE 2019

ALASKALASKA reveal slick remix of ‘Happyface’ courtesy of Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard

Premiere: Effie’s ‘Fairytale’ flips the concept of idealised relationships

Kllo, Denitia, Berel and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

Model Man’s ‘Beta’ channels the trial and error of computer games

The 10 Best MTV Chill Out Zone Tracks, according to Animistic Beliefs

The 10 Best Tracks from Phantasy Rave in Reigate on 30/09/1989, according to DJ Phantasy

The 10 Best Remixes of 808 State Tracks, according to 808 State

Taking Off: Prospa

Quelle Rox, Kwaku Asante, Crook and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

The 10 Best Names In Underground Rap, according to Don Krez

The 10 Best Songs With An Environmental Message, according to Cerrone

Sim Hutchins’ new project invites you to share your ‘Club Love’ stories in exchange for music

Watch Suitman Jungle play D&B live in his track breakdown for Point Blank

GAIKA, Kai Whiston, Big Zuu and more play Roundhouse Rising festival

The 10 Best Songs To Come Out of Nigeria, according to Rema

Dummy Mix 567 // Sugai Ken

Skengdo x AM return with first full-length mixtape ‘Back Like We Never Left’

Haich Ber Na, Deema, Rada and Theodor Black kick off Dummy’s BRAND NEW Laylow residency

Four acts to catch at ACCA Digital in partnership with Brighton Digital Festival

The 10 Best Acid House Tracks, according to Dusky

The 10 Best Sci-Fi Movie Soundtracks, according to Ross From Friends

Movement Torino 2019 to celebrate the moon landing anniversary with techno legends

Dummy Mix 566 // Ariel Zetina

How to transform your drum mixing, according to Danny Linton

“We want it raw!” How FunctionLab is carving out a genre-less club scene in China

Premiere: Production powerhouse God Colony return with the steely ‘Etiquette’

Dummy Mix 565 // Ipek Gorgun

Benji B and Kerri Chandler headline BUDX’s Amsterdam parties this September

Lonelyspeck, Grasps, AJÁ ROSE and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

Dummy Mix 564 // Sonia Calico

Holly Herndon and Caterina Barbieri play ACCA Digital 2019

Ballantine’s is spotlighting the importance of nightclubs at this year’s ADE

Aphex Twin brought rave history – and Gemma Collins – to Printworks

The 10 Best Tracks For Autumn, according to Trentemøller

Yizzy shares high-powered rap anthem ‘Hustle Hard’

Drake’s OVO Sound releases the Top Boy soundtrack

Bloodz Boi, Joey G ii, Sandy Hsu and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

The 10 Best Eurodance Tracks of the Y2K, according to LIZ

Dummy Mix 563 // DJ Nativesun

Major Lazer sample cumbia classic ‘Ay Curura’ on the J Balvin and El Alfa-featuring ‘Que Calor’

Wiley says Drake tried to sign Skepta “for peanuts” and more on Twitter

Premiere: Hear the throttling Prostitutes remix of Vee’s ‘Aether’

Chilly Gonzales discusses “trolling” his audience and more in his Telekom Electronic Beats podcast

Neopop festival 2019 was a story of keeping techno sacred

The 10 Best UK Funky Tracks of All Time, according to Donae’O

The 10 Best Breakbeat Diva Anthems, according to Kingdom

“That’s what I’m proudest of, that I have a diehard fanbase”: The cult of Kim Petras

Inka Upendo, Limvge, T. Evann and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

The 10 Best Tracks by Female Grime Artists, according to Cassie Rytz

The practicality of the Dutch made Lowlands festival 2019 another success

The 10 Best Tracks To Wake Up To, according to MJ Cole

Cop or Drop? DJ Bone reviews the singles

Club 2 Club 2019 locks slowthai, Holly Herndon, Skee Mask and more

The Dummy Guide to Kano

The 10 Best Imaginary Dub Versions, according to !!!

Premiere: Don Sinini flexes within nature in the video for the syrupy ‘Come My Way’

Premiere: Mancunian producer Mecca:83 brings broken beat flavours on ‘Porto Alegre’

Premiere: Measure For Measure’s ‘PaperCuts’ channels “obsession, rejection, intimacy”

The best Norwegian artists who played Øya festival 2019

Boxed has unveiled a free 24-track compilation, ‘Boxed MMXX’

Terror Danjah is critically ill in a coma

Terrence Dixon: Tales of an Accelerated Future

The 10 Best Carnival Anthems, according to Jelani Blackman

Premiere: Mumbai producer Sandunes shares the meditative ‘Eleven:Eleven’

Haich Ber Na, Tiggz, Shahrae and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

No ID is putting on an all-South Asian stage at Lost Village

The 10 Best LA Songs You’ve Never Heard, according to AUGUST 08

9 of the best small venues that were on offer at Boomtown 2019

Dummy Mix 562 // Soundbwoy Killah

The 10 Best New School Broken Beat Tracks, according to Shy One

Doja Cat channels Fruit Ninja in the video for ‘Juicy’

Tohji, Rockstar Payso, Lonelyspeck and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

DJ Bone is throwing a ‘Homeless Homies’ fundraiser at ADE

Dummy Mix 561 // Banshee

The 10 Best Drag Race Lip Synch For Your Life Tracks, according to Blanck Mass

Untold festival 2019 carved out a magical utopia in the middle of Romania

ISM calls on government to cover musicians’ costs in event of no-deal Brexit

How To Write A Hit Song, according to Jax Jones

The 10 Best House Tracks From Peacefrog’s Back Catalogue, according to Alex Virgo

Naira Marley celebrates his newfound freedom in the video for ‘Soapy’

The 10 Best Andy Kaufman Moments, according to Pen Gutt

The 10 Best Lord of the Mics Bars, according to Reece West

Cop or Drop? Martyn reviews the singles

The 10 Best 160 BPM Tracks, according to Sherelle

Here’s what happened at Jme’s ‘Grime MC’ event at Boxpark Croydon over the weekend

Manara enslists Ikonika, Bok Bok and more for charity compilation ‘The Ultimate Spice Mix’

The 10 Best Choreographed Music Videos, according to Channel Tres

Oval Space has eradicated all single-use plastic from its venues

Burial and The Bug unite again for a ‘Flame 2’ EP

The 10 Best Under-18 MCs In The Game, according to Oso Wavey Jay

The 10 Best Ambient Artists From Russia, according to PTU

13XL throw caution to the wind in the visuals for ‘Love & Guap’

“I want to put out something timeless”: The unstoppable vision of Rich Brian

Watch CLON and NWRMNTC present their new A/V project, META

The best female acts to catch at Øya festival 2019

EXIT festival 2019 had something for every type of music lover

The 10 Best UK Collaborations, according to Steel Banglez

Sónar 2019 lived up to its ethos of ‘music, creativity & technology’

Premiere: Air Max ’97 remixes one of his early influences, Becoming Real

The 10 Best Chicano Anthems, according to Cuco

The 10 Best Pride Weapons, according to Muallem

Premiere: Paranoid London bring high-strength acid on ‘Cult Hero (Do You Wanna Touch Me)’

slowthai, Little Simz, IDLES nominated for the Hyundai Mercury Prize 2019

Dummy Mix 560 // Mind Of A Dragon

The 10 Best Grime Freestyles Of All Time, according to Oblig

Premiere: Benny Mails distills the fiery passion of his live shows into ‘Marathon’

Richie Hawtin unveils plans for an app he’s building in his Telekom Electronic Beats podcast

Hideout festival 2019 was a Croatian paradise of house and techno’s biggest names

Badgirl$ are the trio looking to reignite the British pop landscape

Kano announces sixth studio album ‘Hoodies All Summer’

Love International 2019 boasted intimate, hedonistic partying on the Adriatic coast

How To Get Your Track Playlisted On Spotify, according to the experts

Dummy Mix 559 // Kittin

Premiere: Icelandic rapper Countess Malaise drops post-apocalyptic visuals for ‘Veskið Mitt’

Rosalía brought London to pin-drop silence at her Somerset House show

Here’s what went down at The Peacock Society 2019

Yizzy addresses knife crime issues in his ‘3 Minutes To Live’ video

Unknown T charged with murder of a 20-year-old man

Five acts to catch at Sónar 2019

The 10 Best Tech-Haus Whippers, according to Seb Wildblood

Premiere: Hear Clark’s eerily atmospheric ‘Primary Pluck’

The 10 Best Songs To Empower Womxn, according to Ashnikko

Corella shares Cadenza collaboration ‘Hey Cutie’

UNTOLD festival unveils its 2019 anthem, courtesy of Armin van Buuren

Premiere: Blvckhaze’s ‘SWA’ is the dancehall banger you need for summer

Premiere: Murder He Wrote’s ‘Cuíca Riddim’ offers a fresh take on UK funky

Ramz “getting the support he needs” after posting suicide-related message on social media

Aaron Unknown and Yizzy hit an old boozer in the video for ‘Me, Myself and I’

Dummy Mix 558 // Scratcha DVA

The 10 Best Nightmares On Wax Tracks, according to Folamour

Premiere: Timbah perfects emotive club music with ‘Smokesum’

Women ruled Wireless 2019, the year of US-UK link ups