In the summer of 2006 the Klaxons spawned nu rave, but the real youth subculture of the mid-00s was the music that DJs played after bands had finished: blog house. It’s difficult to define ...

Birthed in Chicago’s blighted South Side in the early 2010s and popularized by artists like King Louie and Chief Keef, drill music – an aggressive descendent of trap – has all but faded from ...

Digital album leaks have been happening for more than 20 years, but it’s been a long time since they were this prominent in the news. Leaks became a regular occurrence for the label around eight ...

Road rap sprang up in London during the mid-2000s, emerging from grime’s heartland in a period when the genre was out of favour. For a few years, road rap temporarily eclipsed grime as the ...

You can’t talk about Southern rap without acknowledging pioneering Memphis posse Three 6 Mafia. Formed in the early ’90s by producers Paul Beauregard (DJ Paul) and Jordan Houston (Juicy J ...

How prehistoric biota inspired the SVBKVLT artist’s captivating new album, Holes of Sinian. This feature was originally published in Fact’s F/W 2023 issue, which is available to buy here.

Let’s be clear: trance isn’t cool. It never was cool, it isn’t cool, and it never will be cool. As a genre, it’s also responsible for a lot of absolute bilge over the years. It became one ...

The legendary Kevin Martin – aka The Bug – steps up to present his PRESSURE event series and label, reworking Miss Red’s K.O. in a dubplate style. Kevin Martin hardly needs an introduction ...

The singer may have enlisted Roald Dahl’s beloved illustrator for his upcoming project. James Blake is gradually letting information slip about his highly anticipated new album, and today we may ...

Jigga historians, take note: he’s spelling his name with an umlaut again. On the website of Jay-fronted streaming menace Tidal, Jay Z has suddenly become Jaÿ-Z – and only a few years after he ...

FACT’s John Twells traveled to Latvian capital Riga to check out the second edition of Erica Synths’ Kontaktor festival, a community-focused celebration of techno and technology. When I arrive ...

Earlier this week, SBTV unearthed a piece of music from Wolverine: Adamantium Rage, a platform game from 1994. The track, by producer Dylan Beale, was released eight years before Musical Mob’s ...