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 ...

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 ...

This year, between six and 10 UK festivals are hoping to provide drug testing on site following the recent increase in drug-related deaths. As the UK appears to be slowly catching up with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Primary Optics is a series that dives into the ideas and technology behind some of the world’s most innovative audiovisual shows and artists. Earlier this year, FACT travelled to Berlin to ...

“Dear Tommy will be a shitty pop album. I’m not there to feed him ideas. You will get garbage.” Italians Do It Better co-founder Mike Simonetti is still angry about the $13,000 he claims ...