Music

With “Forever and Tomorrow,” Valerie Chanelle blends soulful R&B, contemporary funk and nostalgic pop as she continues to define her sound between Stockholm and Los Angeles.

The band speak on stripping “Magazine” to the bone, actualising with one mind across four bodies, and what comes after a year spent everywhere at once.

Waterworks stretches into a 36-hour dance at The Cause, with longer sets, collective takeovers and a line-up mapping the many currents of UK club culture.

With “Língua Espúria” approaching, António Feiteira explains how muscle memory, generative tools and electronic systems shape Amuleto Apotropaico’s new language.

Rett Smith burns the map and starts again as Tin Lung, leaving his guitar-driven sound behind with the hardware-only electronic experimentation of “EP 1”, out today.

The artist becomes a cosmic centauress in Andrew Thomas Huang’s video for “Wasp In the Fig”, a tender, visceral vision of motherhood and metamorphosis.

On “Prima”, the Slovak singer turns pop ambition into a tightly choreographed spectacle, glossy, funny and vulnerable enough to show what becoming a star can truly cost.

A TikTok comment became the starting point for Charlie Jeer and Cat Burns’ warm, disco-inflected collaboration.

Berlin siblings moonvine are back with “catch me if you can”, a new single made for getting lost somewhere between the dance floor and the afters.

Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale and Deutsche Telekom are turning down the noise with “Not a passenger,” a new campaign about taking back control when everyone seems to have an opinion.