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FROM GETTING HER FIRST TASTE OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC AS A TEENAGER CHASING CLUB NIGHTS, TO BECOMING ONE OF TECHNO’S MOST DISTINCTIVE VOICES, JULIET FOX HAS CARVED HER OWN SPACE. LAUNCHING HER LABEL TREGAMBE GAVE HER THE FREEDOM TO RELEASE MUSIC ENTIRELY ON HER OWN TERMS. NOW, WITH HER SIX-PART SERIES TECHNOPATRA, SHE UNFOLDS A NARRATIVE THAT MERGES CLUB CULTURE WITH PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION, ONE THAT REFLECTS NOT ONLY HER ARTISTIC EVOLUTION, BUT ALSO HER JOURNEY INTO MOTHERHOOD.

Somewhere between the dusty tapes of a Bamako courtyard, the mainstage of Glastonbury, and a collective fatigue with manufactured pop, the Malian duo have become synonymous with authentic cool. Forged in the crucible of Mali’s rich musical history, then catapulted to a more global stage by an unlikely French rock star, their legacy is one of bridges between genres, continents, and human connection. It often begins with the guitar, that unmistakable, fuzzed-out, cyclical riff

FROM DEFINING BERLIN'S MILLENNIUM TO BECOMING A POP INSTITUTION, 2RAUMWOHNUNG HAVE SPENT TWO DECADES FUSING ELECTRONIC PRECISION AND UNAPOLOGETIC MELODY. FORMED BY INGA HUMPE AND TOMMI ECKART IN THE EARLY 2000S​ AFTER YEARS IN THE PUNK AND UNDERGROUND SCENES, IN THIS CONVERSATION THEY DISCUSS BUILDING A LABEL TO PROTECT THEIR ARTISTIC FREEDOM, THE EVOLUTION OF THEIR LIVE SHOWS, AND WHY AFTER OVER A MILLION RECORDS SOLD, THEY STILL OPERATE PURELY ON INSTINCT. @2raumwohnungoffi

WE CAUGHT UP WITH GIRL SCOUT AT THE START OF THEIR EU/UK HEADLINE TOUR TO CHAT ABOUT WRITING SONGS LIKE DIARY ENTRIES AND THE EXISTENTIAL ENERGY RUNNING THROUGH THEIR DEBUT ALBUM. FROM FIRST REHEARSALS TO RECORDING DURING THE ISOLATION OF COVID, THE STOCKHOLM-BASED BAND BUILT THEIR SOUND THROUGH INSTINCT RATHER THAN STRATEGY. IN THIS CONVERSATION LEAD SINGER EMMA REFLECTS ON THEIR JAZZ SCHOOL ROOTS, THE EMOTIONAL SWINGS THAT SHAPE THEIR MUSIC, AND WHY MAKING EP’S FIRST HELPED

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN CRATE-DIGGING PURISTS, EAST LONDON LOFTS, AND A QUIET REJECTION OF THE BILLBOARD 200, ETHIO-JAZZ HAS BECOME THE SOUNDTRACK OF A CERTAIN KIND OF TASTE. BUT THIS ISN’T JUST AN AESTHETIC TREND, IT’S THE ECHO OF A MUSICAL REVOLUTION ROOTED IN EXPERIMENTATION, RESISTANCE, AND IDENTITY. ONCE THRIVING IN THE NIGHTLIFE OF 1970S ADDIS ABABA, THEN FORCED UNDERGROUND, THIS MUSIC HAS SINCE BEEN REDISCOVERED, REISSUED, AND REVERED BY GLOBAL AUDIENCES FAR FROM ITS ORIGINS

WE CAUGHT UP WITH MIETZE CONTE TO TALK ABOUT INTUITION, EXPERIMENTATION, AND THE FREEDOM OF NOT KNOWING WHERE A SONG IS GOING NEXT. FROM THEIR LATEST PROJECT wufwufwuf TO SURREAL VISUALS AND HIGH-ENERGY LIVE SHOWS, THEIR PROCESS IS ROOTED IN SPONTANEITY: FAST DECISIONS, CONSTANT REINVENTION, AND TRUSTING INSTINCT OVER STRUCTURE. IN THIS CONVERSATION, THEY REFLECT ON MAKING MUSIC WITHOUT RULES, CONNECTING WITH AUDIENCES ACROSS THE WORLD, AND WHY THE MOST EXCITING IDEAS ARE OF

SOME FILMS STAY WITH YOU NOT BECAUSE OF SPECTACLE, BUT BECAUSE THEY FEEL PAINFULLY REAL. ACROSS DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND DECADES, MOVIES LIKE STAND BY ME, ALMOST FAMOUS, TRAINSPOTTING, AND ANGELA’S ASHES CAPTURE SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT YOUTH. WHETHER THROUGH FRIENDSHIP, MUSIC, ADDICTION, OR POVERTY, EACH FILM EXPLORES YOUTH IN ITS RAWEST FORM, FLEETING, CHAOTIC, AND FORMATIVE IN WAYS THAT LINGER LONG AFTER THE CREDITS ROLL. Still from Trainspotting (1978) Stand by Me Few co

ANOMIE CAUGHT UP WITH DANI-LEE AND BEN, LEAD SINGER AND GUITARIST OF LIVERPOOL BAND KEYSIDE, TO TALK ABOUT TURNING CASUAL JAM SESSIONS INTO A FULL-FLEDGED BAND AND CAPTURING THE REALITIES OF MODERN LIVERPOOL THROUGH THEIR MUSIC. FROM RAW STORYTELLING AND CHEEKY INDIE HOOKS TO SONGS THAT TACKLE ADDICTION, LOSS, AND COMMUNITY, THEIR APPROACH BALANCES HEAVY SUBJECTS WITH MELODIES THAT KEEP PEOPLE MOVING. IN THIS CHAT, THEY REFLECT ON THE MOMENTS THAT SHAPED THEIR SOUND, VIRAL TI

THERE WAS A MOMENT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN MYSPACE TOP EIGHTS, CIGARETTE-DRENCHED AMERICAN APPAREL HOODIES, AND THE LAST GOOD DAYS OF FACEBOOK PHOTO ALBUMS, WHEN INDIE SLEAZE RULED. Skins 1-2 (E4) This was an era before instagram feeds were curated into oblivion, before every artist had a content strategy. Indie sleaze thrived in the in-between: half-documented house parties, chaotic gigs, blurry dance floors where everyone thought they might be in a band. At the centre of it all

IN THE SUMMER OF 1964, A RETIRED SCHOOL BUS LEFT A SMALL TOWN IN CALIFORNIA AND SET OFF ACROSS AMERICA. WHAT FOLLOWED WAS PART ROAD TRIP, PART SOCIAL EXPERIMENT, AND PART CULTURAL MYTH. HOW DID A GROUP OF FRIENDS, A PAINTED SCHOOL BUS, AND A LARGE SUPPLY OF LSD HELP BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN THE BEAT GENERATION AND THE PSYCHEDELIC COUNTERCULTURE THAT FOLLOWED? It began, simply enough, with a practical need. Author Ken Kesey, already known for his 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuc

IN A CITY NOW DEFINED BY SKYROCKETING RENTS AND DIGITAL PROMOTION, ONE FILM ENTHUSIAST CONTINUES TO BUILD COMMUNITY THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY. HOW DID A NETWORK OF SQUATS, BARTER ECONOMIES, AND UNDERGROUND SCREENINGS SHAPE A CULTURAL TRADITION THAT STILL THRIVES QUIETLY IN AMSTERDAM TODAY? Still from The Adventures of Picasso (1978) at one of Babcock's screenings Jeffrey Babcock is a cultural activist and lifelong film obsessive whose story feels inseparable from the underground

IN CONVERSATION W ITH SÃO PAULO DJ, PRODUCER, AND PERFORMER SLIM SOLEDAD, WE DISCUSS HER DEBUT ALBUM NOCHES CALIENTES DE LA SOLEDAD, A RECORD THAT MOVES BETWEEN THE BODY ON THE DANCEFLOOR AND SOMETHING FAR MORE PERSONAL. ROOTED IN BRAZIL’S UNDERGROUND, SLIM REFLECTS ON CHAOS, FUNK, AND THE SOUND OF THE CITY SHAPING HER MUSIC, ALONGSIDE COLLABORATIONS WITH SOME OF BRAZIL’S MOST VITAL CULTURAL VOICES. WE ALSO TALK ABOUT COMMUNITY, TRANS-LED PARTIES THROUGH THE CHERNOBYL COLLECT

MOVING BETWEEN BARS, DANCE FLOORS, AND CROWDED STREETS WHERE MOST OF THE NIGHTLIFE HAPPENS OUTSIDE, SITTING OVER CHEAP TEA AND SHISHA UNTIL THE EARLY MORNING. Kadıköy 22:47. We get on the ferry without thinking too much about it. It’s the easiest way to start the night, a slow crossing over to the European side of the old city. The air is heavy and warm, carrying the smell of salt and diesel from the water below. Most people have already started their chain-smoking for the ni

IN CONVERSATION WITH DJ, PRODUCER, AND LUMIÈRE NOIRE FOUNDER CHLOÉ, WE EXPLORE THE SPACES, PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, AND SONIC, THAT HAVE SHAPED HER EVOLUTION AS AN ARTIST. FROM THE INTIMACY OF PARISIAN CLUBS TO THE SHIFTING ENERGIES OF DANCEFLOORS ACROSS EUROPE, SHE REFLECTS ON CONNECTION, ADAPTABILITY, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF CREATING TENSION AND RELEASE, REGARDLESS OF ROOM SIZE. HER FORTHCOMING DISTORTED DANCE EP DISTILLS THESE IDEAS INTO SOMETHING UNAPOLOGETICALLY PHYSICAL: ANAL

WE SIT DOWN WITH AMSTERDAM-BASED DJ AND PRODUCER STEF DE HAAN TO TALK ABOUT BUILDING A SOUND, STARTING A PARTY FROM SCRATCH, AND CREATING SPACES WHERE PEOPLE CAN FEEL FREE. FROM LOCKING HIMSELF IN A BUNGALOW DURING COVID TO LEARN TO DJ, TO THROWING ILLEGAL RAVES THAT EVOLVED INTO THE COMMUNITY-DRIVEN PARTY DE REÜNIE, HIS PATH INTO THE SCENE HAS BEEN LESS ABOUT STRATEGY AND MORE ABOUT INSTINCT. IN THIS CONVERSATION, HE TALKS ABOUT ENERGY ON THE DANCEFLOOR, THE IMPORTANCE OF SA

IN AN ERA WHERE THE ALGORITHM EXPECTS ARTISTS TO BE CONSTANTLY VISIBLE, SOME MUSICIANS ARE CHOOSING TO STEP BACK INSTEAD OF LEANING IN. WHY, IN A CULTURE OF ENDLESS EXPOSURE, HAS GOING ANONYMOUS STARTED TO FEEL LESS LIKE A GIMMICK AND MORE LIKE A FORM OF SELF-PRESERVATION? Esdeekid & Timothee Chalamet In a day and age when social media is king, everyone is hypervisible. So why disappear? Artists have never been more present in our day to day life. You can switch from their in

COUCOU! WE CAUGHT UP WITH ICONIC FRENCH 00’S BAND THE TEENAGERS TO DISCUSS PLAYING COACHELLA, HAVING THE KARDASHIANS AS FANS, AND PARTYING HARD IN THE MYSPACE ERA. THEIR DEBUT AND ONLY ALBUM REALITY CHECK BECAME AN INDIE SLEAZE CULT CLASSIC. NOW, THEY’RE REFLECTING ON THE PAST WHILE PREPARING TO RELEASE NEW MUSIC. A gig in 2009 ANOMIE : Hi Dorian! With the rise of social media like TikTok and Instagram, and a bit of hindsight, the era of indie sleaze is being romanticised as

WE CAUGHT UP WITH THE RIONS BACKSTAGE AR THE FINAL GIG OF THEIR EU/UK TOUR TO TALK ABOUT TURNING MESSY FEELINGS INTO MUSIC, SAYING THE UNSAID, AND HOW IT FEELS TO IMMORTALISE YOUR EARLY TWENTIES ON A DEBUT ALBUM. FROM SONGS THAT SKIRT THE EDGE OF OVER-SHARING AND THE COMEDOWN OF LIFE AFTER TOUR, TO TIKTOK AND PUB FOOD, WE DIVE INTO VULNERABILITY, GROWING UP TOGETHER, AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE FRIENDS FIRST WHILE THE WORLD AROUND THEM GETS BIGGER, LOUDER AND A LOT MORE REAL. Ash

WE SAT DOWN WITH AZYR, ONE OF THE MOST EXPLOSIVE NEW NAMES IN THE GLOBAL HARD TECHNO LANDSCAPE, TO TALK ABOUT BEDROOM BEGINNINGS DURING LOCKDOWN, THE RISE OF A SOUND BUILT FOR SWEAT-SOAKED DANCEFLOORS, AND HOW A BOILER ROOM SET IN MANCHESTER CHANGED EVERYTHING. FROM FREE BLACKPOOL PARTIES TO CLOSING STAGES AT GLASTONBURY AND AWAKENINGS, HIS JOURNEY HAS BEEN FAST, FULL-THROTTLE, AND UNAPOLOGETICALLY HIS OWN. IN THIS INTERVIEW FOR ANOMIE DURING ADE, WE GET INTO THE MOMENTS THA

CHARLIE SPARKS HAS SHAPED A TECHNO IDENTITY THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO BOX IN. FROM DISCOVERING RAVE CULTURE LATER THAN MOST TO CRAFTING HIS EARLY TRACKS ON A LAPTOP IN HIS BEDROOM, HIS SOUND BECAME A COLLISION OF TRIAL AND ERROR, PLAYFUL POP FLIPS, AND DRIVING, HEAVY TECHNO THAT DOESN'T CHASE TRENDS. WITH HIS DEBUT ALBUM ON THE HORIZON, CHARTING THE HIGHS, LOWS, AND WILD MOMENTUM OF THE LAST THREE YEARS, CHARLIE IS STEPPING INTO A NEW CHAPTER. IN THIS INTERVIEW FOR ANOMIE, HE OPEN