“It’s an allegory for the world falling apart“ – Dua Saleh on their necessary new record

“I honestly feel like I had died and I was born again” – Tess Parks’ new album happened for a reason

Bande á Part’s debut track is a portrait of artistic chaos

What’s your favourite scary movie? Malice K selects grisly road trip film Dead End

Icons of horror: John Carpenter in conversation with Claudio Simonetti

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Saint Laurent have reworked John Carpenter’s legendary horror soundtracks

Cobrasnake documents wild times at Miami’s III Points festival

Video Premiere: Gold Star’s emotive tale of America’s troubled opioid crisis

HERO Fiction: Figs by Scott Lavene

“Art is a reflection of life” – Kofi Stone’s new album explores his most authentic self

Sibling duo Wasia Project like to travel through time and space

“I was having vivid nightmares” – Sophie Thatcher’s debut EP is dark and beautiful

“I was always obsessed with trying to bring out an idea of the creature” – inside the twisted world of Malice K

Pip Millett takes us through five references she always goes back to

“Play it at my funeral” – New Zealand’s Lucian Rice cuts us a playlist to die for

You can now store your camera and records in Celine

“It’s a beautiful thing to be part of this debauched community” – October and the Eyes are at the centre of something special

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Interplanetary Criminal wants his music to sound like home