All Episodes

72: When is a festival not a festival?

71: Second quarter report – the best music of 2026 so far

70: The true story of real dubstep

69: Your favourite DJ is a psyop

68: Djrum or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Clang

67: Sheffield, Synth City

66: First Quarter Report – the best music of the last three months

65: The indies fight back! Damon Krukowski on the value of sound

64: A new film canon! Rockufiction

63: ⁠Baltimore is still the engine room of US club music

62: Lil Internet changed our minds about AI music

61: Is clubbing really in decline? We asked Ed Gillett

60: A radical vision for club culture with Anjali Prashar-Savoie

59: The best music of 2025

58: Deepfake Jorja and the biggest bangers of the 21st century

57: The second No Tags book is here!

56: Burial whisperer Dan Hancox on grime reunions, the power of crowds and sodcasting

55: One monoculture after another

54: Flags, football shirts and indie nationalism

53: Holly Dicker will be the last hardcore raver standing

52: Will the AI slopwave ruin music for good?

51: The best music of 2025 so far

50: Jeff Weiss is still waiting for Britney Spears

49: When does a simulation become a dystopia?

48: How (not) to run a DIY festival, with Field Maneuvers

47: Free parties, rave theories and a moment with Grace Sands

46: Paul Woolford is peaking

45: What makes the perfect night out?

44: Derrick Gee, the internet's most professional music fan

43: Should dance music boycott Boiler Room over Palestine?

42: Between two hardcores with aya

41: Major labels are hoovering up what's left of independent music

40: All the things Spotify didn't want you to know but Liz Pelly found out

39: Big Beat Cinema²: Bigger, Breaksier, Uncut

38: How umru laid the building blocks of hyperpop

37: Big Beat Cinema

36: God did not intend his creation to go raving in IKEA

35: The best (and worst?) music of 2024

34: Zombie Nation is the artist, not the song

33: The No Tags book is here!

32: Midland is reborn and jamming with Arthur Russell

31: No tags and it's completely different but also still no tags

30: Amy Lamé, we hardly knew yé

29: Vivian Host has caught every beat

28: Why has the festival bubble burst?

27: What would OK Williams do?

26: What the hell was indie sleaze?

25: Jonny Banger, folk hero and rave lifer

24: The spirit of 2011 is haunting dance music

23: The best music of 2024 so far

22: So what was the sound of Tory Britain?

21: Meaghan Garvey, America's #1 vibes-based journalist

20: Does payola exist in underground music?

19: The expanding universe of Brazilian funk, part 2

18: The expanding universe of Brazilian funk, part 1

17: Fred Again walked so Fish56Octagon could swim

16: Iglooghost, rockpooling for subgenres in a parallel world

15: Learning to love lorecore

14: Simon Reynolds, futuromaniac

13: Cindy Lee, claire rousay and the haunted, horny sound of now

12: Why Vybz Kartel is the most important Jamaican artist of the century

11: Lena Raine and the quest for the cosy web

10: Dr Robin James, vibes philosopher

09: The most important voice in UK radio you've never heard

08: Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson on Dweller and making actual change

07: The Large, soundclash champion turned industry oracle

06: Music journalism, the final farewell tour

05: Jeff Weiss, reporting live from the fall of Rome

04: Are end of year lists over?

03: CCL, international selector of mystery

02: Sorry Records, keepers of the dance music flame

01: JK & Bempah, chronicling UK street music