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  • The music school built from grief

    The music school built from grief

    In April 2003, Nicole Yap lost her sister. Within five months, she opened a music school – one that, over two decades later, still carries her sister’s presence within it There is a photograph that Nicole Yap keeps in her mind, though not one you’d find in an album. It is April 2003, and her…

  • Beyond the bass: inside London’s rave culture

    Beyond the bass: inside London’s rave culture

    For London’s young ravers, the dancefloor is more than a night out, offering a space to connect and step outside the pressures of everyday life. The bass arrives before the music fully takes shape, travelling through the concrete floor of an underground warehouse, rising through the soles of your shoes before the melody properly lands.…

  • Zara Larsson’s top nine most-streamed songs

    Zara Larsson’s top nine most-streamed songs

    Ten years on from her global breakthrough, the Swedish pop star is back where she belongs – at the top of the charts. Zara Larsson is one of pop’s most consistent hitmakers of the past decade. Breaking through globally with Lush Life in 2015, the Swedish singer built a catalogue of sleek, high-impact pop that…