Time To Crossover: Future Art Emerges At Hackney Wicked

Words and photography MATTHEW MILES On the ‘wrong side’ of the Olympic Park blue fence, and hemmed in by a canal and a dual carriageway, the industrial warehouses of Hackney Wick were easy to ignore. Then its creative festival began making some noise – and new trends in art too. With a combination of permanent galleries, pop-up group shows, street performance, music, theatre, stalls and…

Summer Playlist 2025: Fresh, Fierce, and Unstoppable

Summer Playlist 2025: Part I Summer Playlist 2025 (images courtesy of respective artists) Get your playlist ready for Summer with these breakthrough artists we've curated just for you. With fresh releases made with an eye on festival season, they're working on winning hearts across continents. Check out our Summer Playlist 2025 and let us know if any of them won yours! AJII…

FORWARDS Festival 2025 Adds Pa Salieu, Nilufer Yanya and Jamz Supernova to Lineup

FORWARDS Festival 2025 As summer festivals go, FORWARDS has quickly carved out a name for itself on the UK circuit, known for bold line-ups and an emphasis on local talent. Now, with its final wave of 2025 acts revealed, the Bristol-based festival looks set to end the season on a strong and distinctly FAULTLess note. Taking over Clifton Downs on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 August, FORWARDS…

Rob Tirea in Conversation with FAULT Magazine

Rob Tirea Images courtesy of Rob Tirea Rob Tirea is an electronic artist whose soaring vocals and attention to detail elevate him from the current wave of emerging DJs and EDM producers. A self-confessed overthinker, the OC (Orange County), California native noticeably puts an enormous effort into crafting unique soundscapes identifiable by his signature singing voice. It's an approach…

Mistine Puts Climate Awareness at the Heart of Her Debut Album

Mistine Photo: courtesy of Mistine Gritty guitars, lush synths, and an electronic-pop fusion that feels ripped from the early 2000s, i guess this is where we're at is the striking debut album from rising singer-songwriter Mistine. Across 11 tracks, she laces atmospheric love songs with an undercurrent of environmental consciousness, delivering emotional vulnerability and magnetic sonic…

Evan Fong drops ‘This One’s For Me’, his explosive new single

Evan Fong Image courtesy of Evan Fong Best known to millions as VanossGaming, Evan Fong has long been a force in the world of online content creation. With a staggering 25.9 million YouTube subscribers and a decade of dominance in the gaming space, it would be easy to assume he’d stay in his well-earned lane. But Fong, a multi-hyphenate artist, has other plans. Today, he returns with his…

Jesse Boykins III teams up with Everything Liquid for a breakthrough sound

Jesse Boykins III L: Jesse Boykins III (photo: Thijs Ros)<br> R: Everything Liquid (photo: c/o Everything Liquid) If you’re craving a track that shakes up your electronic playlist, Los Angeles-based brand-new duo Everything Liquid (Matt Ossentjuk and Diego Cuevas) and Grammy-nominated artist, director, and musician Jesse Boykins III have the perfect track for you. Titled 'No…

Anna-My: nomadic DJ and producer drops debut single ‘Memoria’

Anna-My Photo: Sanna Holm Anna-My, the Scandinavian DJ and producer, drops her highly anticipated debut today with synth-heavy nostalgic new single ‘Memoria’. She arrives, via a decade behind the decks in Stockholm, New York and London, with a bold and immersive sound, blending rich electronic textures and bubbling melodic synthesizers. The resulting release pulls you into a sonic world…