On her début album Both, the musician and actor Kaya Wilkins explores identity and duality while combining forthright, honest lyrics with dance-ready synths and campy grooves.

The upstart label and international media collective is carving out a place for Asians in the increasingly diverse world of hip-hop, tackling questions of cultural appropriation and ownership head on.

At just sixteen and with six million Instagram followers and counting, the dark pop prodigy is maturing as we watch into a star for our times with her confrontational, subversive songs and badass, confident attitude.

After getting his start playing with GarageBand on his iPad at the age of twelve, Ethan Snoreck has found fame through SoundCloud; collaborated with Dua Lipa, Charli XCX, and Oh Wonder; and made a viral sensation at Coachella all before his twentieth birthday.

After ten years of only models on our covers, our new issue has four covers featuring actors Olivia Cooke and Ashton Sanders and musician Billie Eilish alongside model Adut Akech.

The BBC Sound of 2018 finalist crafts tuneful songs that speak to social anxieties and political issues from existentialism and government surveillance to misogyny and generational divides.

On her début album Lush, the nineteen-year-old Lindsey Jordan pulls from decades of indie rock in songs that feel both instantly relatable and enticingly specific as they point the way forward for the genre.

On her début studio album Clean, the young musician explores anxieties and self-doubt, reminding that life and love aren’t safe or easy as she stakes out a place at the forefront of female rock.

The soulful British rocker recounts love and loneliness in his early twenties on a début album that helps complete his transition from an “ordinary guy from Bedford” to an Elton John-approved musician.