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Annelies co-founded Coda Photos in 2022 and TREACLE in 2026. She shoots from the pit and writes about what happens around it.

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Latest · 8 Oct 2026

Six songs for Attenborough, and the fans who sang them

JADE's "Into The Deep (Seas Cry)" is the newest song Hans Zimmer has made for a BBC nature series. The first one, nine years ago, was also about Blue Planet. We look back at all of them, with photos from the shows where we met four of the voices.

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24 Sept 2026

Genesis Owusu has won Album of the Year twice. Now his third album is nominated.

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15 Sept 2026

Nobody owes you a photo pass. Here is how to ask for one anyway.

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Wild Wild Women: "If the hunger dies, you die"

India's first all-female hip-hop collective spent this summer on their most extensive European run yet, ending at Sziget. MC Mahila, one of the five, on how it started at a cypher in Mumbai, what it cost to get there, and why nobody in the group writes anybody else's verse.

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Tabitha performing at Femmazing Amsterdam — Photo: Annelies Vollmuller

8 Sept 2026 · Femmazing

Seven years, 100,000 women, and a dancefloor without fear

Femmazing filled two stages at IJland on Saturday without putting a single man on either bill. That is not a booking quirk. It is the whole argument.

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24 Aug 2026

Culling 1,200 frames in 90 minutes

Our actual workflow. Lightroom flags, the two-pass system, and how to deliver a final set to an editor by 1am after a midnight show.

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18 Aug 2026

From Tunis to Sziget: "our sound belongs on those big international stages"

Illbucks won a place on a European festival stage, brought his band from Tunis to Budapest, and played Sziget with them behind him. The Tunisian rapper, singer and producer on the set, the crowd and what he was watching when he was not on stage.

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30 Jul 2026

Gut Genug, explained: why the KitschKrieg hook will not leave your head (and now Skepta is on it)

Du bist gut genuuuug. Once you have heard it, it stays. Why the KitschKrieg, Blumengarten and Shirin David hook refuses to leave your head, and what a Skepta verse does to it.

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23 Jul 2026

Sziget for first-timers: the island festival, explained

Five days on an island in the middle of Budapest, running 11 to 15 August. What Sziget actually is, and what to know before your first one.

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21 Jul 2026

What is a festival secret set, and how to actually catch one

Surprise shows, fake names, TBA slots on the clashfinder. Here is how secret sets actually work, and how to be in the right field at the right time.

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18 Jul 2026

Sorting cans between sets: what volunteering at Roskilde Festival is actually like

Roskilde runs on around 27,000 volunteers, and every krone of profit goes to charity. We asked one of them, 23-year-old Maxi from Germany, what that looks like from behind the pant station.

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13 Jul 2026

Flea has a jazz band now, and it just played North Sea Jazz

The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist brought Flea and the Honora Band to the 50th North Sea Jazz on Saturday night, playing trumpet, not bass.

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4 Jul 2026

Ken Carson at Roskilde 2026: hype and chaos

Hours before xperiment dropped, Ken Carson turned the Arena tent into strobes, smoke and fire.

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27 Jun 2026

Daisy Chain Fields: Olivia Rodrigo's all-women festival sold out in 30 minutes, and nobody is getting paid

An all-women bill, every artist playing for free, all the money going to women's and girls' charities. Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields revives Lilith Fair for one day in Irvine, and it sold out in 30 minutes.

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24 Jun 2026

You Never Take Me to Bangladesh: How a 49-Second Song Took Over the Internet

A 49-second song about a country it is not really about took over TikTok. Here is why it spread, who is remixing it, and what people think it means.

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18 Jun 2026

Yseult's Now or Never is a love letter to survival

I let Spotify do the work and stopped chasing music videos. Then Yseult's Now or Never, all 80s sound and red leather, pulled me back in.

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10 Jun 2026

Ten Queer Artists, one Pride Month

Ten queer artists we've photographed, from Chappell Roan to Peaches and Gossip: our Pride Month 2026 list, with the songs and quotes that say it best.

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8 Jun 2026

The FIFA World Cup 2026 album: 8 tracks from artists we've seen live

Eight cuts from the biggest World Cup soundtrack yet, all from artists we’ve already sweated for in festival pits and city venues across Europe.

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Charli XCX silhouetted against a green and yellow backdrop, Roskilde 2025 — Photo: Annelies Vollmuller

7 Jun 2026

Charli XCX puts Cale, Jacobs and Scorsese on her album cover, instead of herself.

Music, Fashion, Film drops 24 July. The cover, shot by Aidan Zamiri, frames the title's three categories with one figure each. We shot Charli at Sziget last summer.

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5 Jun 2026

Body to Body. The Sam Tompkins song you already feel you know.

Sam Tompkins road-tested Body to Body at a secret Hoxton Hall show in April. Hearing the studio version now, it lands like a song you somehow already knew.

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5 Jun 2026

Dance first, film later. Since 2017.

Solomun has been quietly running phones-down Sundays at Pacha Ibiza since 2017. Now the rest of the industry is catching up, and it changes what the pictures are worth.

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28 May 2026

The night my screen died: shooting Jungle in the rain

Fifteen minutes of Jungle in the rain with a dead camera screen. What you do when you have to shoot blind, and why the take still made it home.

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19 May 2026

Roskilde 2026: Why we keep coming back

A festival run as a non-profit since 1971, with sustainability you can see and art that makes you stop walking. Why Roskilde keeps earning the trip back, and why this year might be the one to put on your list.

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21 Jan 2026

Exposure when the lights are doing the work

Manual mode, ISO floors, and why your camera's meter is lying to you under stage lighting. Notes on nailing exposure when the lights are doing the work.

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