Christine and the Queens

As we hit the halfway mark on the year, here are some musical gems -- released from January to June -- that may have slipped under your radar.

Christine just dropped a surprise EP called 'La vita nuova' and made a film to go with it.

“People, I’ve been sad”... and everything else you need to hear this week.

Featuring Charli XCX, Chris, Hayley Kiyoko, King Princess and more. Get into it.

It's your two fave queens -- in conversation, exclusively for i-D.

Chris, the latest incarnation of Héloïse Letissier’s Christine and the Queens, is hungrier, angrier, hornier, and wanting more.

Plus!! Everything else you need to hear today in one killer playlist.

From A$AP Rocky and Charli XCX to Christine and the Queens and Damon Albarn, Alex Crossan has shed himself of genre boundaries for his hotly anticipated debut LP. Here, he talks i-D through how each track came to be.

Alongside the wonderful Diana Ross, Abba, Gloria Gaynor, Judy Garland, and Lady Gaga, we decided to update our dusty Queer jukebox with some modern alt classics.

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Dedicating three of the six music stages to emerging artists, Latitude is the perfect festival to discover new music. i-D caught up with fresh talent we knew we loved, and found unexpected gems under the canopy of Henham Park's magical pine forest.

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