Posts by Crack Staff (@crackmagazine)

New festival Wanderlust is coming to Southampton

The indie and alternative all-day, multi-venue event will be held on 4 May. A new…

Pop Zone: Club Eat

New York’s Club Eat come through with a “fun, flirty and all over the place pop mix”

Arca announced to play Dour Festival 2024

The Belgian festival, taking place from 17-21 July, has added 30 more names to its line-up

Tadleeh

Travelling through dub, techno, breaks and more, Tadleeh transports us straight to the club with an atmospheric and bass-driven mix – just ahead of the weekend

Applications open for SHAPE+ 2024/2025

The innovative music and visual arts platform has shared an open call for its next working period

ML Buch, DJ Marcelle and Mount Kimbie announced for RALLY 2024

The community-driven arts and music festival returns for its second edition this August bank holiday weekend

Jurango

Following his recent EP on Livity Sound, the Bristol-based DJ, producer and PTS resident pays tribute the dancefloor memories he’s formed playing out over the past few years, featuring some of his “‘go-to’ club selections”

Sarahsson, The Bug and Ryoji Ikeda to play Bristol New Music

The fifth edition of the biennial festival will take place at various venues across Bristol from 25-28 April

Kappa FuturFestival completes 2024 line-up

The Italian house and techno event has shared its third wave announcement including KI/KI, DJ Nobu b2b Aurora Halal, Blond:ish and Skream b2b Seth Troxler

NOS Alive announces more names for 2024

The Portuguese festival returns to Oeiras for its 16th edition from 11-13 July 2024

Sunday Mix: Maya Shenfeld

The Berlin-based composer taps into an otherworldly spatial and temporal expansion with today’s Sunday Mix, making for a transcendent and contemplative listen

100% Dubs: Mixed by Dr Dubplate

Staying true to the name, today Dr Dubplate comes through with a strictly dub mix – giving us a taste of forthcoming ec2a, Hardline and Untitled releases. Get locked in

Pirate’s Residency programme returns for 2024

The talent development programme is open to bands, solo artists and DJs based in the UK, US, Germany and Ireland

Sales of the Fontaines D.C., Massive Attack and Young Fathers Ceasefire EP end tomorrow

Proceeds from the release are being donated to Doctors Without Borders to support their work in Gaza and the West Bank

LCD Soundsystem and Loyle Carner to headline Forwards Festival 2024

The Bristol event has shared its first wave announcement for this year, which will take place on Clifton Downs on 31 August and 1 September

Jayda G, Fatboy Slim and Palms Trax confirmed for Brunch Electronik Festival

The electronic music festival returns to Barcelona for its second edition from 9-11 August

Bapari

Following on from their recent EP on Halcyon Veil, Bapari comes through with bass-heavy club heat and taps into the emotive, textural depth at the centre of their craft. Play this one loud

Lao curates a guide to understanding the NAAFI sound

For today’s Selections playlist the label co-founder, DJ and producer some of his “favourite tracks to understand the NAAFI sound as part of the deconstructed and leftfield club music of the 2010s”

SON Estrella Galicia to host event in Brighton

The micro-festival will be held at The Prince Albert on 23 March

How To Have Sex to be taught in schools via the Schools Consent Project

MUBI is partnering with the film’s director, Molly Manning Walker, and the Schools Consent Project to show the film along with workshops on consent

Sunday Mix: David August

“I tried to keep things easy for the uneasy times we live in,” David August says of today’s Sunday Mix, which features tracks from Ryuichi Sakamoto, Onipa, Coby Sey, Rainy Miller and Space Afrika

Dour Festival shares third wave of artists for this year’s edition

Ice Spice, Amnesia Scanner and VTSS are amongst the new names added to the line-up for the Belgian festival’s 2024 edition

Loraine James, Crystallmess and Arushi Jain confirmed for Rewire 2024

The interdisciplinary arts, music and culture festival has announced its third wave of artists for this year’s edition, taking place from 4-7 April in The Hague

François X

Just in time for the weekend, the XX Lab boss comes through with gloriously relentless, peak-time club heat. Get stuck in

Nuits Sonores completes night programme

The electronic music festival returns for its flagship Lyon event from 7-12 May

Eliza Rose, GIDEÖN and Jamz Supernova to join House Against Hate demo

The R3 Soundsystem mobile protest will take place in London on 16 March as part of the United Nations Anti Racism Day Demonstration

New Bristol-based queer radio station to launch at Strange Brew tomorrow night

Announced in November of last year (2023), Kunt Up Music.FM (abbreviated to K.U.M FM) launches tomorrow (22 February) with a club night at Strange Brew. The lineup includes peoplelikeusdj, Dani Whylie and Ohana.

Sevdaliza, VTSS and Laurel Halo join Sónar 2024 line-up

The Barcelona event has announced the remaining names for its 31st edition, taking place from 13-15 June 2024

Kiss Nuka

The Mumbai creative polymath and activist provides an “earthy, sweaty, ravey” mix ahead of playing Dialled In at Southbank Centre next month

Tracing 10 years of Simple Things Festival’s visual world

Ahead of the Bristol festival’s much-anticipated return and decade anniversary celebrations we talk to some of the creatives behind Simple Things’ iconic visual identity, from photographers capturing the live moments on the ground to the designers steering its artistic evolution