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Soundcamp digs into the idea of “noise” as a form of solidarity

The artist cooperative explores ideas of shared listening and communality through DIY broadcasts of environmental sound – including field recordings from protests and demonstrations.

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Simple Things completes week-long programme with Moin, John Maus, Autechre and more

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WOS Festival announces first wave of acts for 2025

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A rolling, regularly-updated directory of essential events in the UK, Europe and beyond.

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In Solidarity with Gaza: A Guide to the Music and Resources That Support the Humanitarian Effort

A regularly updated list of releases raising money for the relief effort in Gaza, and a list of resources and organisations doing crucial work on the ground.

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A rolling playlist of the best new music, curated and regularly refreshed by Crack Magazine.

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Soundcamp digs into the idea of “noise” as a form of solidarity

The artist cooperative explores ideas of shared listening and communality through DIY broadcasts of environmental sound – including field recordings from protests and demonstrations.

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24hrs/Palestine is building a global network for collective action and resistance

The anti-imperialist, anti-colonial “global radio action” 24hrs/Palestine strives to demonstrate the interconnectedness of political struggles throughout the world.

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Open’er 2025 through five key performances

Returning with a line-up that spanned rap, pop, and techno and featured some of the biggest names in music, Poland’s Open’er Festival saw standout performances from Little Simz, Fcukers, Doechii, Brutalismus 3000, and Nemzzz.

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Decoder: 10 lessons from the free party scene

‘Free Party: A Folk History’ director Aaron Trinder walks us through the guiding principles and lasting legacies of an often-overlooked chapter of British counterculture.

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Monheim Triennale‘s The Festival was a thrilling rush of borderless collaboration and virtuoso performance

In a programme bursting with top-tier talent from across ‘new music’, a small town in the Rhineland welcomed back 16 visionary artists to develop ideas and deliver their signature projects.

  • Long Reads

“It’s about building a vocabulary”: How Nitin Sawhney created the evocative score for A Tupperware of Ashes

Composer Nitin Sawhney reflects on building the vivid, Bengali-influenced score for Tanika Gupta’s ‘A Tupperware of Ashes’.

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Remi Wolf
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I Saw The TV Glow review Various Artists
I Saw the TV Glow (The Original Soundtrack)
Mount Kimbie
The Sunset Violent
Erika de Casier
Still
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Wall of Eyes
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Robed in Rareness
Mitski
The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
Kylie
Tension
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
The Ones Ahead
Anohni and the Johnsons
My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross
Amaarae
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1977
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Soundcamp digs into the idea of “noise” as a form of solidarity

The artist cooperative explores ideas of shared listening and communality through DIY broadcasts of environmental sound – including field recordings from protests and demonstrations.

  • Profiles

24hrs/Palestine is building a global network for collective action and resistance

The anti-imperialist, anti-colonial “global radio action” 24hrs/Palestine strives to demonstrate the interconnectedness of political struggles throughout the world.

  • Live Reviews

Open’er 2025 through five key performances

Returning with a line-up that spanned rap, pop, and techno and featured some of the biggest names in music, Poland’s Open’er Festival saw standout performances from Little Simz, Fcukers, Doechii, Brutalismus 3000, and Nemzzz.

  • Lists

Decoder: 10 lessons from the free party scene

‘Free Party: A Folk History’ director Aaron Trinder walks us through the guiding principles and lasting legacies of an often-overlooked chapter of British counterculture.

  • Live Reviews

Monheim Triennale‘s The Festival was a thrilling rush of borderless collaboration and virtuoso performance

In a programme bursting with top-tier talent from across ‘new music’, a small town in the Rhineland welcomed back 16 visionary artists to develop ideas and deliver their signature projects.

  • Long Reads

“It’s about building a vocabulary”: How Nitin Sawhney created the evocative score for A Tupperware of Ashes

Composer Nitin Sawhney reflects on building the vivid, Bengali-influenced score for Tanika Gupta’s ‘A Tupperware of Ashes’.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: Kappa FuturFestival 2025

Kappa FuturFestival transformed Turin’s Parco Dora into a techno playground for its 12th edition, with heavyweights like Helena Hauff, Donato Dozzy and Surgeon on the bill.

  • Profiles

Radio alHara: Loud and Clear

Born out of boredom during the first lockdown, Palestinian online station Radio alHara has come to symbolise defiance and hope amid the unimaginable horrors of the Gazan genocide, giving voice to creative resistance in Palestine and across the world.

  • Live Reviews

A rural festival in spirit: LISB-ON 2025

Parkland and pine forests set the scene for the intimate Lisbon festival, where local DJs and 4/4 rhythms took centre stage and after parties spilled out into the city.

  • Long Reads

How Fontaines D.C.‘s biggest show yet came to life on stage

The lighting, production and video designers behind Fontaines D.C.’s monumental Finsbury Park headline show talk two-headed pigs, nu-grunge and lasers at the band’s biggest gig to date.

  • Profiles

The story of bubbling house: how a group of teenagers shaped a genre and never got their dues

The sound of one of the Netherlands’ only homegrown diasporic genres blew up clubs without ever troubling the mainstream. Now, its pioneers are finally getting their dues.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: Block9 at Glastonbury 2025

Genosys, IICON and NYC Downlow returned to Worthy Farm with fierce energy, political fire and a brand-new daytime party.

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Best Nights VC is investing in the future of nightlife

Driven by a belief in the importance of community, club culture and shared experiences, Jägermeister’s Venture Capital Investment Unit is supporting the future-facing tech startups reshaping our social interactions.

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The story and sound of Glastonbury 2025 in 10 standout moments

From powerful political protests to secret sets from Pulp and Lorde, via Doechii’s expectation-busting Glastonbury debut, here are the moments that made this year’s festival one to remember.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: Silver Hayes at Glastonbury 2025

Silver Hayes returned this year with five stages and a stacked programme spanning DJs, artists and speakers.

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Uncle Junior: “We used to get made fun of, but now it’s kind of cool”

Taking cues from noise rock and their post-punk peers, London newcomers Uncle Junior are crafting their own eccentric take on harder-edged sounds.

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In Photos: MEO Kalorama 2025

The fourth edition of the Lisbon festival was lit up by standout performances from FKA twigs, Model/Actriz, and Helena Hauff.

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Meet five DJs making their Block9 debut at Glastonbury this weekend

NYC Downlow, IICON and Genosys are about to be taken over by a wild cocktail of dance music from the South East Corner’s newest arrivals. 

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