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The October issue is here. Featuring Sasha Keable, Blawan, Lucrecia Dalt, Brighter Days Family, TTSSFU, and more.
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  • The perfect day at Simple Things: A Crack Magazine guide

  • Ziúr and Iggor Cavalera on community, resistance and belonging beyond borders

  • Mucho Flow 2025 through five key performances

  • Moonchild Sanelly on movement, ritual and reconnecting with nature

  • Semibreve celebrated fifteen years of experimental sound in Braga

  • We asked a classical music expert to break down Rosalía’s Berghain

  • Listen to a playlist celebrating the vibrant and diverse sounds of Miami, selected by Nick León

  • TTSSFU makes music for messy nights and messier mornings after

  • Live from Nuits sonores 2025: Listen to the mix series

  • Lucrecia Dalt: "I’m not fearing genre. I’m not fearing a lot”

  • Decoding the hypnotic staging and choreography in Mitski: The Land

  • Beneath the surface: Listen to a playlist inspired by unseen worlds, dark rivers and hidden landscapes, selected by Tristwch Y Fenywod

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Ziúr and Iggor Cavalera on community, resistance and belonging beyond borders

Ahead of their performances at Le Guess Who? Festival this weekend, experimental artist Ziúr and metal legend Iggor Cavalera discuss life-changing music and life-affirming connections.

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Music & Music Festivals as Change Drivers releases a new video featuring Luna Ersahin

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Tickets for Field Maneuvers 2026 are now live

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SHAPE+ Platform affiliates SWAI unveil new music video for their track Globoko

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Don Julio and Gabbriette are throwing a Día de Muertos party inside a London bakery

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Mix With The Masters is offering five new masterclasses before the end of 2025

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Badaboum releases concert programme for 2025/2026 season

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Dolby to showcase immersive sound design across two locations at ADE 2025

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Jen Cardini and AEG Presents France announce the inaugural Nightclubbing Festival in Paris

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Polifonic Milano announces line-up and concept for 2025

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Le Guess Who? releases full concert film of Darkside’s 2024 festival performance

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Ableton Live 12 Suite is now available on rent-to-own

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Festival Guide 2025

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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⌘R: The Best New Music, curated by Crack Magazine

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

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Ziúr and Iggor Cavalera on community, resistance and belonging beyond borders

Ahead of their performances at Le Guess Who? Festival this weekend, experimental artist Ziúr and metal legend Iggor Cavalera discuss life-changing music and life-affirming connections.

  • Long Reads

Mucho Flow 2025 through five key performances

Delivering on its promise to spotlight cutting-edge avant-garde sounds, Mucho Flow’s artfully curated 12th edition honed in on left-field pop, atmospheric shoegaze and experimental noise.

  • Long Reads

Semibreve celebrated fifteen years of experimental sound in Braga

For 2025, Braga’s long-running experimental music festival deepened its conceptual focus on listening as a communal creative act.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: Llais Festival 2025

The arts festival returned to the Wales Millennium Centre with a week-long programme of live music from the likes of Mabe Fratti, Meredith Monk and Beverly-Glenn Copeland.

  • Profiles

Moonchild Sanelly on movement, ritual and reconnecting with nature

For the third and final episode of ReRooted – a video series exploring artists’ connection to nature – The South African musician heads to Eastbourne’s coast for a sound sampling session by the sea.

  • Long Reads

The perfect day at Simple Things: A Crack Magazine guide

Bristol’s venue-hopping all-dayer returns this Saturday, 8 November with a programme co-curated by Crack Magazine, Team Love, and the Bristol Beacon. From Nala Sinephro to Steve Davis, here are our top picks for the day.

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Circuit des Yeux
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Central Cee
'Can't Rush Greatness'
Shigeto
Cherry Blossom Baby
Nídia and Valentina
Estradas
Beabadoobee
'This Is How Tomorrow Moves'
Remi Wolf
Big Ideas
$uicideboy$
'New World Depression'
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
The Smile
Wall of Eyes
Shabazz Palaces
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
Fountain Baby
Bar Italia
Tracey Denim
Avalon Emerson & the Charm
Avalon Emerson & the Charm
Yaeji
With a Hammer
μ-Ziq
1977
boygenius
the record
Yves Tumor
Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
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  • Long Reads

Ziúr and Iggor Cavalera on community, resistance and belonging beyond borders

Ahead of their performances at Le Guess Who? Festival this weekend, experimental artist Ziúr and metal legend Iggor Cavalera discuss life-changing music and life-affirming connections.

  • Long Reads

Mucho Flow 2025 through five key performances

Delivering on its promise to spotlight cutting-edge avant-garde sounds, Mucho Flow’s artfully curated 12th edition honed in on left-field pop, atmospheric shoegaze and experimental noise.

  • Long Reads

Semibreve celebrated fifteen years of experimental sound in Braga

For 2025, Braga’s long-running experimental music festival deepened its conceptual focus on listening as a communal creative act.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: Llais Festival 2025

The arts festival returned to the Wales Millennium Centre with a week-long programme of live music from the likes of Mabe Fratti, Meredith Monk and Beverly-Glenn Copeland.

  • Profiles

Moonchild Sanelly on movement, ritual and reconnecting with nature

For the third and final episode of ReRooted – a video series exploring artists’ connection to nature – The South African musician heads to Eastbourne’s coast for a sound sampling session by the sea.

  • Long Reads

The perfect day at Simple Things: A Crack Magazine guide

Bristol’s venue-hopping all-dayer returns this Saturday, 8 November with a programme co-curated by Crack Magazine, Team Love, and the Bristol Beacon. From Nala Sinephro to Steve Davis, here are our top picks for the day.

  • Long Reads

We asked a classical music expert to break down Rosalía’s Berghain

Musician, broadcaster and ‘So, Hear Me Out’ host Linton Stephens unpacks the classical influences and references on Rosalía’s new single, ‘Berghain’.

  • Profiles

TTSSFU makes music for messy nights and messier mornings after

TTSSFU, a.k.a. Wigan-born, Manchester-based Tasmin Stephens, situates her bratty alt-rock firmly in the unchecked messiness of life in your twenties: romance, friendship and, of course, regrettable nights out.

  • Long Reads

Listen to a playlist celebrating the vibrant and diverse sounds of Miami, selected by Nick León

Welcome back to Selections, a series of artist-curated playlists from those in the know.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: Einhundert’s CODE.SWITCH

Einhundert’s three-day exploration of the club experience offered an insight into the creative process of some of electronic music’s top producers.

  • Mixes

Live from Nuits sonores: Justine Perry b2b Paula Koski

At the 2025 edition of Nuits sonores, Berlin-based heavyweights Justine Perry and Paula Koski delivered an hour of fast-paced, hypnotic and trippy techno built for peak-time carnage in the summer rain.

  • Mixes

Live from Nuits sonores: TSVI b2b Surusinghe

London-based DJs TSVI and Surusinghe came together at this year’s Nuits sonores for an evening of unpredictable percussive chaos, blending bass, techno, dembow and UK garage for a set built for the peak hours of the night. 

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Live from Nuits sonores: Helena Hauff b2b DJ MELL G

Former Crack Magazine cover star Helena Hauff and electro and breakbeat visionary DJ MELL G came together for an exchange of “dark grooves, broken rhythms, and unexpected moments” at this year’s edition of Nuits sonores Festival.

  • Long Reads

Live from Nuits sonores 2025: Listen to the mix series

Listen to three key sets from the 2025 edition of Nuits sonores: Helena Hauff b2b DJ MELL G, Justine Perry b2b Paula Koski, and TSVI b2b Surusinghe.

  • Long Reads

Beneath the surface: Listen to a playlist inspired by unseen worlds, dark rivers and hidden landscapes, selected by Tristwch Y Fenywod

Welcome back to Selections, a series of artist-curated playlists from those in the know.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: Lunchmeat Festival 2025

Lunchmeat Festival returned to Prague for its 16th edition with artists including Heith, Rainy Miller and Danny L Harle.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: MOGA Festival 2025

Across five days, MOGA Festival transformed the Moroccan coastal city of Essaouira into a sanctuary for electronic exploration. 

  • Profiles

Lucrecia Dalt: “I’m not fearing genre. I’m not fearing a lot”

After a health scare forced Lucrecia Dalt to reassess her usually high-velocity life, the experimental composer discovered both obsession and creative liberation in the stillness making her new album, ‘A Danger to Ourselves’.

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