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Crystallmess curates a playlist ranging from high-energy heaters to introspective cuts

Featuring tracks from Badsista, RP Boo, Nkisi, Coby Sey, Iceboy Violet and more

News

Clark releases new track Medicine featuring Thom Yorke

News

Underground Resistance, Cakes Da Killa and Four Tet announced for Glastonbury’s Block9

News

Courtesy announces debut album, fra eufori, with cover of Chicane’s Saltwater

News

Barbie soundtrack to feature Charli XCX, PinkPantheress, Tame Impala and Ryan Gosling

News

Kappa Futur Festival announces digital art programme for 2023

News

Tina Turner has died, aged 83

News

The Warehouse Project announces opening events for 2023 season

Zoë Mc Pherson by Lucie Rox

News

Evian Christ, Slikback and Zoë Mc Pherson confirmed for Lunchmeat Festival 2023

News

Julio Bashmore releases new single Bubblin on Local Action

News

Slauson Malone 1, Nihiloxica and Armand Hammer confirmed for Le Guess Who?

News

Manchester International Festival announces line-up for open-air stage

News

slowthai has been charged with rape

Ukraine flag blowing in the wind

Long Reads

Resource list: How to support the people of Ukraine

Across the music industry, artists, labels and platforms are donating funds to help support the people of Ukraine. Here’s a list of resources, with links to charities and organisations

Playlists

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

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

Long Reads

Crystallmess curates a playlist ranging from high-energy heaters to introspective cuts

Featuring tracks from Badsista, RP Boo, Nkisi, Coby Sey, Iceboy Violet and more

Profiles

Reorganised fun: Big Dyke Energy are the party community dancing into a brighter future for festivals and queer spaces

Ahead of a jam-packed summer of raving, from a stop at London’s GALA to their first-ever festival, we catch up with BDE’s Elliott and Melo to discuss the story behind the party community

Mixes

upsammy

For her Crack Mix, upsammy taps into the more “percussive and clubby side” of her sound, filled with “adventurous rhythms with playful high frequencies, eccentric kicks and ambiguous tones”

Lists

Books on the Blues: A reading list by Samson Kambalu

The Oxford-based artist, academic and writer walks us through eight texts that, in their own ways, tell a story about blues music, its evolution and its trailblazers

Long Reads

Nukuluk curate an eclectic playlist of tracks that have inspired them

Featuring aya, Tricky, Richard Dawson, Wu-Lu, Nilufer Yanya and more

Long Reads

Usher in the summer with a new playlist from DJ Spit

The Berlin-based DJ dabbles in “lots of positive emotions with a good portion of euphoria” for his club-ready Selections

Mixes

Pop Zone: Stella Explorer

Take a trip through the rising Stockholm artist’s formative years on our latest Pop Zone set. This one hits like a sugar rush

Album Reviews

Bar Italia
Tracey Denim

Avalon Emerson & the Charm
Avalon Emerson & the Charm

Yaeji
With a Hammer

boygenius
the record

Yves Tumor
Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

100 gecs
10,000 gecs

Fever Ray
Radical Romantics

Various Artists
A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto – To the Moon and Back

Special Interest
Endure

Theo Parrish
DJ-Kicks: Detroit Forward

Shygirl
Nymph

Slipknot
The End, So Far

The Comet Is Coming
Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam

Vieux Farka Touré and Khruangbin
Ali

Rina Sawayama
Hold the Girl

Crack Cloud
Tough Baby

Jockstrap
I Love You Jennifer B

George Riley
Running in Waves

Sudan Archives
Natural Brown Prom Queen

Sarah Davachi
Two Sisters

Aitch
Close to Home

Danger Mouse & Black Thought
Cheat Codes

Long Reads

Crystallmess curates a playlist ranging from high-energy heaters to introspective cuts

Featuring tracks from Badsista, RP Boo, Nkisi, Coby Sey, Iceboy Violet and more

Profiles

Reorganised fun: Big Dyke Energy are the party community dancing into a brighter future for festivals and queer spaces

Ahead of a jam-packed summer of raving, from a stop at London’s GALA to their first-ever festival, we catch up with BDE’s Elliott and Melo to discuss the story behind the party community

Mixes

upsammy

For her Crack Mix, upsammy taps into the more “percussive and clubby side” of her sound, filled with “adventurous rhythms with playful high frequencies, eccentric kicks and ambiguous tones”

Lists

Books on the Blues: A reading list by Samson Kambalu

The Oxford-based artist, academic and writer walks us through eight texts that, in their own ways, tell a story about blues music, its evolution and its trailblazers

Long Reads

Nukuluk curate an eclectic playlist of tracks that have inspired them

Featuring aya, Tricky, Richard Dawson, Wu-Lu, Nilufer Yanya and more

Long Reads

Usher in the summer with a new playlist from DJ Spit

The Berlin-based DJ dabbles in “lots of positive emotions with a good portion of euphoria” for his club-ready Selections

Mixes

Pop Zone: Stella Explorer

Take a trip through the rising Stockholm artist’s formative years on our latest Pop Zone set. This one hits like a sugar rush

The Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto

Lists

Life, works and legacy: 10 artists on Ryuichi Sakamoto and his everlasting impact

Musicians, contemporaries and longtime collaborators pay their tributes to the late Ryuichi Sakamoto – an artist like no other. Featuring Ninja Tune’s Coldcut, Fennesz, Dennis Bovell MBE, anu, Midori Hirano and more

Live Reviews

Voyage of discovery: Intonal Festival 2023 through five standout moments

Music and memories from the Sweden festival, featuring Bendik Giske, Valentina Magaletti, Laaraji and more

Mixes

Sunday Mix: mmph

Motivational Sunday sounds from LA-based composer and SVBKVLT affiliate mmph. Featuring Marina Herlop, Holy Other and Malibu, plus some unreleased material

Mixes

GALA: Richard Akingbehin

Ahead of his b2b with Amaliah at London’s GALA Festival next weekend, Richard Akingbehin brings the smooth house grooves, blissed out reggae and dub cuts

Profiles

Experiments in the art of living: Don and Moki Cherry’s Organic Music

Ahead of Terraforma 2023, festival co-founder Ruggero Pietromarchi speaks with Blank Forms’ Lawrence Kumpf and Naima Karlsson about Don and Moki’s work and their Organic Music

Long Reads

Pretty Girl on the music that inspired her One Night, One Time EP

The Steel City Dance Discs signee gives us the lowdown on the music that inspired her dreamy April-released EP

Mixes

Akanbi

“Deep time traveling music, dubbed-out goodies, high-octane, whip-crack bangers and more” inside this invigorating mix from GROOVY GROOVY’s Akanbi

Album Reviews

Bar Italia: Tracey Denim review

Keeping faith with the halcyon days of pensive, mid-90s US slacker rock, Bar Italia’s scuzzy third album is right at home on the label that helped propel the sound the first time around

Long Reads

In Photos: The Great Escape 2023

Relive last week’s edition of the beachside event through a visual diary featuring Arlo Parks, Grove, Blondshell and more

Profiles

Angel Bat Dawid on Bob Marley and owning her outsiderdom

In her own words, bandleader, clarinettist and activist Angel Bat Dawid talks musical rebels, experimentation and a love for Bob Marley for May’s The Click feature

Long Reads

Listen to an atmospheric new playlist from Daria Kolosova and Etapp Kyle

An eclectic accompaniment to whatever your late spring has in store from the Ukrainian pair