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The November issue is here. Starring TraTraTrax, Blonde Redhead, Yussef Dayes, Brother May, CHAI and more…
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  • Blonde Redhead are sourcing strength from the shadows

  • Gazelle Twin on the connection between ghosts, technology and women’s rights

  • Cover story: TraTraTrax – Keep It Moving

  • In Photos: Yaeji at the Roundhouse

  • Chasing the rhythm with Yussef Dayes

  • Bored Lord’s focusing on the ravers, not the room

  • Rising: Honour is pressing forward, looking back

  • Rarelyalways and Joshua Idehen on performance, personal growth and the power of language

  • Mixes

Sunday Mix: Jaakko Eino Kalevi

For 61 minutes, Finnish artist Jakko Eino Kalevi builds and nurtures an aural landscape where tracks by the likes of Azymuth and Branko Mataja rub shoulders with tunes from Yukihiro Takahasi, Paul Hardcastle and CAN
  • News

Lente Kabinet Festival shares details of 2024 edition
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New Bristol-based queer radio station Kunt Up Music.FM set to launch early next year
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Thousands of musicians sign open letter calling for ceasefire in Gaza
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Art Not Evidence launches campaign to prevent rap lyrics being used as court evidence
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Mun Sing, Sabrina Bellaouel and Marina Herlop to play Nuits Sonores 2024
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Evian Christ’s Trance Party launches TP Radio, featuring VTSS, Nkisi and Hannah Diamond
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Overmono, PJ Harvey and Denzel Curry announced for Flow Festival 2024
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Björk and Rosalía release collaborative single, Oral
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Birmingham’s Que Club to be celebrated in new London exhibition
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Shygirl to play Bristol’s Marble Factory next month
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Thy Slaughter announce debut album, Soft Rock, and share SOPHIE co-written single, Lost Everything
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Ableton announces Live 12, with new MIDI tools, devices and more
  • Long Reads

Crack Mix 500

Crack’s flagship mix series celebrates its 500th instalment with a Block9 takeover. Venture in for archive mixes from the Glastonbury fields from GIDEÖN, Neneh Cherry, Masters and Work and more
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Crack Magazine’s Festival Guide 2023

An ongoing, regularly-updated directory of festivals and events taking place around the world this year, in 2023 – handpicked by Crack Magazine
  • 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
  • Mixes

Sunday Mix: Jaakko Eino Kalevi

For 61 minutes, Finnish artist Jakko Eino Kalevi builds and nurtures an aural landscape where tracks by the likes of Azymuth and Branko Mataja rub shoulders with tunes from Yukihiro Takahasi, Paul Hardcastle and CAN
  • Live Reviews

Mucho Flow 2023: Highlights from the Portuguese festival’s 10th edition

From 2-4 November, the Portuguese avant-garde festival celebrated its 10th anniversary edition with highlights including Lunch Money Life, Heith, OK Williams and more
  • Long Reads

Jeshi curates an eclectic playlist of pensive tunes and laidback bangers

The London artist selects Radiohead, MIKE, Tirzah, Smerz, Pretty V and more
  • Mixes

Chloé Caillet

A gradual build-up and plenty of grooves, with tracks by the likes of Sister Maso, Nyra and Adrien Calvet inside this mix from the Ibiza-based artist
  • Long Reads

In Photos: Le Guess Who? 2023

Staged in venues across the bustling heart of Utrecht, the annual Le Guess Who? festival returned this month. Check out our gallery to see how the event played out in pictures
  • Profiles

Blonde Redhead are sourcing strength from the shadows

The volatile dynamic at the heart of Blonde Redhead worked, until it didn’t. Now, after a period of reset, the NYC legends are back with a new album that carefully balances conflict and resolution
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Album Reviews

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)
100 gecs
10,000 gecs
Fever Ray
Radical Romantics
Kelela
Raven
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
  • Mixes

Sunday Mix: Jaakko Eino Kalevi

For 61 minutes, Finnish artist Jakko Eino Kalevi builds and nurtures an aural landscape where tracks by the likes of Azymuth and Branko Mataja rub shoulders with tunes from Yukihiro Takahasi, Paul Hardcastle and CAN
  • Live Reviews

Mucho Flow 2023: Highlights from the Portuguese festival’s 10th edition

From 2-4 November, the Portuguese avant-garde festival celebrated its 10th anniversary edition with highlights including Lunch Money Life, Heith, OK Williams and more
  • Long Reads

Jeshi curates an eclectic playlist of pensive tunes and laidback bangers

The London artist selects Radiohead, MIKE, Tirzah, Smerz, Pretty V and more
  • Mixes

Chloé Caillet

A gradual build-up and plenty of grooves, with tracks by the likes of Sister Maso, Nyra and Adrien Calvet inside this mix from the Ibiza-based artist
  • Long Reads

In Photos: Le Guess Who? 2023

Staged in venues across the bustling heart of Utrecht, the annual Le Guess Who? festival returned this month. Check out our gallery to see how the event played out in pictures
  • Profiles

Blonde Redhead are sourcing strength from the shadows

The volatile dynamic at the heart of Blonde Redhead worked, until it didn’t. Now, after a period of reset, the NYC legends are back with a new album that carefully balances conflict and resolution
  • Long Reads

Laura Misch curates an atmospheric playlist of tracks she’s been listening to on the road

The London-based multidisciplinary artist centres her Selections around the music she’s been plugging into while on tour, in support of her debut album ‘Sample the Sky’
  • Mixes

Di Linh

A resident at Hanoi’s Savage club and The Observatory in Saigon, Di Linh steps up with “a wave of sensational and joyful energy”
  • Profiles

Gazelle Twin on the connection between ghosts, technology and women’s rights

In her own words, Elizabeth Bernholz, a.k.a. electronic musician Gazelle Twin, reflects on the hauntings that inspired her latest album, ‘Black Dog’
  • Mixes

Sunday Mix: Green-House

Eco-ambient duo Green-House provide “a collection of environmental, ambient, and library tracks that we’ve been spinning anytime we can”
  • Long Reads

In Photos: Llais Festival 2023

From 11 to 15 October, Llais festival (known previously as the Festival of the Voice) returned for its fifth year. Check out our photo gallery from the Welsh event

  • Long Reads

In Photos: Stone Island Stage at C2C Festival 2023

Check out our photo gallery capturing some of the sets and scenes from the Stone Island Stage at this year’s C2C Festival, which returned to Turin from 2-5 November
  • Mixes

DJ Manny

A masterclass from Chicago native and footwork innovator DJ Manny. This one’s not one to miss
  • Album Reviews

Shabazz Palaces: Robed in Rareness review

With a suite of guest features drawn from rap’s new generation, the seventh album by Ishmael Butler’s Seattle-based collective walks a line between evolution and homage
  • Live Reviews

Oasis: Into The Wild 2023: Highlights from the scenic Moroccan festival

Since its inaugural edition in 2015, Oasis Festival has placed great importance on providing a setting just as enticing as the music. 2023’s location was the most momentous yet: the esteemed Atlas Studios in Ouarzazate. Read on for our standout moments from across the weekend’s proceedings
  • Long Reads

In Photos: Yaeji at the Roundhouse

Last weekend, the NYC-via-Seoul DJ, producer and vocalist took to the stage at Camden’s Roundhouse as part of Pitchfork London. We were there to catch some of the on stage and backstage magic

  • Mixes

Sounds from the Dreamscape: Mixed by Orbe Nacimiento

For today’s specialist mix, we head to Mexico City where experimental electronic duo Orbe Nacimiento bridges the gap between the spiritual and the physical taking us “on a journey into our complex ambient dreamscape journeying through our reality and yours”
  • Long Reads

Listen to a playlist of club, grime and baile funk edits from Bianca Oblivion

The LA-based DJ and producer curates a playlist of her “favourite edits right now, particularly in the realm of club, grime and baile funk”
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