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  • Cover story: Connecting... Oneohtrix Point Never

  • 10 funding resources for electronic music creatives, as selected by Mina

  • Simo Cell is powering up

  • L'Rain is moving closer

  • BCUC are finding strength in numbers

  • Rising: Enter the searing soundworlds of Plattenbau

  • Converge’s Jane Doe triggered the experimental birth of metallic hardcore

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Listen to a seductive, techno-driven playlist from Alfred Czital and Polygonia

A tantalising taste of what’s to come from the pair’s upcoming Lunchmeet festival appearance

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Overmono, Tkay Maidza and Kendrick Lamar feature on EA Sports FC 24 soundtrack

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Skepta, Eliza Rose and Call Super confirmed for Circoloco’s return to The Warehouse Project

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A new exhibition at Somerset House is celebrating Black British fashion

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The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst shares new book Goth: A History

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There was a Dean Blunt soundtrack at Burberry’s Summer 2024 fashion show

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Positive Education announces programme of talks and workshops for 2023

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Bar Italia announce new album, The Twits, and share lead single, My Little Tony

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Deena Abdelwahed, Floating Points and Olof Dreijer announced for Stone Island Presents London

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Kelman Duran, Susu Laroche and Mun Sing to play live shows at London’s Venue MOT

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Phonox announces autumn and winter 2023 programme

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Chrisman drops new single Late Siren, announces album for Hakuna Kulala

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Vetusta Morla and Iván Ferreiro to play Spain’s Granada Sound 2023

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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

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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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Listen to a seductive, techno-driven playlist from Alfred Czital and Polygonia

A tantalising taste of what’s to come from the pair’s upcoming Lunchmeet festival appearance

  • Mixes

Leon Vynehall

Today’s Crack Mix from Leon Vynehall settles into a deep and atmospheric groove almost immediately. From there, the hour-long set swaggers through recent Bandcamp finds and record shop gems tried-and-tested IRL by the London-based artist and producer

  • Album Reviews

Kylie: Tension review

Blessed with a meme-generating glitter bomb of a lead single, expectations are high for Kylie Minogue’s 16th album. The verdict? A shimmering return to form

  • Lists

10 funding resources for electronic music creatives, as selected by Mina

Ahead of a workshop at new music conference Orbit Live, the London-based DJ, producer and Funding with Mina boss breaks down some key resources for creatives and emerging electronic music professionals in the UK

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Pop Zone: nil00

For this month’s Pop Zone, the Liverpool-based artist explores “the origins of ‘l0ve'”, their forthcoming new EP, and provides a poetic pop immersion into their world

  • Profiles

BCUC are finding strength in numbers

For spirited South African seven-piece BCUC, music is not just the motor behind their mind-blowing improvisational live shows, but language for communal understanding

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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
Jockstrap
I Love You Jennifer B
George Riley
Running in Waves
  • Long Reads

Listen to a seductive, techno-driven playlist from Alfred Czital and Polygonia

A tantalising taste of what’s to come from the pair’s upcoming Lunchmeet festival appearance

  • Mixes

Leon Vynehall

Today’s Crack Mix from Leon Vynehall settles into a deep and atmospheric groove almost immediately. From there, the hour-long set swaggers through recent Bandcamp finds and record shop gems tried-and-tested IRL by the London-based artist and producer

  • Album Reviews

Kylie: Tension review

Blessed with a meme-generating glitter bomb of a lead single, expectations are high for Kylie Minogue’s 16th album. The verdict? A shimmering return to form

  • Lists

10 funding resources for electronic music creatives, as selected by Mina

Ahead of a workshop at new music conference Orbit Live, the London-based DJ, producer and Funding with Mina boss breaks down some key resources for creatives and emerging electronic music professionals in the UK

  • Mixes

Pop Zone: nil00

For this month’s Pop Zone, the Liverpool-based artist explores “the origins of ‘l0ve'”, their forthcoming new EP, and provides a poetic pop immersion into their world

  • Profiles

BCUC are finding strength in numbers

For spirited South African seven-piece BCUC, music is not just the motor behind their mind-blowing improvisational live shows, but language for communal understanding

  • Long Reads

Listen to a playlist of tracks that influenced Swank Mami’s debut EP Eurostar

To celebrate the release of her debut ‘Eurostar’, the Oslo-based artist takes us through some of the sounds that influenced the EP

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From Seoul to the World: Mixed by Balming Tiger

The Seoul-based collective’s Unsinkable and Leesuho take us “from Seoul to the world”, journeying from their immediate scene and surrounds through to a worldwide snapshot of artists from their play queues

  • Profiles

Slipknot’s Corey Taylor on hitting rock bottom and the live performance that helped him back up

CW: suicide. This feature is part of The Click series, taken from our print magazine

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DJ Spit

The Berlin-based DJ supplies a set he describes as fusing “futuristic energy and laid-back breaky rhythms to make your seasonal adventures even more memorable”

  • Profiles

Simo Cell is powering up

Known for his unconventional approach to club bangers, the French producer and DJ is swapping the instant hit for the long game as he readies his debut album, ‘Cuspide des Sirènes’

  • Live Reviews

Forwards Festival 2023: Highlights from an impressive second edition

Five key shows that made Forwards 2023 one to remember, featuring SCALER, Aphex Twin, Erykah Badu, Obongjayar and Confidence Man

  • Mixes

Music to Pull Your Strings: Mixed by Async Figure

Ahead of their new release on Tzusing’s Sea Cucumber imprint, Async Figure explore “the more heartfelt, emotional side of our productions” with their Specialist Mix

  • Long Reads

Listen to Static Dress’ playlist of tracks that influenced Rouge Carpet Disaster (Redux)

Ahead of their album being reissued on Roadrunner Records, the Leeds post-hardcore band curate a playlist featuring Ethel Cain, 100 Gecs, Converge, Puma Blue and more

  • Mixes

Aunty Rayzor

Aunty Rayzor’s heaters-filled mix for our flagship series is dedicated to underground rap from Nigeria and recent (“and not so recent”) faves from the Lagos scene

  • Profiles

L’Rain is moving closer

After her searingly emotional debut in 2017, and its critically lauded follow-up, L’Rain is striving to bring some fun and self-invention to the po-faced world of experimental music

  • Profiles

Rising: Enter the searing soundworlds of Plattenbau

Plattenbau offer a take on contemporary life that’s anything but prefabricated. We meet the spirited post-punk four-piece to discuss their new record, ‘Net Prophet’

  • Mixes

Sunday Mix: Alabaster DePlume

Alabaster DePlume turns to artists who have inspired him or brought him feelings of “hope, recognition, joy and humanity” as he conjures a gorgeous, homey and jazz-driven mix

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