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  • Cosey Fanni Tutti: Hold Your Ground

  • Nuits sonores 2025 through five key performances

  • David Blot and Turbo Island’s graphic novel celebrates the life of disabled disco innovator Cola Boyy

  • Wet Leg: Strange Fascination

  • Multidisciplinary artists James K, Heith, Günseli Yalcinkaya and Andrea Belosi on their surreal new live show, The Talk

  • Ten years of GALA through five key performances

  • Sherelle on the monotony-nuking impact SBTRKT had on her listening habits

  • Cue Points: O Ghettão

  • Lauren Duffus makes music for a fractured, post-everything era

  • In Photos: Figura - Seeing in Dreams

  • Nazanin Noori's new exhibition asks us to reflect on an alternative political reality

  • Takiaya Reed: "I’ve built a whole entire world in my dreams"

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Cosey Fanni Tutti: Hold Your Ground

Recorded during a time of personal turmoil, Cosey Fanni Tutti’s new album, ‘2t2’, channels the same uncompromising spirit that has always made her such a vital and transgressive force.

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Gaswerk Music Days announces full programme for 2025 edition

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Kneecap’s Mo Chara granted unconditional bail over terror offence charge

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Experience Tanika Gupta’s A Tupperware of Ashes at home with our National Theatre at Home deal

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Waking Life & Dreaming Live release fundraising compilation to help revive Gaza’s farmland

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South Facing reveals support for Mogwai and Lankum show

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SHAPE+ announces showcases in Almaty and Banja Luka

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Forwards Festival completes line-up for 2025

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Mura Masa announces new tour spotlighting grassroots talent beyond big cities

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Junction 2 festival completes line-up for 2025

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HARD Summer adds to 2025 line-up

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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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Cosey Fanni Tutti: Hold Your Ground

Recorded during a time of personal turmoil, Cosey Fanni Tutti’s new album, ‘2t2’, channels the same uncompromising spirit that has always made her such a vital and transgressive force.

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Crack Mix 606: Nic Krog

Berlin-based Danish musician and sound artist Nic Krog takes over this week’s Crack Mix with a mood board of sonic influences for their forthcoming EP, ‘Better Failing’.

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Sunday Mix: Lankum

Irish quartet Lankum take over this week’s Sunday Mix with just over an hour of traditional music, ambient sounds, Americana and more.

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Listen to Mia Lily‘s playlist of dancefloor sounds from across the North

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

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Listen to a playlist of Mathew Jonson‘s best Bandcamp jazz finds

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

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Nuits sonores 2025 through five key performances

Lyon’s forward-thinking dance music festival returned to the city for its first-ever sold-out edition.

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Circuit des Yeux
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Central Cee
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Shigeto
Cherry Blossom Baby
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'This Is How Tomorrow Moves'
Remi Wolf
Big Ideas
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I Saw The TV Glow review Various Artists
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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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Avalon Emerson & the Charm
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1977
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Cosey Fanni Tutti: Hold Your Ground

Recorded during a time of personal turmoil, Cosey Fanni Tutti’s new album, ‘2t2’, channels the same uncompromising spirit that has always made her such a vital and transgressive force.

  • Mixes

Crack Mix 606: Nic Krog

Berlin-based Danish musician and sound artist Nic Krog takes over this week’s Crack Mix with a mood board of sonic influences for their forthcoming EP, ‘Better Failing’.

  • Mixes

Sunday Mix: Lankum

Irish quartet Lankum take over this week’s Sunday Mix with just over an hour of traditional music, ambient sounds, Americana and more.

  • Long Reads

Listen to Mia Lily‘s playlist of dancefloor sounds from across the North

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

  • Long Reads

Listen to a playlist of Mathew Jonson‘s best Bandcamp jazz finds

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

  • Long Reads

Nuits sonores 2025 through five key performances

Lyon’s forward-thinking dance music festival returned to the city for its first-ever sold-out edition.

  • Long Reads

David Blot and Turbo Island’s graphic novel celebrates the life of disabled disco innovator Cola Boyy

‘The Cola Boyy Bookk’, created by French radio DJ David Blot and artist Chris Wright, a.k.a. Turbo Island, bottles the late artist’s vibrant character, legacy and sound.

  • Profiles

Wet Leg: Strange Fascination

Much has changed for Wet Leg since ‘Chaise Longue’ catapulted Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers to indie omnipresence, but as their second album proves, the band’s knack for mining the peculiarities of everyday life – and love – remains firmly intact.

  • Long Reads

Ten years of GALA through five key performances

The south London festival celebrated its tenth anniversary with a three-day programme stacked with dance music’s biggest names.

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Multidisciplinary artists James K, Heith, Günseli Yalcinkaya and Andrea Belosi on their surreal new live show, The Talk

Inspired by the Antikythera mechanism – believed to be the world’s first analogue computer – ‘The Talk’ explores the ways in which narratives, as told through the lens of various technologies, shape our perception of reality.

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Cue Points: DJ Gigola

This is Cue Points, a series where DJs get granular with current tracks in their sets, giving us the low-down on what makes them work.

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Cue Points: O Ghettão

This is Cue Points, a series where DJs get granular with current tracks in their sets, giving us the low-down on what makes them work.

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Pay It Forward: Sherelle on SBTRKT

DJ, producer and broadcaster Sherelle reveals the monotony-nuking impact SBTRKT had on her listening habits.

  • Long Reads

Listen to a playlist of tactile and textured audio balm, courtesy of Christina Vantzou

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

  • Profiles

Lauren Duffus makes music for a fractured, post-everything era

The London-based producer and vocalist tunes into the rhythms of dancehall, trap and grime corrupted by half-remembered melodies.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: Figura – Seeing in Dreams

From 9-10 May, Figura’s Seeing In Dreams took over London’s The Lower Third and HERE at Outernet for two days of showcases from PAN, Accidental Meetings and more.

  • Mixes

Sunday Mix: LEYA

NYC duo LEYA take over this week’s Sunday Mix with a winding, hour-long journey through classical, rap and otherworldly experimental sounds.

  • Long Reads

Crowded Market: DVS1 and architects Leopold Banchini and Giona Bierens on reimagining festival dancefloors

At this year’s edition of Horst, DVS1 teamed up with architects Leopold Banchini and Giona Bierens to build semi-permanent stage Dark Skies.

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