In Photos: How Reload Sound & Friends celebrate Bristol’s musical legacy
Bristol DJ soundsystem collective team up with Foot Locker and Salomon at iconic club Lakota to explore the city’s musical identity through a genre-spanning night of music.
Rising: IMISSMYMOM are making existential shoegaze with a side of doom
With their second album, London-based band IMISSMYMOM are holding onto the spontaneity that first brought them together.
Napoli Segreta’s playlist for a red heat alert
Welcome back to Selections, a series of artist-curated playlists from those in the know.
The V&A’s Lost Music Venues: A celebration of the grassroots spaces that sustain British music culture
The V&A’s ‘Lost Music Venues’ display is part eulogy, part call to action and part cultural archive-in-the-making, curator Harriet Reed tells us.
Iceage’s guide to Copenhagen
As the Copenhagen band’s new album arrives just in time for a long summer in the city, drummer Dan Kjær Nielsen shares the local music spaces and hidden corners that continue to inspire them.
Open’er Festival 2026 through five key performances
From David Byrne’s orange-hued optimism to Nick Cave’s rousing, devotional headline set, Open’er Festival transformed north Poland’s Gdynia into a four-day celebration of music legends and contemporary pop icons.
Decoding… ongaku kissa
Filmmaker Nick Dwyer traces the origins, evolution and enduring appeal of Japan’s ‘ongaku kissa’.
Swaraj – Rewind & Reload: DJ Priya
As part of a two-part mix series celebrating the return of the legendary London club night Swaraj, DJ Priya takes us on an hour-long, high-energy ride through genres and eras.
Swaraj – Rewind & Reload: Pathaan
As part of a two-part series celebrating the return of the legendary London club night Swaraj, Pathaan delivers a slow-burning mix that revisits the eclectic sounds and spirit of its formative years.
11 tracks for the shortest flight of your life, selected by Bassvictim
Welcome back to Selections, a series of artist-curated playlists from those in the know.
In Photos: Gottwood Festival 2026
Gottwood celebrated a landmark 15th anniversary this year, rewarding its dedicated community with its first-ever 24-hour programme across the Carreglwyd Estate.
Dancing with the ghosts of Blackpool: The Black Lights was an inspired collision of place and sound
The inaugural edition of The Black Lights embraced Blackpool’s faded glamour, transforming venues across the town into stages for radical music from The Caretaker, Klein, Blackhaine and more.
8 artists, writers and Madonna collaborators on CONFESSIONS II
Arca, IB Kamara, Michael Cragg and more share their first takes and experiences with ‘CONFESSIONS II’ – Madonna’s long-awaited, triumphant return to the dancefloor.
CONFESSIONS II: Madonna lets her guard down on the dancefloor
Looking back has never come naturally to Madonna. On ‘CONFESSIONS II’, she does so without succumbing to nostalgia, delivering her most honest, cohesive and creatively liberated album in over 20 years.
Donato Dozzy & Batu: The Expanding Universe
Donato Dozzy and Batu may come from different generations and zones of electronic music, but their paths have been crossing, fatefully, for nearly a decade. Now, they’re playing an ongoing game of “ping-pong production” that brings together Bristol bass futurism and hypnotic minimal techno.
Listen to a playlist that captures what the sun feels like, according to Parris
Welcome back to Selections, a series of artist-curated playlists from those in the know.
Swaraj: Claiming Space
As legendary late-90s and 00s club night Swaraj returns, key figures from the Asian Underground cast their mind back to a transformative moment in British club culture.
The Caretaker: Ballroom Eternal
Ahead of his performance in the Blackpool Tower Ballroom during last weekend’s The Black Lights festival, James Leyland Kirby spoke in a rare interview about the unlikely viral afterlife of his dementia-themed project, The Caretaker.
In Photos: Inside our Paris Fashion Week Men’s party with Fred Perry
As part of Men’s Fashion Week in Paris, Crack Magazine partnered with Fred Perry for a special one-night event celebrating the brand’s enduring connection to music and subculture.
In Photos: The art programme at Polifonic Puglia
This year, Polifonic returns to Puglia, Italy, for its eighth edition, with two new commissions joining a programme of installations that has grown alongside the festival itself.
Rising: NEW YORK make music for walking around the city feeling cute
The London-based duo behind NEW YORK discuss their DIY beginnings, embracing a slower journey, and making deconstructed art pop for late-night scrolling.
La Nature Festival through five key performances
Deep in the Belgian Ardennes, La Nature Festival pairs a secluded woodland setting with four days of bass-heavy, boundary-pushing electronic music.
Iceage: Boys keep swinging
Iceage’s latest album, ‘For Love of Grace & the Hereafter’, sees them rediscover an intensity and urgency as only they can.
In Photos: Solstice Festival 2026
Solstice Festival returned to northern Finland this summer solstice for three days of music, art and nature beneath the midnight sun.
In Photos: Ethel Cain at Cardiff Castle
Ethel Cain kicks off the UK and European leg of the ‘Willoughby Tucker Forever Tour’ with a headline show at Cardiff Castle.
A playlist for the emotional stages of a food coma, selected by Model/Actriz bassist Aaron Shapiro
Welcome back to Selections, a series of artist-curated playlists from those in the know.
In Photos: Bloc Fest 2026
Bloc Fest’s sixth edition took place across six cities: Bologna, Florence, Livorno, Rome, Naples and Cilento.
Beyond 90: We’re hosting a World Cup party with Nemiroff Vodka in Manchester
Ahead of our Nemiroff Vodka event in Manchester next week, we asked Mixtress, Dr Dubplate and Tomas Gittins about their connection to football and their plans for the World Cup.
Listen to a playlist inspired by the musical world of Paco Rabanne
A playlist compiling tracks released by Paco Rabanne’s 80s record label, Paco Rabanne Design.
In Photos: Johnnie Walker Black at GALA 2026
Johnnie Walker Black kicked off festival season by bringing its Keep Walking campaign to GALA’s 11th edition in Peckham Rye Park.