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Watch Matthew Herbert, James Holden and more talk creative blocks

A panel including Matthew Herbert, Young Guru, Phoebe Kiddo and James Holden sat down to…

Field Day announce Crack Magazine stage

Crack Magazine are linking up with Field Day once again to present a stage at…

Tarik Barri at Bloc

At this year’s Bloc weekend we found ourselves faced with a massively varied spectrum of acts…

Wiley Autobiography

Wiley is releasing an autobiography in November

The book will accompany Wiley’s long-awaited album, Godfather, which is due to drop this coming…

Massive Attack to play Bristol’s Clifton Downs

Massive Attack are set to return to their hometown for the first musical event on…

Still from Steve Gunn - Ancient Jules music video

6 New Videos You Need To See

This week we’re rolling with the A$AP mob in full on glitch mode, tripping with the Super Furry Animals and taking a slow ride with Steve Gunn in our roundup of the best new music videos

Objekt for Crack Magazine

Tresor Records announce Kern Vol. 3 mixed by Objekt

The Berlin-based label and clubbing institution are dropping the third mix in their Kern series…

Parallel Lines’ Plastic Letters brings Diet Cig and more to Peckham

Peckham’s Bussey Building will play host to some of the UKs best up and coming…

Metronomy For Crack Magazine by Henry Gorse

Metronomy announce Summer 08, listen to Old Skool now

This month’s Crack Magazine cover stars, Metronomy, are back with their first album since 2013’s…

See The Cure play two new songs

The Cure kicked off their US tour last night in New Orleans debuting two brand…

London’s Born & Bred festival cancel Azealia Banks

Rinse FM’s flagship London festival Born & Bred have pulled Azealia Banks from their line-up…

Watch Beyoncé cover Prince’s The Beautiful Ones

Beyoncé paid tribute to the late singer on the Dallas stop of her Formation world…

Klein

Our featured new artist this month is Klein, an unapologetic, noisy producer with a keen eye for the 21st century’s internet aesthetic

Stormzy and RAY BLK link up on new track My Hood

Up-and-coming London RnB singer RAY BLK has acquired the skills of beloved grime MC Stormzy for…

Metronomy's Joe Mount for Crack Magazine by Henry Gorse

Crack Magazine x Metronomy

In this short behind-the-scenes film you can hear an exclusive clip of Old Skool – the first new song from Metronomy since 2014’s Love Letters

Irvine Welsh to write Alan McGee biopic

The author of Trainspotting and Filth is writing a film based on the Creation Records…

Skepta announces mini-tour

Tickets are only available to fans who have pre-ordered Konnichiwa Skepta will be hitting the…

Super Furry Animals to release new music

The band will release Bing Bong, their first recorded output in 7 years, on 13…

Radiohead share first album teasers

The band posted a short video of a tweeting bird on their Instagram feed while…

Skepta for Crack Magazine

6 New Videos You Need To See

Stormzy gets Scary and Skepta trashes a car in this week’s roundup of the best music videos out there

Radiohead delete website and Twitter feed

Are Radiohead planning something big? Fans of the band are speculating that they could be…

Watch a short film following a day in the life of Rejjie Snow

A film from iD, the new 4G mobile network, follows a day in the life…

E.M.M.A announces round 2 of girls’ production workshop

Radar Radio’s E.M.M.A is bringing her girls-only production workshop back to Radar’s studios in June…

Lower have broken up

The Danish post-punk four piece have decided to call it a day Sad news for fans…

Beyoncé covered Prince on first night of Formation Tour

Beyoncé played new songs from Lemonade live for the first time last night As her…

Argentina bans electronic music festivals in wake of Time Warp deaths

The Buenos Aires local government say the measure will be in place until a suitable…

Dekmantel to release new Occult Orientated Crime LP

The latest release on Amsterdam’s Dekmantel label comes from Occult Orientated Crime, an alias of…

Mac DeMarco teases Prince tribute

Mac DeMarco becomes the latest artist to cover the musical icon It looks like indie…

Drake shares Views From The 6 artwork

The rapper’s new album is set to drop on 29 April Drake has now revealed…

Lessons in True Confessions:
10 Essential
Guided By Voices
Records

Like most people I first heard Guided By Voices’ music whilst smoking cigarettes and lying prostrate on my friend’s bedroom floor