The December issue is here. Featuring Quinie, Jim Legxacy, Anaiis, Crack Magazine's top albums and tracks of 2025, and more.
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Admina’s Crack Mix moves through experimental electronic sounds, global bass, leftfield club and abstract textures, featuring tracks by the likes of DJ Narciso and Exile Di Brave & Time Cow. Dive in.
The revenge of the fatally online outcasts. DIY DJing. The rising tide of sloponomics. Power to the people. Artists defying Big Tech. A new wave of British rap. We asked some of our favourite writers, contributors and scene-setters to pick apart the bones of music and culture in 2025.
Four days, multiple stages and a New Year’s Eve countdown – Beyond The Valley has unveiled when and where the action will unfold across its milestone 2025/26 festival.
Our fifth anthology gathers 11 2025 cover stories and two years of defining imagery into a permanent archive of music and culture.
Beyond the Valley Festival returns to Victoria this December to celebrate its 10th birthday and welcome in 2026.
On tour for her second album ‘Juniper’, Joy Crookes reflects on pushing her sound beyond her comfort zone, her favourite nights out this year, and creating spaces where people can feel free.
The Prague-based artist’s new album deals with temporality, presence, and the search for meaning within overstimulated modern life.
South London’s DoomCannon puts together a restorative Sunday Mix with tracks from the likes of Donny Hathaway, James Brown and Kamasi Washington.
The festival returns to Lyon next summer with Vril & Wata Igarashi, gyrofield, Mala, Lila Tirando a Violeta and more on the line-up.
The tracks that defined the year, in ways big and small.
Where to start with 2025? Start here.
EPT Radio enters a new month of global storytelling through sound, featuring mixes from Sinéad, Yaya La Bae, Nina Yamada, Zozo, and Paurro.
The Warehouse Project’s flagship event will return on 13 December with Floating Points, SHERELLE and Underworld on the bill.
Frances Morgan of the Daphne Oram Trust reflects on the composer and musician’s radical vision and lasting influence.
The filmmaker and choreographer breaks down her collaboration with Charli xcx for her post-‘brat’ era.
JADE, IDLES and Clipse have joined the line-up for the festival’s 23rd edition, which will take place from 1-4 July in Gdynia.
The festival is set to return to Larmer Tree Gardens for its 20th anniversary edition next September.
Morris Kolontyrsky of cosmic metal band Blood Incantation praises ambient icon William Basinski, who recently opened a show for them in a Chicago cemetery.
This week, London collective caroline take over the Sunday Mix with a 45-minute selection of warm, laid-back tracks made for a weekend spent with loved ones. Lean back and listen.
The festival returns to Milan from 20-23 November with the theme ‘City Echoes’.
At this year’s Paléo Festival, Flava D delivered a fast and fluid ride through drum ‘n’ bass and UKG, full of sharp turns and deep grooves. Dive in.
In this 75-minute mix, London and Bristol-based producer A.Wild glides between minimal, techno, tech house and more.
The arts festival returned to the Wales Millennium Centre with a week-long programme of live music from the likes of Mabe Fratti, Meredith Monk and Beverly-Glenn Copeland.
Bristol’s venue-hopping all-dayer returns this Saturday, 8 November with a programme co-curated by Crack Magazine, Team Love, and the Bristol Beacon. From Nala Sinephro to Steve Davis, here are our top picks for the day.
Field Maneuvers will return to a secret location in Norfolk from 21-23 August next year.
‘Globoko’ is on the duo’s most recent album, ‘V drevo’, which was released on Clockwork Voltage earlier this year.
Musician, broadcaster and ‘So, Hear Me Out’ host Linton Stephens unpacks the classical influences and references on Rosalía’s new single, ‘Berghain’.
At the 2025 edition of Nuits sonores, Berlin-based heavyweights Justine Perry and Paula Koski delivered an hour of fast-paced, hypnotic and trippy techno built for peak-time carnage in the summer rain.
London-based DJs TSVI and Surusinghe came together at this year’s Nuits sonores for an evening of unpredictable percussive chaos, blending bass, techno, dembow and UK garage for a set built for the peak hours of the night.
Former Crack Magazine cover star Helena Hauff and electro and breakbeat visionary DJ MELL G came together for an exchange of “dark grooves, broken rhythms, and unexpected moments” at this year’s edition of Nuits sonores Festival.
