Posts by Crack Staff (@crackmagazine)

Gift guide 2023: The best Christmas presents for music fans

From rave-inspired perfume to the TraTraTrax scarf, Kylie’s ‘Tension’ candle, the Sports Banger book and Caroline Polachek’s ‘Bunny Is a Rider’ thong

What are friends for: 3 artists call upon their contacts for advice, memories and memes

A new social series featuring Saoirse, TYSON and SIPHO. Made in collaboration with Minor Figures. Watch all three videos here

Kelela shares RAVE:N, The Remixes tracklist, with Shygirl, Yaeji and more

The ‘Raven’ remix project is slated for release on 9 February

Kwes

London-based composer and producer Kwes joins us for a free-flowing, fast-moving Crack Mix that connects the dots between scrapbook of styles he’s collected or enjoyed over the years

The Top 25 Tracks of 2023

The best songs of 2023, according to Crack Magazine. Featuring Jorja Smith, NewJeans, SofTT, Overmono, Mitski and more

Ruth Mascelli

Special Interest’s Ruth Mascelli comes through with a “mix that gestures towards the dancefloor” balancing “full frontal embodiment music with an undercurrent of seasick ambient”

Brazil’s Feminine Hi-Fi selected for Ballantine’s True Music Fund

The collective is creating welcoming and safer spaces for women within Brazil’s sound system culture

Massive Attack announce Act 1.5 all day event in Bristol

The Clifton Downs show is a climate action acelerator event and will take place on 25 August 2024, aiming to be the lowest carbon show of its size staged so far

Kamal. curates an emotive playlist themed around “the loneliness of the youth of today”

Featuring King Krule, Mitski, Mica Levi, Leon Vynehall and more, the Dave collaborator provides a range of tracks that evoke “either a sense of existentialism, loneliness, or melancholia”

The Top 50 Albums of 2023

The albums that captured the many moods of 2023, starring Troye Sivan, Klein, Kara Jackson, Lankum, Laurel Halo and more. Our top 50 albums of the year

Crack Magazine’s Annual Report 2023

It’s that time again. Crack Magazine’s annual breakdown of the year in music, featuring the best albums and tracks of 2023, along with Christmas gifts and staff picks, mixes and more

Sunday Mix: Vagabon

Vagabon a.k.a. Laetitia Tamko presents an upbeat, uptempo collection of sounds and songs that give her pep and vigour on unhurried days

Listen to a playlist of “deeply felt tunes” from Russell E.L. Butler

Featuring the likes of KeiyaA, 8ULENTINA and Laraaji, the Brooklyn DJ and producer describe their playlist as “a breadth of deeply felt tunes that move the body in many ways”

L’Rain, Space Afrika and Rainy Miller join line-up for Simple Things 2024

The Bristol based festival has announced a second wave of acts set to play its upcoming 10th edition, taking place across various venues on 24 February

Nyra

Crack Mix 536 from Canoe label boss Nyra locks into its irresistible groove from the off, beckoning listeners to the dancefloor through a choice blend of big vocals, big emotions and even bigger energy

Space Afrika, LVRA and V/Z announced for Luminate series at Kings Place

The London venue has announced a new season of its Luminate experimental music series, with shows confirmed for 2023 and 2024

Listen to a playlist spanning ten years of Prayer’s productions

The London-based producer reflects on ten years of music under his Prayer alias, spanning atmospheric jungle and electro-classical crossovers

Pop Zone: Bruce

For this month’s Pop Zone, the Bristol-based producer, DJ and vocalist creates “an introverted, immersive journey” filled with “old blues, movie soundtracks and modern classics”

Lente Kabinet Festival shares details of 2024 edition

The event, organised by the team behind Dekmantel, returns to Het Twiske, Amsterdam, on 18 and 19 May 2024

Sunday Mix: Jaakko Eino Kalevi

For 61 minutes, Finnish artist Jakko Eino Kalevi builds and nurtures an aural landscape where tracks by the likes of Azymuth and Branko Mataja rub shoulders with tunes from Yukihiro Takahasi, Paul Hardcastle and CAN

New Bristol-based queer radio station Kunt Up Music.FM set to launch early next year

Applications for show proposals and volunteer roles for “Bristol’s first queer independent radio” are open now

Thousands of musicians sign open letter calling for ceasefire in Gaza

The letter, set up by Musicians for Palestine, demands “an immediate ceasefire and humanitarian aid in Gaza, and an end to the siege”

Chloé Caillet

A gradual build-up and plenty of grooves, with tracks by the likes of Sister Maso, Nyra and Adrien Calvet inside this mix from the Ibiza-based artist

Art Not Evidence launches campaign to prevent rap lyrics being used as court evidence

Nadia Whittome MP is set to table the legislation drafted up by the campaign group…

Mun Sing, Sabrina Bellaouel and Marina Herlop to play Nuits Sonores 2024

They’ll be joined in Lyon by Skrillex, Bonobo, Martha Da’ro, Ryoji Ikeda and more

Evian Christ’s Trance Party launches TP Radio, featuring VTSS, Nkisi and Hannah Diamond

A non-stop stream of sets recorded from Trance Party over the years is available to listen the event series’ website

Björk and Rosalía release collaborative single, Oral

The new single – which marks the first collaboration between the pair – aims to raise awareness of and support action against intensive salmon farming in Iceland

Laura Misch curates an atmospheric playlist of tracks she’s been listening to on the road

The London-based multidisciplinary artist centres her Selections around the music she’s been plugging into while on tour, in support of her debut album ‘Sample the Sky’

Di Linh

A resident at Hanoi’s Savage club and The Observatory in Saigon, Di Linh steps up with “a wave of sensational and joyful energy”

Sunday Mix: Green-House

Eco-ambient duo Green-House provide “a collection of environmental, ambient, and library tracks that we’ve been spinning anytime we can”