Posts by Crack Staff (@crackmagazine )

50 Cent announces UK arena tour to celebrate 15 years of ‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin’’

50 Cent has announced details of a UK arena tour later this year, to celebrate…

10 Music Video Directors Switching Up the Game

We profile 10 filmmakers taking the visual format deeper into the experimental field

How Matthew Herbert used music to create a portrait of A Fantastic Woman

“We wanted to treat her like Marilyn Monroe and give her a big melody, to give her this elegance and this grandeur”

5 New Acts You Need to Know

A round-up of the best new sounds from the periphery, featuring experimental ambience, distorted post-club sounds, jazz-infused hip-hop and serene, dancefloor music

David Vunk to play Jäger Music party in Rotterdam

Red Light Radio DJ and Dekmantel favourite David Vunk will play BAR in his hometown of Rotterdam…

L U C Y

Tune in to 60 minutes of heat from one of the most exciting producers on the map

The Labour Party announce summer festival

The Labour Party have shared details of a one-day festival in London this summer. Labour…

Bacardi house pioneer DJ Spoko has passed away

The influential producer helped put SA house music on the map

FaltyDL

Andrew Lustman expertly drifts through sounds and styles on Crack Mix 196

Montreux Jazz Festival

Wu-Tang Clan join Lovebox lineup

Celebrating 25 years of the iconic 36 Chambers, Wu-Tang Clan are playing an exclusive London…

Listen to four audio Sketches by Soda Plains, Ikonika, Sega Bodega and Ivy Lab created using Native Instruments

It’s the second season of Native’s Sketches series

Peach

The ascendant selector turns in a genre-defying mix of loose, atmospheric shapes and abstractions

10 Female Artists on Their Unsung Pioneers

uff to UMFANG, Midori Takada to Cera Khin, we asked 10 artists who to shine a light on their underappreciated heroes

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Unsung Female Pioneers – Mixed by Cera Khin

The NTS and Noods show host turns in a sound collage of music and stories from female artists – just in time for International Women’s Day

Zaltan

Crack 194 comes courtesy of one of our favourite DJs of the moment

David Byrne

David Byrne responds to criticisms over lack of female collaborators on new album

He regrets it now

Listen to Sade’s first new track in seven years

Last month we learned the exciting news that Sade would be releasing her first new track in…

‘The Shape of Water’ wins Best Picture at the 2018 Oscars

Capping off the biggest night in Hollywood, The Shape of Water has won the award…

Oscars 2018: Frances McDormand wins Best Actress for ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’

Frances McDormand is taking home the Academy Award for Actress in a Leading Role. The…

Oscars 2018: ‘Get Out’ wins Best Original Screenplay

Get Out has won its first Academy Award. The film, directed and written by Jordan…

Watch Sufjan Stevens perform at the Oscars with St. Vincent and Moses Sumney

Sufjan Stevens performed at the 90th Academy Awards tonight (4 March). He was joined by…

Oscars 2018: ‘A Fantastic Woman’ wins best foreign film

A Fantastic Woman, the Chilean film directed by Sebastián Lelio and starring actress Daniela Vega,…

Sam Rockwell wins Supporting Actor Oscar for ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’

Sam Rockwell has won the first Oscar at the 90th Academy Awards. He won for…

Boston rapper Hadish connects with Rick Ross on The Roc

Now aged 27, Boston rapper Hadish has been rapping for the majority of his life….

Ryan James Ford

Having made his production debut on Marcel Dettmann’s label, Ford dusts off the darker crates in his collection for this exclusive Crack Mix

In GIFS: Carnaval de Bahidorá 2018

Tlaltizapán 17 February

DJ Boring

The London DJ hits refresh on hands-aloft house music

Watch the eerie video for industrial duo Ora Iso’s Dead Riot

We’re excited to be premiering a brand new video from Ora Iso – a New…

At Carnaval de Bahidorá, expertly curated sounds flourish in a paradisal Mexican location

Tlaltizapán 17 February

Larry Heard, Motor City Drum Ensemble and more announced for Kappa FuturFestival 

Kappa FuturFestival takes place in Turin this July