Monheim Triennale’s The Prequel made rare, vital space for collaboration without commercial agenda

Bringing together 16 experimental musicians for three days of spontaneous sessions and one-off live shows, The Monheim Triennale created a charged space for collaboration, improvisation, boundary-pushing and play.

Montreux Jazz Festival 2023: Big names and a culture of creativity on the banks of Lake Geneva

Into the woods with PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey: musician, poet and iconoclast. A new album, the first in seven years, captures a moment of creative renewal as she explores the ambiguities of worlds both real and imagined. Crack’s Editor-in-Chief, Louise Brailey, learns more

Rina Sawayama

Intonal Festival 2022: A sanctuary for experimental sounds

Kylie: Let’s dance through all our fears

As Kylie Minogue shrugs off her legend status and enters a new disco phase, the pop icon is committed to staying curious

Inside The Crack Magazine Archives, our new book celebrating 10 years of photography

In this extract, editor Louise Brailey writes about the significance of her favourite image

Flow Festival 2019: Esoteric acts outshine the A-listers in Finland

Sounds of the Russian underground – Selected by Philipp Gorbachev

The Russian-born DJ and producer explores freedom – creative and otherwise – in post-Soviet Russia

Oasis Festival 2018: The Marrakech festival marries high-end luxe with an ear for the underground

Ortigia Sound System 2018: Blissed out sonics under a blood moon

7 Artists on Their Unsung Queer Icons

In celebration of the UK’s ongoing Pride Season, we asked some of our favourite artists to shout out their unsung queer icons, from Victoria Ruiz to Christine McCharen-Tran, Lotic and more

Grace Jones – Mixed by Barbie Bertisch

To celebrate Grace Jones’ birthday, we tapped The Lot’s Barbie Bertisch to create a tribute mix that delves deep into the icon’s back catalogue

Malmö’s Intonal Festival dissolves boundaries between avant-garde and club

6 Artists on Their Favourite Abba Songs

‘Dancing Queen’? ‘The Day Before You Came’? ‘Eagle’? Jarvis Cocker, DJ Harvey, John Grant and more explore Abba’s lasting legacy and choose their best-loved Abba track

Fever Ray: Bite Back

Since 2009’s debut LP, the freedoms Dreijer fiercely protects have come under threat. Following a period of queer exploration, the progressive glow of Fever Ray is brighter than ever

Brave! Factory Festival harnesses the energy of Kiev’s underground

Lana Del Rey’s first London show in four years is a masterclass in understatement

Lana Del Rey

Steffi

Parties and politics at Field Day 2017

Taking the temperature of Scandinavian music at Spot Festival 2017