Dancing with the ghosts of Blackpool: The Black Lights was an inspired collision of place and sound

The inaugural edition of The Black Lights embraced Blackpool’s faded glamour, transforming venues across the town into stages for radical music from The Caretaker, Klein, Blackhaine and more.

CONFESSIONS II: Madonna lets her guard down on the dancefloor

Looking back has never come naturally to Madonna. On ‘CONFESSIONS II’, she does so without succumbing to nostalgia, delivering her most honest, cohesive and creatively liberated album in over 20 years.

Donato Dozzy & Batu: The Expanding Universe

Donato Dozzy and Batu may come from different generations and zones of electronic music, but their paths have been crossing, fatefully, for nearly a decade. Now, they’re playing an ongoing game of “ping-pong production” that brings together Bristol bass futurism and hypnotic minimal techno.

Listen to a playlist that captures what the sun feels like, according to Parris

Welcome back to Selections, a series of artist-curated playlists from those in the know.

Swaraj: Claiming Space

As legendary late-90s and 00s club night Swaraj returns, key figures from the Asian Underground cast their mind back to a transformative moment in British club culture.

The Caretaker: Ballroom Eternal

Ahead of his performance in the Blackpool Tower Ballroom during last weekend’s The Black Lights festival, James Leyland Kirby spoke in a rare interview about the unlikely viral afterlife of his dementia-themed project, The Caretaker.

In Photos: Inside our Paris Fashion Week Men’s party with Fred Perry

As part of Men’s Fashion Week in Paris, Crack Magazine partnered with Fred Perry for a special one-night event celebrating the brand’s enduring connection to music and subculture.

In Photos: The art programme at Polifonic Puglia

This year, Polifonic returns to Puglia, Italy, for its eighth edition, with two new commissions joining a programme of installations that has grown alongside the festival itself.

Rising: NEW YORK make music for walking around the city feeling cute

The London-based duo behind NEW YORK discuss their DIY beginnings, embracing a slower journey, and making deconstructed art pop for late-night scrolling.