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The November issue is here. Featuring Jerskin Fendrix, Jessie Reyez, Tortoise, The New Eves, Daphne Oram, Blood Incantation and more.
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  • IB Kamara: Vision Quest

  • Joy, pain and resilience set the tone at Le Guess Who? 2025

  • Pay it Forward: Morris Kolontyrsky on William Basinski

  • For Marla Kether, the dancefloor is a space for community-building and collective joy

  • In Photos: Up Ya Archives at The Warehouse Project

  • In Photos: Simple Things 2025

  • Julia Ducournau: “I need to love my characters, one way or another”

  • These New Puritans: "You want the feeling that it could all collapse any second"

  • Ziúr and Iggor Cavalera on community, resistance and belonging beyond borders

  • Listen to a playlist of atmospheric sounds selected by e/tape

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How C Prinz choreographed Charli xcx’s “feverish, fearless” new era

The filmmaker and choreographer breaks down her collaboration with Charli xcx for her post-‘brat’ era.

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Dolby to showcase immersive sound design across two locations at ADE 2025

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Einhundert announces CODE.SWITCH – a three-day programme exploring club culture

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Jen Cardini and AEG Presents France announce the inaugural Nightclubbing Festival in Paris

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Polifonic Milano announces line-up and concept for 2025

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Le Guess Who? releases full concert film of Darkside’s 2024 festival performance

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Ableton Live 12 Suite is now available on rent-to-own

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The Warehouse Project announces full line-up for Repercussion 2025

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SHAPE+ Platform affiliate Pizza Noise Mafia set to release new album

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The Underground announces full line-up for its AW25 season

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Rex Club announces new book and Ivan Smagghe-curated weekender with Craig Richards, Tiga, and more

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Full of Lava announces full programme for 2025

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ROBOT Festival announces full programme for 2025

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Festival Guide 2025

A rolling, regularly-updated directory of essential events in the UK, Europe and beyond.

  • Lists

In solidarity with Gaza: A guide to the music and resources that support the humanitarian effort

A regularly updated list of releases raising money for the relief effort in Gaza, and a list of resources and organisations doing crucial work on the ground.

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⌘R: The Best New Music, curated by Crack Magazine

A rolling playlist of the best new music, curated and regularly refreshed by Crack Magazine.

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How C Prinz choreographed Charli xcx’s “feverish, fearless” new era

The filmmaker and choreographer breaks down her collaboration with Charli xcx for her post-‘brat’ era.

  • Profiles

Jerskin Fendrix on grief, memory and growing up in the sticks

Jerskin Fendrix emerged from south London’s idiosyncratic Windmill scene before being tapped by Yorgos Lanthimos to compose the scores for ‘Poor Things’ and ‘Bugonia’. His second album is a similarly strange and evocative meditation on memory and grief.

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Joy, pain and resilience set the tone at Le Guess Who? 2025

Digging in to uphold true independent music values for communities and cultures from all over the world, Utrecht’s flagship alternative festival was a four-day beacon of innovative music and raw emotion.

  • Profiles

For Marla Kether, the dancefloor is a space for community-building and collective joy

The bassist, producer, DJ and Kilengi Dance Party founder reflects on reconnecting with her Congolese heritage through music, learning through collaboration, and how shared intention can turn a crowd into a community.

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In Photos: Up Ya Archives at The Warehouse Project

Returning for its third – and biggest – edition yet at The Warehouse Project, Nia Archives’ club series returned to the Manchester venue last week for a five-stage, day-to-night takeover.

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Pay it Forward: Morris Kolontyrsky on William Basinski

Morris Kolontyrsky of cosmic metal band Blood Incantation praises ambient icon William Basinski, who recently opened a show for them in a Chicago cemetery.

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Circuit des Yeux
'Halo on the Inside'
Central Cee
'Can't Rush Greatness'
Shigeto
Cherry Blossom Baby
Nídia and Valentina
Estradas
Beabadoobee
'This Is How Tomorrow Moves'
Remi Wolf
Big Ideas
$uicideboy$
'New World Depression'
I Saw The TV Glow review Various Artists
I Saw the TV Glow (The Original Soundtrack)
Mount Kimbie
The Sunset Violent
Erika de Casier
Still
The Smile
Wall of Eyes
Shabazz Palaces
Robed in Rareness
Mitski
The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
Kylie
Tension
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
The Ones Ahead
Anohni and the Johnsons
My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross
Amaarae
Fountain Baby
Bar Italia
Tracey Denim
Avalon Emerson & the Charm
Avalon Emerson & the Charm
Yaeji
With a Hammer
μ-Ziq
1977
boygenius
the record
Yves Tumor
Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
100 gecs
10,000 gecs
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Moonchild Sanelly on movement, ritual and reconnecting with nature

For the third and final episode of ReRooted – a video series exploring artists’ connection to nature – The South African musician heads to Eastbourne’s coast for a sound sampling session by the sea.

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The perfect day at Simple Things: A Crack Magazine guide

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.

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We asked a classical music expert to break down Rosalía’s Berghain

Musician, broadcaster and ‘So, Hear Me Out’ host Linton Stephens unpacks the classical influences and references on Rosalía’s new single, ‘Berghain’.

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TTSSFU makes music for messy nights and messier mornings after

TTSSFU, a.k.a. Wigan-born, Manchester-based Tasmin Stephens, situates her bratty alt-rock firmly in the unchecked messiness of life in your twenties: romance, friendship and, of course, regrettable nights out.

  • Long Reads

Listen to a playlist celebrating the vibrant and diverse sounds of Miami, selected by Nick León

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

  • Long Reads

In Photos: Einhundert’s CODE.SWITCH

Einhundert’s three-day exploration of the club experience offered an insight into the creative process of some of electronic music’s top producers.

  • Mixes

Live from Nuits sonores: Justine Perry b2b Paula Koski

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.

  • Mixes

Live from Nuits sonores: TSVI b2b Surusinghe

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. 

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Live from Nuits sonores: Helena Hauff b2b DJ MELL G

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.

  • Long Reads

Live from Nuits sonores 2025: Listen to the mix series

Listen to three key sets from the 2025 edition of Nuits sonores: Helena Hauff b2b DJ MELL G, Justine Perry b2b Paula Koski, and TSVI b2b Surusinghe.

  • Long Reads

Beneath the surface: Listen to a playlist inspired by unseen worlds, dark rivers and hidden landscapes, selected by Tristwch Y Fenywod

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

  • Long Reads

In Photos: Lunchmeat Festival 2025

Lunchmeat Festival returned to Prague for its 16th edition with artists including Heith, Rainy Miller and Danny L Harle.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: MOGA Festival 2025

Across five days, MOGA Festival transformed the Moroccan coastal city of Essaouira into a sanctuary for electronic exploration. 

  • Profiles

Lucrecia Dalt: “I’m not fearing genre. I’m not fearing a lot”

After a health scare forced Lucrecia Dalt to reassess her usually high-velocity life, the experimental composer discovered both obsession and creative liberation in the stillness making her new album, ‘A Danger to Ourselves’.

  • Long Reads

Decoding the hypnotic staging and choreography in Mitski: The Land

Shot over three nights of Mitski’s ‘The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We’ tour, new film ‘Mitski: The Land’ captures the album’s haunting beauty in a live setting.

  • Long Reads

Listen to a playlist of ‘sparkle-pop songs’ selected by Joviale

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

  • Long Reads

Listen to a playlist of boundary-defying club tracks, selected by Nico Adomako

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

  • Long Reads

ADE 2025: This year’s essential panels and parties

The annual Amsterdam Dance Event returns next week for five days of sessions, panel talks, exhibitions, live shows and club nights.

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