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  • Dr Martens: All Access

  • Cover story: Connecting... Oneohtrix Point Never

  • 10 funding resources for electronic music creatives, as selected by Mina

  • Simo Cell is powering up

  • Joji Koyama and Tujiko Noriko on filmmaking, friendship and artistic fusion

  • L'Rain is moving closer

  • BCUC are finding strength in numbers

  • Mixes

Sunday Mix: Metrist

Another side to Metrist. The producer and sound designer delivers a dramatic mix of graceful piano, ghostly voices and emotionally fraught strings to soundtrack your Sunday

  • News

Katy B, TSHA and Mount Kimbie’s Kai Campos join programme for Brighton’s Patterns

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Overmono, Tkay Maidza and Kendrick Lamar feature on EA Sports FC 24 soundtrack

  • News

Skepta, Eliza Rose and Call Super confirmed for Circoloco’s return to The Warehouse Project

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A new exhibition at Somerset House is celebrating Black British fashion

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The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst shares new book Goth: A History

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There was a Dean Blunt soundtrack at Burberry’s Summer 2024 fashion show

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Positive Education announces programme of talks and workshops for 2023

  • News

Bar Italia announce new album, The Twits, and share lead single, My Little Tony

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Deena Abdelwahed, Floating Points and Olof Dreijer announced for Stone Island Presents London

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Kelman Duran, Susu Laroche and Mun Sing to play live shows at London’s Venue MOT

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Phonox announces autumn and winter 2023 programme

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Chrisman drops new single Late Siren, announces album for Hakuna Kulala

  • Long Reads

Crack Mix 500

Crack’s flagship mix series celebrates its 500th instalment with a Block9 takeover. Venture in for archive mixes from the Glastonbury fields from GIDEÖN, Neneh Cherry, Masters and Work and more

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Crack Magazine’s Festival Guide 2023

An ongoing, regularly-updated directory of festivals and events taking place around the world this year, in 2023 – handpicked by Crack Magazine

  • Playlists

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

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

  • Mixes

Sunday Mix: Metrist

Another side to Metrist. The producer and sound designer delivers a dramatic mix of graceful piano, ghostly voices and emotionally fraught strings to soundtrack your Sunday

  • Long Reads

Melenas curate a transportive playlist to “carry you to different landscapes”

With their new album ‘Ahora’ out today, the Spanish four-piece provides a Selections playlist featuring bar italia, Lil Ugly Mane, Operating Theatre and more

  • Mixes

Boofy

“I tried to encapsulate what style and journey of music I love to play in sets, but also what direction Sector 7 is heading in… it almost feels like I’m reintroducing myself. Boofy 2.0.”

  • Long Reads

Glasser delves into her feel-good songs in new playlist

Featuring Melati ESP, Arp, Fatima Al Qadiri, ascendant vierge and more

  • Mixes

Sextile

This is Sextile, swinging by the Crack Mix series to extend an invitation into an alternate dimension powered by dance

  • Long Reads

Water from Your Eyes share the songs that have touched their hearts

From Debussy to a chilled rework of the Beatles via King Crimson, Blondie, the Avalanches and more

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Album Reviews

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
Fever Ray
Radical Romantics
Kelela
Raven
Various Artists
A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto – To the Moon and Back
Special Interest
Endure
Theo Parrish
DJ-Kicks: Detroit Forward
Shygirl
Nymph
Slipknot
The End, So Far
The Comet Is Coming
Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
Vieux Farka Touré and Khruangbin
Ali
Rina Sawayama
Hold the Girl
Crack Cloud
Tough Baby
Jockstrap
I Love You Jennifer B
George Riley
Running in Waves
  • Profiles

Slipknot’s Corey Taylor on hitting rock bottom and the live performance that helped him back up

CW: suicide. This feature is part of The Click series, taken from our print magazine

  • Mixes

DJ Spit

The Berlin-based DJ supplies a set he describes as fusing “futuristic energy and laid-back breaky rhythms to make your seasonal adventures even more memorable”

  • Profiles

Simo Cell is powering up

Known for his unconventional approach to club bangers, the French producer and DJ is swapping the instant hit for the long game as he readies his debut album, ‘Cuspide des Sirènes’

  • Live Reviews

Forwards Festival 2023: Highlights from an impressive second edition

Five key shows that made Forwards 2023 one to remember, featuring SCALER, Aphex Twin, Erykah Badu, Obongjayar and Confidence Man

  • Mixes

Music to Pull Your Strings: Mixed by Async Figure

Ahead of their new release on Tzusing’s Sea Cucumber imprint, Async Figure explore “the more heartfelt, emotional side of our productions” with their Specialist Mix

  • Long Reads

Listen to Static Dress’ playlist of tracks that influenced Rouge Carpet Disaster (Redux)

Ahead of their album being reissued on Roadrunner Records, the Leeds post-hardcore band curate a playlist featuring Ethel Cain, 100 Gecs, Converge, Puma Blue and more

  • Mixes

Aunty Rayzor

Aunty Rayzor’s heaters-filled mix for our flagship series is dedicated to underground rap from Nigeria and recent (“and not so recent”) faves from the Lagos scene

  • Profiles

L’Rain is moving closer

After her searingly emotional debut in 2017, and its critically lauded follow-up, L’Rain is striving to bring some fun and self-invention to the po-faced world of experimental music

  • Profiles

Rising: Enter the searing soundworlds of Plattenbau

Plattenbau offer a take on contemporary life that’s anything but prefabricated. We meet the spirited post-punk four-piece to discuss their new record, ‘Net Prophet’

  • Mixes

Sunday Mix: Alabaster DePlume

Alabaster DePlume turns to artists who have inspired him or brought him feelings of “hope, recognition, joy and humanity” as he conjures a gorgeous, homey and jazz-driven mix

  • Mixes

Mun Sing

For our latest Crack Mix, Mun Sing – aka Harry Wright also of Giant Swan renown – creates “a mix that sounds like you’re being flung into loads of different afterlifes and then returned to Earth”

  • Profiles

Connecting… Oneohtrix Point Never

The music of Oneohtrix Point Never cleaves to a dream logic. For a glowing tenth album, pop’s resident disruptor and the Weeknd collaborator is revisiting past selves. Sasha Geffen learns more for the September cover story

  • Live Reviews

Re-encounters and intimacy: Meakusma Weekender 2023 through five outstanding acts

In a weekend filled with notable performances, here’s five highlights from Meakusma Weekender 2023.

  • Long Reads

Cakes Da Killa curates a playlist inspired by “the frequency of the Black queer experience”

Featuring Yaya Bey, Erykah Badu, Georgia Anne Muldrow and more

  • Long Reads

Converge’s Jane Doe triggered the experimental birth of metallic hardcore

Released 22 years ago today, Converge’s brutal, emotionally charged opus not only chronicles a personal disaster, but triggered the experimental birth of metallic hardcore

  • Long Reads

Aho Ssan provides “a delightful escape” with new playlist

Ahead of playing WOS Festival later this month, the Paris-based artist curates a playlist featuring Speakers Corner Quartet, Loraine James, Richie Culver, Lee Gamble and more

  • Mixes

Sunday Mix: Mandy, Indiana

Mandy, Indiana’s Sunday Mix offers “a noisy, wilfully disjointed listening experience” filled with tracks that have been with the band on their travels this year “in some form or other”

  • Live Reviews

MUTEK Montréal 2023: Five standout moments from the celebration of digital creativity

There are a few shows that stuck out from the 24th edition of MUTEK Montréal

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