The September issue is here. Starring Oneohtrix Point Never, L’Rain, Simo Cell, BCUC, Yeule and more.
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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
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
An ongoing, regularly-updated directory of festivals and events taking place around the world this year, in 2023 – handpicked by Crack Magazine
A rolling playlist of the best new music, curated and regularly refreshed by Crack Magazine
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
“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.”
Featuring Melati ESP, Arp, Fatima Al Qadiri, ascendant vierge and more
This is Sextile, swinging by the Crack Mix series to extend an invitation into an alternate dimension powered by dance
From Debussy to a chilled rework of the Beatles via King Crimson, Blondie, the Avalanches and more
CW: suicide. This feature is part of The Click series, taken from our print magazine
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”
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’
Five key shows that made Forwards 2023 one to remember, featuring SCALER, Aphex Twin, Erykah Badu, Obongjayar and Confidence Man
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
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
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
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
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’
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
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”
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
In a weekend filled with notable performances, here’s five highlights from Meakusma Weekender 2023.
Featuring Yaya Bey, Erykah Badu, Georgia Anne Muldrow and more
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
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
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”
There are a few shows that stuck out from the 24th edition of MUTEK Montréal
