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  • Nazanin Noori's new exhibition asks us to reflect on an alternative political reality

  • Takiaya Reed: "I’ve built a whole entire world in my dreams"

  • Wax Works Berlin celebrated the physicality and craft of analogue recording

  • Model/Actriz: Come On Closer

  • sweet93 is making distorted dream-pop to zone out to

  • Moonchild Sanelly: "I’m looking for my coin, my power and what I can do with that"

  • Pay it forward: Lila Tirando a Violeta on David Cronenberg

  • The universe of Leigh Bowery in 10 tracks

  • Maria Somerville’s Luster is a love letter to people and place

  • In Photos: Sónar Lisboa 2025

  • Cue Points: Dr Banana

  • How a bootleg download led SOPHIE to the instrument that would power her sonic world-building

  • Lonnie Holley: “My legacy is showing people how to get over the hurdles”

  • “Art and music always come out of the collective”: Clarissa Connelly in conversation with Molina

  • 7 people on why they quit music streaming platforms

  • Profiles

Nazanin Noori‘s new exhibition asks us to reflect on an alternative political reality

In her first UK exhibition, multidisciplinary artist, DJ and ambient hardcore producer Nazanin Noori uses a cacophony of sound and visuals to shock us into imagining a vastly different alternative political present.

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FIBER Festival announces first names and theme for 2025

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Susu Laroche & MOBBS release video for ‘Roam’

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BERSHKA MUSIC is linking up with DICE again for 2025

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MEO Kalorama Festival completes this year’s line-up

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Berlin’s Kiezsalon announces 2025 programme

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Brunch Electronik and Mad Cool announce collaborative line-up for 2025 event

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Obongjayar announces UK tour

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Jeff Mills, Ivan Smagghe, Manfredas & more join Neopop line-up

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Glastonbury’s Silver Hayes announces 2025 programme

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Bloc Fest will host two events for its fifth edition this year

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Field Maneuvers announces this year’s programme

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C2C Festival announces this year’s theme, Per aspera ad astra (Through hardship to the stars)

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Festival Guide 2025

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

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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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Nazanin Noori‘s new exhibition asks us to reflect on an alternative political reality

In her first UK exhibition, multidisciplinary artist, DJ and ambient hardcore producer Nazanin Noori uses a cacophony of sound and visuals to shock us into imagining a vastly different alternative political present.

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Crack Mix 605: Maze

Berlin-based DJ Maze takes over this week’s Crack Mix with a house summer warmer for bleary-eyed mornings locked in on the dance floor.

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Takiaya Reed: “I’ve built a whole entire world in my dreams”

Now the sole full-time member of the instrumental project Divide and Dissolve, on her latest album, ‘Insatiable’, Takiaya Reed is channelling her low-end catharsis into a powerful message of profound love and resistance.

  • Long Reads

Wax Works Berlin celebrated the physicality and craft of analogue recording

At Wax Works Berlin, the Vinyl Alliance teamed up with Audio-Technica and optimal media to shine a light on the human craft of analogue recording and the superior sound quality it captures.

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Sunday Mix: Heith

For this week’s Sunday Mix Heith takes us on a journey through the music he’s been listening to recently, featuring tracks from Maria Somerville, k2dj, Tujiko Noriko and more.

  • Profiles

Model/Actriz: Come On Closer

On their highly anticipated second album ‘Pirouette’, Model/Actriz are bringing confrontation and charisma to the dancefloor.

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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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Conducting chaos: Rewire 2025 in 7 sounds

The mind-expanding festival returned for its 14th edition with performances from Laurie Anderson, YHWN Nailgun, Kali Malone and more.

  • Profiles

Lonnie Holley: “My legacy is showing people how to get over the hurdles”

Informed by a life beyond the imagination of most, outsider artist and musician Lonnie Holley has allowed intuition to guide his unflinching, often profound storytelling.

  • Long Reads

7 people on why they quit music streaming platforms

From poor pay for artists to general algorithm fatigue, dissatisfaction with mainstream streaming services has been mounting for some time. We spoke to seven people who decided to quit them for good. 

  • Lists

Protecting the beat: Three artists on safeguarding their hearing

HODGE, Salomé Wu, and LUXE share their personal approaches to hearing protection, from mindful listening habits to custom-moulded earplugs.

  • Mixes

Crack Mix 604: ICYKOF

To celebrate the release of his debut EP ‘ZERO SUGAR’, London-based DJ, artist and producer ICYKOF takes over this week’s Crack Mix.

  • Profiles

Bespoke sound system creators Friendly Pressure and Stone Island are teaming up for Milan Design Week

As he gears up for a Milan Design Week collaboration with Stone Island, Friendly Pressure founder Shivas Howard Brown talks formative sound system experiences and being part of a lineage of Black British music.

  • Long Reads

“Art and music always come out of the collective”: Clarissa Connelly in conversation with Molina

Copenhagen contemporaries Clarissa Connelly and Molina connect to discuss romanticism, harmonic experiments and the future of Denmark’s thriving experimental music scene.

  • Long Reads

Listen to a playlist of tracks that capture the spirit of ballroom, selected by Vogue Rites

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

  • Profiles

Purelink: Expanding Universe

As they ready their new album, ‘Faith’, the understated Chicago trio are learning that sometimes it’s the most unassuming voices that cut through the noise.

  • Profiles

Maria Somerville’s Luster is a love letter to people and place

Inspired by her return to Connemara, a region rich in Irish history and myth, Maria Somerville’s second album is shaped its spirit, spacious landscape and seasonal pace.

  • Profiles

Nabeel (نبيل) is seeking harmony between Iraqi culture and Virginia’s indie music scene

Merging college-rock influences with allusions to Iraqi heritage and musical traditions, Nabeel(نبيل)’s music is driven by both the preservation of culture and creating a new sound.

  • Long Reads

Cue Points: DJ Lomalinda

This is Cue Points, a series where DJs get granular with current tracks in their sets, giving us the low-down on what makes them work.

  • Mixes

Live from Field Maneuvers: Tasha b2b Alienata

Both dedicated heads with eclectic tastes across techno, drum ‘n’ bass, electro and much more, Tasha and Alienata came together for a peak-time sprawling techno set recorded at Field Maneuvers’ 2024 edition. Strap in.

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Live from Field Maneuvers: LCN

At last summer’s Field Maneuvers festival, Bristol-born producer, artist and DJ LCN raised the tempo with a high-energy set that balanced dark, bass-heavy sounds with good-time club bangers.

  • Mixes

Live from Field Maneuvers: Nadine Noor

DJ, consultant and Pxssy Palace co-founder Nadine Noor turned up the heat at Dalston Superstore’s Field Maneuvers takeover with an hour of dancefloor moving, all-systems-go, non-stop club bangers.

  • Mixes

Live from Field Maneuvers: Deena Abdelwahed

At Field Maneuvers Festival last summer, Deena Abdelwahed showed us how its done with a winding, two-hour set packed with bass, experimental sounds and complex rhythms.

  • Long Reads

Future Shock: AI versus the Dancefloor

AI’s champions promise democratisation, while its denouncers fear a devaluation of art as we know it. With electronic music scenes braced for impact, what exactly will the future sound like?

  • Album Reviews

Circuit des Yeux: Halo on the Inside Review

Finding freedom in the perverse once again, Haley Fohr, a.k.a. Circuit des Yeux, revels in primal, animalistic abandon to create a record that will stalk your nightmares.

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