A breath is exhaled. A tear lands and spreads across laptop keys. A shattered copy of Junglepussy’s Satisfaction Guaranteed lies on the floor near our feet, a metaphor for broken…

Temples Festival returned for its second year, and judging by the range of international accents to be heard around the Motion complex, the word has spread far beyond its South…

A rolling, regularly-updated directory of essential events in the UK, Europe and beyond – handpicked by Crack Magazine. Check back in monthly for new line-ups, eye-opening curation, stunning locations and…

The best tunes we heard online in the last seven days. It’s been one heck of a week for the UK. There was that initial rush of excitement, the feeling…

Dylan Carlson has this joke. It’s one that’s been parroted for over a decade now. “I joke I only had one good idea in my lifetime and have decided to…

Parc Del Forum, Barcelona 28-30 May Primavera turned 15 this year, which may not necessarily seem like that big of a deal, but as a multiple of 5, it kind…

…schedule. These new additions join previously announced acts, which include Objekt, Sunn O))) and Moor Mother. The festival’s theme for 2019 is ‘Solidarity’. Unsound aims to “emphasise notions of community…

…and Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley. Elsewhere, Stereolab curate a bill with Yama Warashi, Moin, Kali Malone and Moor Mother-fronted free jazz group Irreversible Entanglements all set to perform. For Heba…

The first wave of artists has been revealed for the Kraków festival. Holly Herndon and Sunn O))) have been confirmed for Unsound Festival, which will be taking over the city…

…would you find the king of wiggy synth-pop (Wally Badarou), live electro (Deena Abdelwahed), chaotic interstellar jazz (Comet is Coming) and doom-mongering pagan priests (Sunn O)))) on the same bill?…

…beginnings to medieval troubadours, Sufi mystics and the ritual amp worship of Earth and Sunn O))). Crack Supporters can watch the livestream and submit questions via the Supporters hub –…

They couldn’t set the piano on fire. That was the only bad news. Annea Lockwood, the New Zealand born composer and academic whose work provided a curatorial north star for…

Here’s the five artists we’ve had on repeat this month….

Philipp Gorbachev and his band KOLOKOL – which translates to “the bell” – curate the tracklist for this week’s Sunday Mix. As bell ringers and instrumentalists, KOLOKOL perform large AV…

Obviously TRAAMS know a thing or two about albums. Well, pretty obviously, because they’ve already recorded two of them. Their 2013 debut LP, Grin, was roundly welcomed by one and…

Jim Jarmusch has been making strange, often slow-moving films for decades now. Scratch the surface of nearly any Jarmusch flick and you’ll enjoy character depths, judicious dialogue and hauntingly beautiful…

Welcome to Crack’s monthly round-up of extreme music Make no mistake, the fringes of music are closing in on you. A world preoccupied by weighty, formless experiments, corpse painted theatrics…

Welcome to Crack’s monthly round-up of extreme music Make no mistake, the fringes of music are closing in on you. A world preoccupied by weighty, formless experiments, corpse painted theatrics…

Welcome to the Crack Magazine Staff Lists for 2017, a chance for our team and extended family to share their personal highlights from the last 12 months. Visit 2017.crackmagazine.net for…

Montréal during the annual MUTEK festival is a remarkable place, as the city’s Place des Arts art quarter is transformed into a breeding ground for visual and sonic creativity. Walking…