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The May issue is here. Featuring Divide and Dissolve, Lauren Duffus, 2hollis, Nazanin Noori and more.
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  • 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

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.

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TIMES will present new multi-disciplinary performance ‘The Talk’ this festival season

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Paléo reveals 2025 line-up

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Beloved open-air party series SOUNDIT will debut its first festival this summer

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Horst Arts & Music festival announces 2025 programme

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LUXE, gyrofield and Kornél Kovács feature on Crack Magazine Loops Vol. 3: Chords, Pads and Ambience

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Junction 2 releases more names for 2025

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Watch DIIV discuss their latest evolution as a band

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Sónar+D releases programme for 2025

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MUTEK Montréal announces first wave of artists for 2025

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Flow Festival announces second wave of names for 2025

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Angela Davis, Sharon Van Etten and more headline the Royal Albert Hall this month

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XRDS – Crossroads Festival releases this year’s line-up

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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.

  • Profiles

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.

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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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sweet93 is making distorted dream-pop to zone out to

Blending honeyed melodies with walls of guitar fuzz and waves of fuzzy distortion, New York-based artist sweet93 is crafting a new dream-pop sound.

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Sunday Mix: Ciro Vitiello

Taking over this week’s Sunday Mix, Italian electronic artist Ciro Vitiello creates an immersive ambient soundscape built around his own field recordings and recent collaborations.

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Album Reviews

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
  • Profiles

Nemzzz: If You Can Build It

At 20 years old, Manchester rapper Nemzzz has earned a seat at the top table of British rap.

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Confidence in community: 10 Londoners on the impact of music charity YUAF

The Young Urban Arts Foundation provides accessible, vital spaces for young people to be empowered through music.

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YHWH Nailgun: “I remember thinking: what would I like to see instead of this bullshit?”

On their algorithm-defying, white-knuckle-inducing debut album ’45 Pounds’, New Yorkers YHWH Nailgun are taking a stand against the uber ironic cool of late-2010s indie rock.

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This new documentary captures the thrilling ferocity and enduring legacy of Fugazi’s live shows

‘We Are Fugazi From Washington, D.C.’ marks 20 years since the post-hardcore trailblazers’ final live show.

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SIM São Paolo 2025 spotlighted the artists and change makers shaping the future of music

São Paulo’s International Music Week looked firmly ahead to the future of the music industry, celebrating the hybrid sounds and rhythms of South America in the process.

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Ichiko Aoba’s Luminescent Creatures honours the interconnectedness of humankind and the natural world

‘Luminescent Creatures’ explores the innate connections humans have with both our surroundings and one another.

  • Long Reads

Festival Guide 2025

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

  • Lists

A cultural history of the 90s in 7 BRIT Awards moments

For better or worse, the BRITs offer a time capsule of a moment – and this was certainly true throughout the 90s. Relive the 20th century’s final hoorah via inflatable legs, fist fights and one dead sheep.

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How a studio accident helped shape Horsegirl‘s minimalist new sound

Horsegirl singer-guitarist Penelope Lowenstein recalls the session that sparked a more pared-back sound on the Chicago trio’s new album, ‘Phonetics On and On’.

  • Mixes

Crack Mix 603: Gallegos

Bristol-based DJ and producer Gallegos takes over this week’s Crack Mix with a high-energy hour that moves between breaks, heady house and hypnotic minimal.

  • Long Reads

Listen to a Valentine’s playlist of heavy metal love songs, lovingly selected by Crypt of the Wizard

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

  • Mixes

Crack Mix 602: D’Monk

Producer, DJ and multi-instrumentalist D’Monk takes the reigns this week with a 90-minute Crack Mix that dips between broken beat, old school house and jazz for the early hours.

  • Profiles

MCR-T knows what it is to be an insider and an outsider

The Live From Earth affiliate’s uncompromising, genre-mulching approach nods to Berlin’s countercultural legacy to create a sound that rejects tired clichés for something bracingly new.

  • Long Reads

“You find different corners of your personality in unknown spaces”: Lex Amor in conversation with Debby Friday

North London rapper Lex Amor and Canadian artist Debby Friday connect to discuss poetry, creative freedom and environment as inspiration.

  • Long Reads

Fifteen years on, the seductive glamour of HTRK’s Marry Me Tonight is more potent than ever

“You can imagine slow dancing with a cigarette in hand.”

  • Mixes

Live from MUTEK Montréal: Ciel

Toronto-based producer, DJ and classically trained pianist Ciel performs a live set built around her debut album, ‘Homesick’. 

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Live from MUTEK Montréal: Salar Ansari

For his set at the 25th anniversary edition of MUTEK Montréal, Salar Ansari crafted an eclectic mix built around a fluid sonic narrative.

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“It’s about construction” – How Daniel Blumberg built the monumental score for The Brutalist

Composer Daniel Blumberg breaks down his creative process for ‘The Brutalist”s sweeping score.

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