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  • Cue Points: Olof Dreijer

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  • In Photos: How USV are creating a new sonic identity for LOST Music Festival

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  • Listen to a playlist of FLINTA artists duendita returns to when feeling lost

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  • Decoding… The art of film scoring, according to Colin Stetson

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Listen to a playlist inspired by the musical world of Paco Rabanne

A playlist compiling tracks released by Paco Rabanne’s 80s record label, Paco Rabanne Design.

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Solstice Festival expands 2026 line-up

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Boards of Canada announce new record, Inferno

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Listen to Boards of Canada’s first new music in 13 years

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Massive Attack and Tom Waits release ‘Boots On The Ground’

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Live Nation operated as illegal monopoly, jury finds

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Gaswerk Music Days sets 2026 dates with first artist announcement

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Madonna shares first track teaser for ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor: Part II’

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Italy’s Limbo festival completes line-up

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Wireless Festival cancelled

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Kanye West blocked from entering the UK

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Open’er Festival expands 2026 bill with new wave of artists

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Prospa announce debut album, ‘Free Your Mind’

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Best festivals of 2026: Our pick of the year’s most essential events

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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Listen to a playlist inspired by the musical world of Paco Rabanne

A playlist compiling tracks released by Paco Rabanne’s 80s record label, Paco Rabanne Design.

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In Photos: Johnnie Walker Black at GALA 2026

Johnnie Walker Black kicked off festival season by bringing its Keep Walking campaign to GALA’s 11th edition in Peckham Rye Park.

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Screen Time: kwes.

This is Screen Time – a new series where artists share the digital spaces that inspire, inform, and distract them.

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Cue Points: Olof Dreijer

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.

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In Photos: How USV are creating a new sonic identity for LOST Music Festival

Ahead of this year’s edition, Turin’s USV Collective is expanding its hand-built sound system to help shape a new sonic identity for the festival.

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Pay it Forward: keiyaA on D’Angelo

keiyaA reflects on the potent influence of D’Angelo’s ‘Black Messiah’, and how it inspired her to rethink what Black music is on her current album, ‘hooke’s law’.

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Egypt’s new underground: Listen to the mix series

Tune into mixes from five artists shaping Egypt’s new underground: Jana, Azzouni, El Kontessa, Rozer, and El Mokh.

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Egypt’s New Underground: Rozer

Half-Egyptian, half-Palestinian artist Rozer merges his deep knowledge of traditional regional sounds with modern experimental club music. This mix is for the late hours, when the floor settles and the crowd locks in.

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Egypt’s New Underground: Azzouni

In this mix, made for when the night is almost over but you don’t want to slow down, Cairo-based producer, DJ and community organiser Azzouni drifts through dub, dancehall, leftfield bass and beyond.

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Egypt’s New Underground: El Mokh

Mansoura-born producer El Mokh’s hour-long mix moves though shaabi, bass, and club sounds from his local scene and beyond.

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Egypt’s New Underground: El Kontessa

Cario-based producer, DJ and multidisciplinary artist El Kontessa curates a 45-minute mix for peak club intensity: “pulsing lights, speakers shaking the walls, and the kind of energy that makes everything feel intense and alive.”

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Egypt’s New Underground: Jana

Cairo-based DJ and producer Jana moves through deconstructed club and bass sounds, featuring cuts from EsDeeKid, Fakemink and Vince Staples.

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The new generation of artists shaping Egypt’s electronic underground

Juan Valero, a sound researcher, Radio alHara host and artist better known as Sono Mayrit, and Diego Hernández, a DJ and head of Berlin’s Eck Echo platform, explore the innovative sounds defining Egypt’s contemporary music scene.

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“The most ‘real’ we’ve ever sounded”: Stephen O’Malley on sunn O)))’s return

The masters of vibrational low-end intensity, sunn O))), are back with their first album of new material since 2019. Here, Stephen O’Malley reflects on the enduring power of durational music and the eternal desire for transcendence.

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Sunday Mix: Carla dal Forno

Australia’s master of darkwave folk, Carla dal Forno, takes over this week’s Sunday Mix with an hour of sun-soaked Aussie pop.

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Adventures in sound: Inside Rewire 2026

Rewire’s 15th edition marked its biggest, boldest programme yet, with standout sets from Los Thuthanaka, Tony Bontana and Caterina Barbieri.

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bed are here to break the system

With their combative live performances, doom-laden rave rock and manifesto ripped from a cyberpunk novel, bed started out with one aim: to upend the music scene in their native Tokyo. Now, they are moving into phase two – taking their mission worldwide.

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RIP Corsica Studios: 6 DJs on the no-frills ethos of one of South London’s defining clubs

Ben UFO, Jyoty, Raji Rags, Peach, Lagoon Femshayma and DJ Pitch reflect on their first nights and favourite memories at Corsica, what made it special, and what club culture can learn from its legacy.

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Crack Mix 614: abentis

DJ and producer abentis takes over this week’s Crack Mix with a selection that celebrates the left-field dance scene in his city, Nagoya.

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In Photos: BRDCST 2026

BRDCST Festival returned to Brussels with standout curated evenings from Ichiko Aoba, Keeley Forsyth and Stephen O’Malley.

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My New Band Believe’s debut pushes against “stale and predictable” singer-songwriter music

Cameron Picton on starting his new project, My New Band Believe, and adapting its 20-plus-musician debut for the stage.

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“Those who made it in are calling it legendary”: Inside Xaviersobased’s frenetic London show

The high-energy show spanned old favourites and new, more experimental material. Outside, chaos over strict venue rules only added to the hype.

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The sound of memory: Akinola Davies Jr, Duval Timothy and CJ Mirra on scoring My Father’s Shadow

In Akinola Davies Jr’s BAFTA-winning ‘My Father’s Shadow’, Duval Timothy and CJ Mirra’s richly layered score fills the spaces between words unspoken.

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In Photos: Somerset House Studios’ Assembly

Performances from felicita, Laurel Halo with Hanne Lippard, and Mark Fell with Mohammad Reza Mortazavi were highlights at Somerset House Studios’ bi-annual arts and music gathering.

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