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  • Open’er 2025 through five key performances

  • Radio alHara: Loud and Clear

  • Decoder: 10 lessons from the free party scene

  • Monheim Triennale's The Festival was a thrilling rush of borderless collaboration and virtuoso performance

  • “It's about building a vocabulary”: How Nitin Sawhney created the evocative score for A Tupperware of Ashes

  • A rural festival in spirit: LISB-ON 2025

  • In Photos: Kappa FuturFestival 2025

  • How Fontaines D.C.'s biggest show yet came to life on stage

  • The story of bubbling house: how a group of teenagers shaped a genre and never got their dues

  • Uncle Junior: "We used to get made fun of, but now it’s kind of cool"

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24hrs/Palestine is building a global network for collective action and resistance

The anti-imperialist, anti-colonial “global radio action” 24hrs/Palestine strives to demonstrate the interconnectedness of political struggles throughout the world.

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Block9 announces programme for 2025

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MUTEK Montréal reveals full line-up for 2025 programme

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Detroit’s Movement Festival completes line-up for 2025

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Polifonic announces full line-up for its 2025 programme

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James K and Pavel Milyakov set to play midsummer prelude concert for Solstice Festival

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Athens Epidaurus Festival announces Arca live show

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SHAPE+ announces showcases at Cafe OTO, Jogja Noise Bombing, and JellyZone

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Sign a letter of solidarity to the trans community from the UK music industry

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Massive Attack release statement defending Kneecap

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Simple Things announces first names for 2025

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FIGURA reveals line-up for Seeing in Dreams

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South Facing adds Central Cee to the line-up for Big Smoke Festival 2025

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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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24hrs/Palestine is building a global network for collective action and resistance

The anti-imperialist, anti-colonial “global radio action” 24hrs/Palestine strives to demonstrate the interconnectedness of political struggles throughout the world.

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Open’er 2025 through five key performances

Returning with a line-up that spanned rap, pop, and techno and featured some of the biggest names in music, Poland’s Open’er Festival saw standout performances from Little Simz, Fcukers, Doechii, Brutalismus 3000, and Nemzzz.

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Decoder: 10 lessons from the free party scene

‘Free Party: A Folk History’ director Aaron Trinder walks us through the guiding principles and lasting legacies of an often-overlooked chapter of British counterculture.

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Monheim Triennale‘s The Festival was a thrilling rush of borderless collaboration and virtuoso performance

In a programme bursting with top-tier talent from across ‘new music’, a small town in the Rhineland welcomed back 16 visionary artists to develop ideas and deliver their signature projects.

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“It’s about building a vocabulary”: How Nitin Sawhney created the evocative score for A Tupperware of Ashes

Composer Nitin Sawhney reflects on building the vivid, Bengali-influenced score for Tanika Gupta’s ‘A Tupperware of Ashes’.

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In Photos: Kappa FuturFestival 2025

Kappa FuturFestival transformed Turin’s Parco Dora into a techno playground for its 12th edition, with heavyweights like Helena Hauff, Donato Dozzy and Surgeon on the bill.

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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
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Pay it forward: Lila Tirando a Violeta on David Cronenberg

The Ireland-based Uruguyan experimental artist Lila Tirando a Violeta explains how prophetic filmmaker David Cronenberg remains a perennial influence on her.

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Listen to Dar Disku’s three-hour introduction to dance music from the SWANA region

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

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The universe of Leigh Bowery in 10 tracks

From 80s disco anthems to underground club classics, via Massive Attack, David Bowie, and Leigh Bowery’s own crew of creative collaborators, here are ten tracks to pull you into his strange, influential world.

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Cue Points: Dr Banana

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: Sónar Lisboa 2025

Sónar Lisboa’s 2025 highlights included sets from Jeff Mills, Modeselektor, Josh Caffé, Bitter Babe, DJ Firmeza b2b Nick León and more.

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BRDCST 2025 through five key performances

From Blackhaine to Colin Stetson, Stian Westerhus and Erland Dahlen’s band 10¹⁷ , look back on five key performances from this year’s edition of Ancienne Belgique’s annual BRDCST festival.

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Sunday Mix: Penelope Trappes

Penelope Trappes takes over this week’s Sunday Mix with an hour of experimental sounds curated by candlelight in the week leading up to the release of her new album, ‘A Requiem’. 

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

In this excerpt from his new book, ‘Songs in the Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age’, Liam Inscoe-Jones unravels how SOPHIE discovered the device that would become her most beloved collaborator.

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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, YHWH Nailgun, Kali Malone and more.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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“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.

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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.

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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.

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