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The October issue is here. Featuring Sasha Keable, Blawan, Lucrecia Dalt, Brighter Days Family, TTSSFU, and more.
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  • The perfect day at Simple Things: A Crack Magazine guide

  • Ziúr and Iggor Cavalera on community, resistance and belonging beyond borders

  • Mucho Flow 2025 through five key performances

  • Moonchild Sanelly on movement, ritual and reconnecting with nature

  • Semibreve celebrated fifteen years of experimental sound in Braga

  • We asked a classical music expert to break down Rosalía’s Berghain

  • Listen to a playlist celebrating the vibrant and diverse sounds of Miami, selected by Nick León

  • TTSSFU makes music for messy nights and messier mornings after

  • Live from Nuits sonores 2025: Listen to the mix series

  • Lucrecia Dalt: "I’m not fearing genre. I’m not fearing a lot”

  • Decoding the hypnotic staging and choreography in Mitski: The Land

  • Beneath the surface: Listen to a playlist inspired by unseen worlds, dark rivers and hidden landscapes, selected by Tristwch Y Fenywod

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Ziúr and Iggor Cavalera on community, resistance and belonging beyond borders

Ahead of their performances at Le Guess Who? Festival this weekend, experimental artist Ziúr and metal legend Iggor Cavalera discuss life-changing music and life-affirming connections.

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What to expect at HARD Summer Festival this weekend

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South Facing announces second stage line-up for Love Motion

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Mix With The Masters announces 2025 ReBalance Scholarship alongside masterclass with Catherine Marks

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Simple Things completes its main festival line-up with Nala Sinephro, Clark, The Bug and more

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No Bounds Festival reveals the next phase of its 2025 programme

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All Points East reveals new artists for opening show with Cleo Sol

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Mura Masa launches new zine celebrating grassroots music culture across the UK

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Sicily’s Ortigia Music announces line-up for 2025

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SON Estrella Galicia’s Soundhood Hackney returns this September

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Simple Things completes week-long programme with Moin, John Maus, Autechre and more

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WOS Festival announces first wave of acts for 2025

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Palomosa Festival reveals the line-up for its 2025 edition

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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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Ziúr and Iggor Cavalera on community, resistance and belonging beyond borders

Ahead of their performances at Le Guess Who? Festival this weekend, experimental artist Ziúr and metal legend Iggor Cavalera discuss life-changing music and life-affirming connections.

  • Long Reads

Mucho Flow 2025 through five key performances

Delivering on its promise to spotlight cutting-edge avant-garde sounds, Mucho Flow’s artfully curated 12th edition honed in on left-field pop, atmospheric shoegaze and experimental noise.

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Semibreve celebrated fifteen years of experimental sound in Braga

For 2025, Braga’s long-running experimental music festival deepened its conceptual focus on listening as a communal creative act.

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In Photos: Llais Festival 2025

The arts festival returned to the Wales Millennium Centre with a week-long programme of live music from the likes of Mabe Fratti, Meredith Monk and Beverly-Glenn Copeland.

  • Profiles

Moonchild Sanelly on movement, ritual and reconnecting with nature

For the third and final episode of ReRooted – a video series exploring artists’ connection to nature – The South African musician heads to Eastbourne’s coast for a sound sampling session by the sea.

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The perfect day at Simple Things: A Crack Magazine guide

Bristol’s venue-hopping all-dayer returns this Saturday, 8 November with a programme co-curated by Crack Magazine, Team Love, and the Bristol Beacon. From Nala Sinephro to Steve Davis, here are our top picks for the day.

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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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RALLY 2025 through five key performances

RALLY returned to South London’s Southwark Park last weekend for its third edition, spotlighting left-field pop, stirring live jazz and esoteric house, with standout sets from Moin, Geordie Greep and Nosedrip b2b Orpheu the Wizard. 

  • Long Reads

Decoding the quiet influence of The Raincoats

In her new book, ‘Shouting Out Loud: Lives of The Raincoats’, author Audrey Golden traces how the band inspired generations of music and movements, from Sonic Youth to riot grrrl to queercore.

  • Long Reads

Listen to a party playlist selected by Sir Hiss

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

  • Profiles

james K is hopping between soundworlds with curiosity and precision

Inspired by the communality of the club,  james K’s vision of connection coalesces on her latest album ‘Friend’ – a pop-forward hybrid evoking both nostalgia and futurism.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: Brunch Electronik Barcelona 2025

Over 90 artists and DJs performed across four days at this year’s edition of Brunch Electronik, which took place across Barcelona’s Poble Espanyol and Parc del Fòrum.

  • Long Reads

We Out Here 2025 through five key performances

This month, We Out Here returned to Dorset with a four-day programme spanning music, talks, art, wellness and more.

  • Long Reads

“Stand with justice. Don’t stand with genocide” – On the ground with protestors outside the Kneecap court hearing

Hundreds gathered on Wednesday morning to demand that the terror charges against Mo Chara be dropped.

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Pay It Forward: Brìghde Chaimbeul on Martyn Bennett

Scottish smallpiper Brìghde Chaimbeul reflects on the influence that Canadian-Scottish musician Martyn Bennett had on her mesmerising sound.

  • Profiles

Jeshi: “Sometimes physically removing yourself from your bubble helps you gain clarity”

The UK rapper swaps east London for leafy Richmond Park for a sampling session.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: Neopop 2025

For its 18th edition, Neopop Festival returned to Portugal’s Viana do Castelo with the theme ‘Interplanetary Dance Music’.

  • Profiles

Montréal hip-hop trio Planet Giza are keeping it real

The trio are tapping into personal experience and the lesser-spotted influence of early 2000s rap-R&B link-ups to create something timeless.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: Nowadaze 2025

Returning for its third edition, Nowadaze championed its local community for a weekend of creative freedom and expression.

  • Long Reads

Enter the otherworldly realm of Sex Week

Listen to an intimate and personal playlist from Sex Week.

  • Long Reads

Future Generations: Kevin Saunderson’s e-Dancer alias is now a father-son project

Ahead of new shows, we catch up with the first family of techno to talk Reese bass inheritance, the evolution of the Detroit underground and growing up among the greats.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: Ortigia Music 2025

Sicily’s Ortigia Music Festival turned the island into a dreamlike soundscape in early August, with a line-up including Modeselektor, Max Cooper, and Bambounou.

  • Profiles

Tracey make anxious anthems for the post-afters bus ride

The anonymous London collective’s genre mashing sound is a vehicle for their observations on sex, shame and doormats.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: HARD Summer 2025

HARD Summer returned to LA’s Hollywood Park with an A-list roster for its 17th edition, with Joy Orbison, Four Tet, and Fcukers on the bill.

  • Long Reads

Temporary Pleasure have turned the carpark rave into art

The architecture and rave collective bring boy racer culture and Y2K era soundsystems to the Barbican’s ‘Feel The Sound’ exhibition with a new project, ‘Joyride’. Founder John Leo Gillen talks about the idea behind it: cars and clubbing.

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