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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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Get tickets for Motion’s closing event in collaboration with Just Jack

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SHAPE+ announce its final artist list and new Bandcamp compilation

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C2C Festival announces new additions to 2025 line-up

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The Warehouse Project announces new shows for 2025 season

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Semibreve Festival announces second wave of artists for its 2025 programme

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Simple Things announces opening concert with Daniel Avery playing live and very special, closely affiliated guests

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The Maccabees announce Radio X Presents YALA! Records Stage at All Points East

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What’s happening at Open’er Festival this week

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Kneecap won’t be prosecuted over “kill your MP” video

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What not to miss at Barbican’s Feel the Sound exhibition this summer

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Blackhaine presents new Factory International-produced immersive show

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Kneecap release short film in solidarity with Palestine

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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.

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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.

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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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Noname: Speaking Truth

Since releasing ‘Sundial’ in 2023, Noname has poured her energy into two projects that reflect the spirit of her political views: Noname Book Club and Radical Hood Library. With these outlets for her values, her music is swapping theory for something more human.

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How jazz-punk quartet Maruja prevailed in spite of their surroundings

On their debut album, ‘Pain to Power’, Manchester-based band Maruja channels political rage into a stirring call for sincerity, solidarity and collective hope.

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Annahstasia is ready to grow into the artist she was always meant to be

After spending her twenties travelling the world and having her career dictated by others, Nigerian-American singer-songwriter Annahstasia is finding her truest form as an artist on her new album, ‘Tether’ – in the city she has always called home.

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Paléo Festival through five key performances

From local favourites and rising names to international artists and crowd-pulling headliners, Switzerland’s Paléo Festival delivered a vast and varied programme with highlights from the likes of Moonchild Sanelly, Toccororo, and Asmâa Hamzaoui and Bnat Timbouktou.

  • Profiles

Pavements director Alex Ross Perry on portraying the band’s chaos and contradictions

With its blurring of documentary, fiction and musical film genres, ‘Pavements’ is a conceptual counter to bland rock docs and legacy biopics – and nearly as contradictory as the band it celebrates.

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Polifonic Festival Puglia 2025 through five key performances

Dar Disku, Chloé Caillet and Simo Cell were among the highlights at this year’s edition of the beachside festival.

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In Photos: Junction 2

Junction 2 returned to London’s Boston Manor Park for its ninth edition last weekend, with Helena Hauff, Midland and Mount Kimbie on the bill.

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In Photos: Jazzablanca Festival 2025

Jazzablanca Festival’s 2025 edition took place over ten days in Casablanca, with standout performances from Nubya Garcia, Alfa Mist and Ezra Collective.

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DJ Haram is channelling her fury at the state of everything into a hypnotic debut album

After a decade spent confounding expectations, New York-based producer and Moor Mother collaborator DJ Haram shifts course once again on her debut album, ‘Beside Myself’.

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In Photos: London Trans+ Pride 2025

Photographer Eliza Hatch was there to capture joy and resistance at Saturday’s London Trans+ Pride march, which broke records as it the biggest event of its kind in the world.

  • Long Reads

Listen to a playlist curated by multidisciplinary artist GAUNT

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

  • Lists

“A Brummie legend and a hero of magical nihilism” – We asked Warren Ellis, Daniel Avery and more to reflect on the legacy of Ozzy Osbourne

11 artists and lifelong fans reflect on a one-of-a-kind voice that redefined dark music and made the loudest sounds feel deeply human.

  • Mixes

Crack Mix 608: Melé

Liverpool-based DJ, producer and Club Bad head honcho Melé delivers over an hour of dynamic percussive sounds for his Crack Mix, moving through hypnotic tribal house, afro house, techno and more.

  • Long Reads

Pay It Forward: Verraco on Robert Del Naja

TraTraTrax co-founder Verraco on the seismic influence of the Massive Attack co-founder.

  • Profiles

ABUL3EES captures the realities of everyday life in occupied Palestine

ABUL3EES is documenting the details of daily life through introspective tracks shaped by Arabic hip-hop, his local scene, and the full spectrum of American rap.

  • Long Reads

Stone Techno Festival 2025 through five key performances

Held at a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Essen, this year’s edition of Stone Techno Festival featured standout sets from Helena Hauff, DVS1, and CCL b2b Priori.

  • Long Reads

In photos: Blackhaine‘s And Now I Know What Love Is at MIF25

Last week, former Crack Magazine cover star Blackhaine premiered his immersive ‘And Now I Know What Love Is’ performance as part of Manchester International Festival 2025.

  • Long Reads

Listen to a playlist of tracks Anetha‘s had on repeat this summer

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

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