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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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RALLY announces new names for 2025 edition

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Gaswerk Music Days announces full programme for 2025 edition

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Kneecap’s Mo Chara granted unconditional bail over terror offence charge

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Lunchmeat Festival announces first names for 2025

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Velvet Festival announces full line-up for its final edition

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Experience Tanika Gupta’s A Tupperware of Ashes at home with our National Theatre at Home deal

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Waking Life & Dreaming Live release fundraising compilation to help revive Gaza’s farmland

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South Facing reveals support for Mogwai and Lankum show

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SHAPE+ announces showcases in Almaty and Banja Luka

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Forwards Festival completes line-up for 2025

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Mura Masa announces new tour spotlighting grassroots talent beyond big cities

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Junction 2 festival completes line-up for 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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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.

  • Long Reads

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.

  • Long Reads

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
  • Mixes

Crack Mix 607: Al Wootton

Al Wootton brings his signature blend of experimental dub and percussive rhythms to this spacious, slow-burning mix built for the early hours.

  • Profiles

Stefan Christoff: “Media is not just about speaking to an imaginary audience, it’s movement-building”

Stefan Christoff is a journalist, musician and activist who contributes numerous programmes to Radio alHara. He advocates for using art as a tool for opening people’s minds.

  • Long Reads

A new project from BICEP gives voice to Indigenous musicians from the Arctic

Fronted by the Northern Irish dance music duo, ‘Takkuuk’ is an audiovisual collaboration that celebrates Indigenous Arctic culture while confronting the challenges posed by climate change and global pressures.

  • Live Reviews

This year’s Solstice Festival was a three-day celebration of creativity, community and experimental sounds

At its 2025 edition, the festival’s vibrant programme, community feel and otherworldly setting reaffirmed why it has become a yearly pilgrimage for so many.

  • Profiles

Soundcamp digs into the idea of “noise” as a form of solidarity

The artist cooperative explores ideas of shared listening and communality through DIY broadcasts of environmental sound – including field recordings from protests and demonstrations.

  • Profiles

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.

  • Live Reviews

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.

  • Lists

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.

  • Live Reviews

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.

  • Long Reads

“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’.

  • Long Reads

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.

  • Profiles

Radio alHara: Loud and Clear

Born out of boredom during the first lockdown, Palestinian online station Radio alHara has come to symbolise defiance and hope amid the unimaginable horrors of the Gazan genocide, giving voice to creative resistance in Palestine and across the world.

  • Live Reviews

A rural festival in spirit: LISB-ON 2025

Parkland and pine forests set the scene for the intimate Lisbon festival, where local DJs and 4/4 rhythms took centre stage and after parties spilled out into the city.

  • Long Reads

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

The lighting, production and video designers behind Fontaines D.C.’s monumental Finsbury Park headline show talk two-headed pigs, nu-grunge and lasers at the band’s biggest gig to date.

  • Profiles

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

The sound of one of the Netherlands’ only homegrown diasporic genres blew up clubs without ever troubling the mainstream. Now, its pioneers are finally getting their dues.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: Block9 at Glastonbury 2025

Genosys, IICON and NYC Downlow returned to Worthy Farm with fierce energy, political fire and a brand-new daytime party.

  • Long Reads

Best Nights VC is investing in the future of nightlife

Driven by a belief in the importance of community, club culture and shared experiences, Jägermeister’s Venture Capital Investment Unit is supporting the future-facing tech startups reshaping our social interactions.

  • Long Reads

The story and sound of Glastonbury 2025 in 10 standout moments

From powerful political protests to secret sets from Pulp and Lorde, via Doechii’s expectation-busting Glastonbury debut, here are the moments that made this year’s festival one to remember.

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