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In Photos: The art programme at Polifonic Puglia

This year, Polifonic returns to Puglia, Italy, for its eighth edition, with two new commissions joining a programme of installations that has grown alongside the festival itself.

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WHP reveals set times for this year’s Repercussion

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We’ve teamed up with MPB to commission photo series from three emerging photographers

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Rewire announces first artists and projects for 2026

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Open’er Festival announces second wave of artists for its 2026 edition

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Montreux Jazz Festival and Southbank Centre announce 2026 residency celebrating Miles Davis

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Pulp, CMAT, and Mac DeMarco to headline End of the Road 2026

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DJ and producer Jamback makes his debut on CircoLoco Records with ‘Positive’

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John Talabot and Richie Hawtin set to headline Polifonic Milano

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Music & Music Festivals as Change Drivers releases a new video featuring Luna Ersahin

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SHAPE+ Platform affiliates SWAI unveil new music video for their track Globoko

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Don Julio and Gabbriette are throwing a Día de Muertos party inside a London bakery

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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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In Photos: The art programme at Polifonic Puglia

This year, Polifonic returns to Puglia, Italy, for its eighth edition, with two new commissions joining a programme of installations that has grown alongside the festival itself.

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Rising: NEW YORK make music for walking around the city feeling cute

The London-based duo behind NEW YORK discuss their DIY beginnings, embracing a slower journey, and making deconstructed art pop for late-night scrolling.

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La Nature Festival through five key performances

Deep in the Belgian Ardennes, La Nature Festival pairs a secluded woodland setting with four days of bass-heavy, boundary-pushing electronic music.

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Iceage: Boys keep swinging

Iceage’s latest album, ‘For Love of Grace & the Hereafter’, sees them rediscover an intensity and urgency as only they can.

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In Photos: Solstice Festival 2026

Solstice Festival returned to northern Finland this summer solstice for three days of music, art and nature beneath the midnight sun.

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A playlist for the emotional stages of a food coma, selected by Model/Actriz bassist Aaron Shapiro

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

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Joy Crookes: “I could have easily been an artist that became guessable, and I didn’t”

On tour for her second album ‘Juniper’, Joy Crookes reflects on pushing her sound beyond her comfort zone, her favourite nights out this year, and creating spaces where people can feel free.

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The artists tapping into the mystery of the ancient and elemental

A new wave of artists is illuminating the present day with often strange, experimental music that blends traditional and elemental sounds with notions of queerness, ancestry, diaspora and resistance.

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How María Talaverano found creative freedom as valverdina

Now focusing fully on her alias, valverdina, the Madrid-based artist is moving away from the city’s indie-pop scene into a more experimental one.

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Live shows are still vital for emerging artists breaking through. This startup is streamlining the process

The live music bookings industry has long been tangled in red tape and middlemen. GigPig, a UK-based hospitality music marketplace, says it’s time for a cultural reset.

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Tortoise are covering new ground

Chicago’s returning motorik post-rockers Tortoise prove there’s always fresh terrain to explore with ‘Touch’ – a shape-shifting project crafted across cities and pulsing with restless curiosity.

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Sunday Mix: DoomCannon

South London’s DoomCannon puts together a restorative Sunday Mix with tracks from the likes of Donny Hathaway, James Brown and Kamasi Washington.

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Thundercat: The Long Game

As he gears up for his next act, Thundercat is channelling the wisdom gleaned from his friend Mac Miller and his beloved boxing regime to stop forcing it and trust the process.

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In Photos: Glasgow’s DIY club scene through the lens of local creative Jock Thomson

The photographer and DRIP co-founder documents the energy of his city’s queer scene with photographs that feel sweaty, immediate and alive.

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The New Eves: “If people still think we’re whimsical, they won’t after this”

The Brighton band on their debut album, ‘The New Eve Is Rising’, being real, and being ready to get called weird.

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The Top 50 Tracks of 2025

The tracks that defined the year, in ways big and small.

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The Top 50 Albums of 2025

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In Photos: Inside London’s Paraíso School of Samba, shot by Mariana Pires

Visual artist Mariana Pires documents a London community preserving the traditions of Brazilian samba culture within the city.

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Jessie Reyez is learning to live in the moment

Jessie Reyez is unstoppable. She’s collaborated with Lil Yachty and Miguel, penned hits for Dua Lipa and, most recently, released her second book of poetry. Now, after years of laying the groundwork, the Canadian-Colombian is stepping into a radical, fearless confidence.

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Decoding… The legacy of electronic music visionary Daphne Oram

Frances Morgan of the Daphne Oram Trust reflects on the composer and musician’s radical vision and lasting influence.

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Crack Mix 611: x3butterfly

Mexican-American DJ and producer x3butterfly takes over this week’s Crack Mix with an hour of peak-time party sounds, darting from bass to electro to breakbeat and back again.

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How C Prinz choreographed Charli xcx’s “feverish, fearless” new era

The filmmaker and choreographer breaks down her collaboration with Charli xcx for her post-‘brat’ era.

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Jerskin Fendrix on grief, memory and growing up in the sticks

Jerskin Fendrix emerged from south London’s idiosyncratic Windmill scene before being tapped by Yorgos Lanthimos to compose the scores for ‘Poor Things’ and ‘Bugonia’. His second album is a similarly strange and evocative meditation on memory and grief.

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Joy, pain and resilience set the tone at Le Guess Who? 2025

Digging in to uphold true independent music values for communities and cultures from all over the world, Utrecht’s flagship alternative festival was a four-day beacon of innovative music and raw emotion.

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