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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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HARD Summer adds to 2025 line-up

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Shambala completes line-up for 2025

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Pohoda Festival reveals this year’s line-up

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No Bounds festival announces phase one of 2025 line-up

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Kappa FuturFestival announces stage splits for 2025

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Southbank Centre announces further events for Little Simz’ Meltdown

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SHAPE+ announces programme as part of Unsound’s Ephemera festival

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Le Guess Who? announces guest curators and first 100 artists for 2025

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Win tickets to the Barbican’s new Feel the Sound exhibition, Simple Things & more

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Skaņu Mežs Festival reveals first names for 2025 programme

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Semibreve Festival announces first wave of artists for 2025

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2025 IMS Business Report valued electronic music industry at $12.9 billion

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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.

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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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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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In Photos: Silver Hayes at Glastonbury 2025

Silver Hayes returned this year with five stages and a stacked programme spanning DJs, artists and speakers.

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

Taking cues from noise rock and their post-punk peers, London newcomers Uncle Junior are crafting their own eccentric take on harder-edged sounds.

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In Photos: MEO Kalorama 2025

The fourth edition of the Lisbon festival was lit up by standout performances from FKA twigs, Model/Actriz, and Helena Hauff.

  • Long Reads

Meet five DJs making their Block9 debut at Glastonbury this weekend

NYC Downlow, IICON and Genosys are about to be taken over by a wild cocktail of dance music from the South East Corner’s newest arrivals. 

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In Photos: OFFSónar 2025

What went down at the six-day event set at Barcelona’s open-air Poble Espanyol.

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What to watch at Glastonbury’s Silver Hayes, according to fashion designer Priya Ahluwalia

Ahead of her appearance on Glastonbury’s ‘Wearing The Change’ panel at The Information this year, the London-based fashion designer shares her eight must-see picks from the Silver Hayes line-up.

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Jadu Heart have unlocked a new chapter of creative freedom

Jadu Heart’s latest album was written in the wake of a breakup between the group’s two core members. Far from spelling disaster for the London experimentalists, the split opened up new avenues for exploration, reinvention and release.

  • Long Reads

Listen to a playlist of tracks Lime Garden have on repeat right now

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

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In Photos: Parklife 2025

Charli xcx and Jorja Smith were among the headliners for the festival’s 15th anniversary edition.

  • Lists

Decoder: A 10-step guide to deep listening

Percussionist and certified deep listening facilitator Dan Johnson – who has contributed to the book, ‘A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros’ – outlines some of the practice’s key principles.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: LIDO Festival 2025

For its debut edition, the festival hosted Outbreak for its first time in London and welcomed guest curators Charli xcx, Massive Attack, Jamie xx and London Grammar.

  • Long Reads

Pay It Forward: Nadah El Shazly on Kamilya Jubran

Egyptian-born, Montréal-based electronic composer Nadah El Shazly on how the Palestinian trailblazer Kamilya Jubran stretched her imagination.

  • Profiles

Cosey Fanni Tutti: Hold Your Ground

Recorded during a time of personal turmoil, Cosey Fanni Tutti’s new album, ‘2t2’, channels the same uncompromising spirit that has always made her such a vital and transgressive force.

  • Mixes

Crack Mix 606: Nic Krog

Berlin-based Danish musician and sound artist Nic Krog takes over this week’s Crack Mix with a mood board of sonic influences for their forthcoming EP, ‘Better Failing’.

  • Mixes

Sunday Mix: Lankum

Irish quartet Lankum take over this week’s Sunday Mix with just over an hour of traditional music, ambient sounds, Americana and more.

  • Long Reads

Listen to Mia Lily‘s playlist of dancefloor sounds from across the North

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

  • Long Reads

Listen to a playlist of Mathew Jonson‘s best Bandcamp jazz finds

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

  • Long Reads

Listen to a deep dive into Finnish dance music, selected by Sansibar

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

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