The water crisis will also receive $500,000 in ‘matched’ money from a water company West Coast rapper The Game has donated $500,000 in water bottles to the Flint Water Crisis….

Jimmy Cauty once burnt a million quid. He’s not supposed to talk about it, though – there’s a 23-year moratorium that bans him from talking about anything related to the…

…exudes a sexual force, the grumbling bass rolling under whispering vocals. Title track Too Many Voices is another stand out effort, sounding like something Oneohtrix Point Never might cook up…

With a shock of unruly, Sideshow Bob-esque hair and a habit of saying whatever the fuck is on his mind, Buzz Osborne – or King Buzzo to fans – commands…

…‘Superstar DJ’ (thanks Norman Cook), Babadoum have started a new night where you can’t even see the booth. It’s not a new concept, the likes of Underground Resistance and DJ…

Martha and Snoop’s Potluck Dinner drops on Monday 7 November on VH1 Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart have shared the first trailer for their long-awaited joint cooking show Potluck Dinner….

Hot Topic is Crack’s monthly roundup of politically charged music I won’t spend too much time flapping my gums about the state of the nation today because there’s a lot…

Here are the 100 greatest LPs of 2016, according to Crack Magazine. Visit 2016.crackmagazine.net for more end of year coverage over the coming weeks….

…released via Twitter as a ‘mixtape’. It features an exciting selection of collaborators, including MØ, Raye, Uffie and Abra. With production from PC Music’s AG Cook, Danny L Harle and…

…the remainder.” Other tech companies who have also responded to the Charlottesville violence include Apple, Facebook, Google and GoDaddy amongst others, with Apple CEO Tim Cook denouncing neo-Nazis and Trump’s…

…new music from his project VeilHymn – which was formed with Bryndon Cook. It was later revealed that the collaborative project’s single Hymn was created exclusively for MailChimp, an email…

You’ll have heard it. Kids in playgrounds are screaming “The ting goes skrrraaah!”. “Corn flakes” have taken on a whole new meaning. Nobody’s taking their bloody jackets off. Whipping the…

…– Sometimes 06. PARC – Dream 07. Octo Octa – Not Sure What to Do (Variation Zoning 4) 08. Anna Cook – Underwater Phonecall 09. Kaazi – Paix/Paix 10. Afterhours…

…with former Crack cover star Mykki Blanco, Carly Rae Jepsen, Tove Lo, CupcakKe, PC Music’s A. G. Cook and others. This year, Charli XCX has released the mixtape Number 1…

…features interviews with 3D, Tricky, Adrian Utley, Neil Davidge, Mark Stewart, Sean Cook and others. The book is published on 09 April 2018 through Tangent Books. Pre-order via Waterstones here….

If 21st century life could be pinned down to a single feeling, maybe it’s the one where you’re just overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it all. Confronted by every…

Beyoncé Knowles and Shawn Carter, America’s most culturally relevant power couple, are in a unique position when it comes to their place in popular music. On the one hand, they…

Norwich duo Let’s Eat Grandma, comprised of childhood best friends Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth, have been intriguing audiences since their first single Deep Six Textbook in 2016. Their brand…

Everyone remembers All Saints’ Never Ever. Somewhere, at some point, you were also probably slow-dancing in front of a mirror, trying to nail the melancholic-yet-celestial spoken word intro by Natalie…

Ten years ago, Devonté Hynes released a song called Tell Me What It’s Worth as the orchestral pop project Lightspeed Champion. The song is a mid-’00s indie staple, but one…

There’s a certain breed of musical icon that can transfer the sum of their lived experiences onto their recordings. Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Patti Smith – you can hear the…

“Do you want to see a picture of my car?” Maria-Cecilia Simone Kelly, aka Rico Nasty, aka Tacobella, aka Trap Lavigne, reaches over the table and starts scrolling through the…

It’s time for Crack Magazine’s Annual Report, our chance to take stock of the year in music. Yesterday, we posted our Top 50 albums of 2018. Obviously, any attempt to…

Welcome to the second instalment of Frankie’s advice column. This month, the Discwoman co-founder imparts wisdom on the important stuff, covering plenty of ground: how to beat the music industry…

Born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo but currently based in London, DJ and producer Nkisi has spent the past few years steadily gaining popularity for her wildly inventive…

These days, the term “iconic” gets bandied about haphazardly. There are few artists who really deserve the moniker of legend. But the inimitable Chaka Khan is one of them. Her…

In 2018, Ariana Grande’s highly acclaimed fourth album Sweetener proved to be a career-defining milestone. And barely six months later, here’s thank u, next, a record that comes off the…

“No way, you know Cutie Honey?” Kiki Hitomi exclaims, as we’re huddled around a small table in the kitchen of a Berlin apartment, makeup artists and stylists scurrying about, putting…

It almost feels like Lizzo was scientifically engineered to enjoy massive crossover success in 2019: a gorgeous woman of colour who preaches body positivity and self-empowerment through hybrid pop-R&B that…

Welcome to the fifth instalment of Frankie’s Agony Aunt column. This month, the Discwoman co-founder offers some insight into how to throw a successful night, and underlines whether it’s ever…