…atmosphere. It’s in here where we watch the underrated RnB experimentalist Kelela perform a typically sensual, typically impassioned set to relatively thin crowd. Don’t worry Kelela, we still love you….

Here are the top 50-1 LPs of 2017, according to Crack Magazine. Check out 100-51 here. Visit 2017.crackmagazine.net for more end of year coverage over the coming weeks….

…to have paid off: she’s already performed with legendary footwork producer RP Boo at VIA Festival and supported Drake, Anderson .Paak and Kelela at SXSW’s Fader Fort earlier this year….

…the RnB singer-songwriter Kelela. For more electronic leanings, there’s Discwoman’s DJ Haram, Detroit’s DJ Assault, Russian-born producer Machine Woman, Brooklyn-via-Jamaica producer Tygapaw and MikeQ – a key figure of the…

Kelela, Fever Ray and more are all set to play the Dutch festival’s 12th edition. Rewire has announced the first artists for its forthcoming edition. Coinciding with the Easter holiday,…

…new tracks from the likes of Metronomy, Steve Malkmus & The Jicks, Death Grips, Nina Kraviz, Kelela, Todd Terje plus a remix of ASAP Ferg’s Shabba featuring the much hyped…

…the distorted fury of NY punk band Perfect Pussy, Chi-Town rapper Tree’s coarse delivery, a standalone tune from a Crack cover star Kelela and Daniel Avery’s remix of Mathew Dear’s…

Flow thrives in the liminal space between some absolutes that have come to define the leading Helsinki festival over the past two decades. The event’s charm lies somewhere between its…

Happy International Women’s Day! To contribute to the yearly celebration of inspirational women all over the planet, we invited nine music industry trailblazers to discuss albums which have inspired them…

The landscape of cutting edge dance music today is global. Rhythms and structures from opposite sides of the world collide, with interpretations often feeding back to their points of origin…

From the crypto-commercial nu-pop of SOPHIE to the viral juke of Footcrab, an eerie Fugees sample and an ill-fated cockroach, these are the tracks that defined a decade…

Ruminations on death, loneliness, identity and hyperreality. The album didn’t die in the 2010s, it just got really, really weird

It’s been another incredibly good, incredibly varied year for rap. While there was perhaps no real contender for Pusha T’s jaw-dropping line, “you are hiding a child, let that boy…

Welcome to the Crack Magazine Staff Lists for 2017, a chance for our team and extended family to share their personal highlights from the last 12 months. Visit 2017.crackmagazine.net for…

The most notable tunes we heard online in the last seven days. Sometimes there’s so much going on in the world it’s hard to know what to expend your precious…

…Kelela opens the LP with WWYD, a tender jam echoing 80s West Coast electro and 90s G-funk, while Taliwoah soars like a radio diva atop the tropical dancehall of Stuck….

…Soundsystem, along with Kelela and Yaeji. The 10-day event will include a music festival, free community midweek entertainment and standalone artist-curated shows. It’ll be held at London’s Victoria Park on…

…to poor weather. Rob Da Bank founded Bestival in 2004 and Camp Bestival in 2008. This year, the former hosted the likes of M.I.A., Grace Jones, Jorja Smith and Kelela….

…Kelela’s awesome vocal acrobatics aren’t big enough without the assistance of the backing band she surely now deserves, while Dixon’s drifting techno is barely loud enough to mask a conversation….

…expansive and diverse 2018 programme. Arca, Lorde, Fever Ray, Migos, Kelela, Tyler, the Creator and current Crack Magazine cover star Nils Frahm also make up the 200-strong artist line-up. Following…

…festival, former Crack cover stars Björk, LCD Soundsystem and Abra have been confirmed for the line-up, along with Kelela and Yaeji. Head to APE’s website for more information and tickets….

…Gou and the Peach Discs label head Shanti Celeste. Elsewhere on the programme, there’s Mercury Prize award winner Sampha, Kelela and The Internet amongst many, many others. Check out the…

Earthly is available to stream and download now. The release has landed on his website without any warning and comes as one stream. It features collaborations with Kelela, Flohio, Angel…

The three-day celebration features contributions from Boards of Canada, Flying Lotus, Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Danny Brown, Autechre, Kelela and many more. Iconic electronic label Warp is marking 30 years…

…2017 album Humanz. Their latest full-length features guest appearances from Noel Gallagher, Vince Staples, Jehnny Beth, Grace Jones, Kelela and Kali Uchis. Recently, Gorillaz teamed up with C.P. Company to…

…Brown & Kelela 6. Charger feat. Grace Jones 7. Andromeda feat. D.R.A.M. 8. Busted and Blue 9. Carnival feat. Anthony Hamilton 10. Let Me Out feat. Mavis Staples & Pusha…

…a press release. After escaping a strict Jehovah’s Witness upbringing and finding solace in music, the North Carolina-born cellist and singer/songwriter – who has collaborated with Solange, Kelela and Sampha…

The influential producer is set to re-release his seminal debut album on 4 November via his own label Earthly. Jam City – who has worked with the likes of Kelela,…