Hello everybody and welcome back to Staying In, your trusted spring of entertaining and enriching content for the weekend ahead. The sun is beginning to creep out from behind the…

…participate in collaborative residencies, one-off performances, presentations and educational events as well as artist meet-ups. SHAPE+ is comprised of 17 festivals including Unsound, Terraforma, Construction Festival, Mutant Radio, CTM Festival…

Do you believe in the future of music? We’ve always kept the faith. Since day one, Crack Magazine has been shaped by our confidence in the power of artists to…

“The first German tour of Underground Resistance, at Tresor, I will never forget. It was really dark and, like the name says, underground.” Moritz von Oswald, widely acknowledged as a…

…with Unsound Festival. Find out more about Metabolic Rift here and listen back to the podcast version of our Crack Supporters Talk with Vladislav Delay, aka Finnish electronic artist Sasu…

…kind of. The house was actually torn down back in 2013 due to it being structurally unsound but now Eminem is selling bricks from his childhood home on his website…

…– like Duke and regular sparring partner, MCZO – championing singeli at festivals like Unsound and Nyege Nyege. Duke recently stepped back out on the Nyege Nyege Tapes label, following…

…residencies and greener forms of travel where possible. SHAPE+ is comprised of 13 festivals in Europe, including CTM Festival, Unsound and Terraforma Festival, and focuses on supporting innovative music and…

…such as Stevenson Gallery in their native Johannesburg – and played at festivals such as Unsound and Flow. Musically, their idiosyncratic sound draws from gqom, South African house and older…

…13 organisations across Europe including Unsound Festival, Terraforma, Intonal and Berlin’s CTM Fesival. In previous years, SHAPE has supported artists such as KMRU, Peach, Giant Swan, Aïsha Devi, Anna Meredith…

Since launching in 2011, The Hague’s Rewire Festival has been slowly building a reputation as one of Europe’s go-to destinations for forward-thinking and exploratory music of all shades and colours….

DJ Python is vaping, worrying and wearing a gleaming white ten-gallon hat. It’s early May in locked-down New York City when I first speak to Brian Piñeyro. Just a few…

“When I first started using Ableton to make stuff, I thought ‘well, I have no leverage compared to everyone else,’” object blue admits. While absentmindedly peeling an orange at breakfast,…

Over the years, the music industry has grown ever more reliant on the internet and online activity. But as countries entered a global lockdown in 2020, this year has marked…

“Nobody fuckin’ with meee in these streets,” proclaims RP Boo’s aptly-titled song No Body. The track, which kick-starts his new album I’ll Tell You What!, pulses on frenetic deep bass…

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….

For a dominant species, humans are intensely fragile creatures. Our inherent physical and emotional complexities are what assumedly distinguish us as a superior intelligence. And yet we suffer constantly. Sleep…

Bristol’s Old Market is one of those seedy and exciting zones you find near urban transport hubs, with a colourful history and a clash of contemporary cultures. Walking up from…