crackaud.io x Gurls Talk: Liv Ravden
West London’s Liv Ravden joins us for the mid-way point of our week-long collaboration with Adwoa Aboah’s Gurls Talk, exploring and celebrating womxnhood in all forms. Smooth and uplifting, this is the perfect tonic for the midweek slump
US funk and soul of the 1970s – Mixed by Mr G
Smooth sounds of resistance with a house music icon
Selections: Josey Rebelle
Welcome back to Selections, a series of exclusive artist-curated Spotify playlists from those in the…
Rag’n’Bone Man – Human
The industry has spoken. This is Rag’n’Bone Man’s year – and you’re powerless to stop him.
Sassy Black celebrates 20 years of Erykah Badu’s Baduizm
Two decades on from its release, singer, producer and former THEESatisfaction member Sassy Black basks in the glory of ‘Baduizm’
Aretha Franklin announces her retirement
Soul legend Aretha Franklin has announced that her next album will be her last. The…
Nao:
Home Grown Soul
Gunseli Yalcinkaya meets the Hackney-raised singer in an East London cafe to talk identity and community in an evolving landscape
Blood Orange announces release date of new album, Freetown Sound
After the drop of his intimate album cover earlier this week, Dev Hynes has unveiled…
See a selection of unseen photographs of Amy Winehouse
The images show the much-missed singer-songwriter as a fresh-faced twenty-year-old A new book of unpublished…
Josey Rebelle:
Bring Down The Walls
One of London’s premier resident DJs sat down with us to discuss her Student Union beginnings, eclecticism and her baby-making mixes for Rinse FM
Turning Points:
Charles Bradley
Henry Murray nails down the peaks and troughs of the 67-year-old soul singer’s late breakthrough career and intensely emotional life story
Charles Bradley – Changes
The tone is set for Charles Bradley’s third studio album on the opening song, a cover…
Twenty88 – Twenty88
The building blocks for Big Sean and Jhene Aiko’s debut collaborative record under the Twenty88…
Adele – 25
Crack’s Duncan Harrison reviews Adele’s ’25’ an album of heavily produced, radio-friendly belters built to simmer in their own success
Prince rumours suggest a stripped-back sixteen-date European tour
The proposed dates will take the icon and his piano around Europe in two weeks time…
Aesthetic:
Kali Uchis
Kali Uchis looks like her music sounds.