The best tracks of 2024 according to Crack Magazine, featuring Fontaines D.C., FKA twigs, Kendrick Lamar, Charli xcx, Chappell Roan and more.

The 50 best albums of 2024 according to Crack Magazine, featuring Fontaines D.C., Cindy Lee, Tyler, the Creator, Charli xcx and more.

As users mourn the closure of MixesDB, one of the most thorough databases of electronic music on the internet, urgent questions arise about the precarity of digital cultural archives, and the hidden - and essential - histories they contain.

From post-breakup anthems to the return of the club banger, and viral TikTok hits. These are the best tracks of 2021.

From field recordings to the divorce album, via club experiments and self-care rituals. Music that soundtracked another unpredictable year in the pandemic. Here are the best albums of 2021.

'Amanze' is a new film from London-based director and producer Lucy Hawes. We’re premiering it exclusively on Crack Magazine.

From blockbuster Boiler Room streams to colourful charity compilations, everyone is talking about Daytimers.

'Golden Hour' made a household name out of country outlier Kacey Musgraves, even as her personal life was coming undone. For its follow-up, she leans into tragedy to find inner peace.

The Colombian sound artist and former geotechnical engineer’s interests lie beyond the physical world.

From the rise of UK drill to AI-augmented music, to post-genre explorations via pirate radio stations, here are the 50 albums that captured the many faces of 2019

Shanti Celeste has charmed dancefloors the world over with warm, uplifting house music. Now, she’s pushing her sound further than ever before.

From crypto-commercial nu-pop to the viral juke of 'Footcrab', and an eerie Fugees sample, 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.

Galvanised by our fractious political era, the pioneering feminist band bristle with renewed urgency. We meet with Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss to talk politics, love and the #MeToo movement.

Ahead of his next album, the Radiohead frontman calls for a shock to the system.

The acts redefining music -- sonically and ideologically -- picked by experts.

Presenting the best tracks released over the last 12 months, according to Crack Magazine.

Dean Blunt and Gaika discuss Trump’s victory, the restrictive expectations for black music and the post-apocalyptic essence of modern England

The musician behind one of the most sampled six seconds of music in history has finally been paid. The Winstons frontman Richard L. Spencer has received compensation for widespread use of 'the Amen break' via a crowdfunding campaign.Taken from the song 'Amen Brother' by The Winstons, the six second breakbeat has been sampled countless times in hip-hop, jungle, drum 'n' bass and techno.

London-based label Berceuse Heroique was recently subject to criticism following a tweet from the label's founder that led to a wide rebuke of the label's use of extreme imagery. In this column, author and Wire magazine contributor David Keenan compares the use of extreme aesthetics across techno, industrial and punk movements.

DJ and producer The Black Madonna describes a transition in Beatport’s business practices, and predicts an implosion of the mainstream EDM market

After a year of collaborative releases, the friendship between Mumdance and Noveliset seems robust, bound by their ferocious work ethic and ardency towards grime. Their pooled work throughout 2014 lacerated the humdrum of 4×4 electronic music, culling melody for intensity.