Crack Magazine

2 days ago | crackmagazine.net | Oli Warwick

NYC Downlow, IICON and Genosys are about to be taken over by a wild cocktail of dance music from the South East Corner’s newest arrivals. Fifteen years into its riotous reign, Block9 has become one of the most iconic areas within the sprawling canvas city of Glastonbury Festival. From the outset, founders Gideon and Stephen Gallagher made a clear and explicit commitment to honour the queer roots of club music – at a time when greater representation was sorely needed at festivals big and small.

1 month ago | crackmagazine.net | Zoya Raza-Sheikh

In her first UK exhibition, THE ECHO OF PROTEST IS DISTANT TO THE PROTEST, multidisciplinary artist, DJ and ambient hardcore producer Nazanin Noori uses a cacophony of sound and visuals to shock us into imagining a vastly different alternative political present.

2 months ago | crackmagazine.net | Gemma Samways |Molly Johnson

29.04.25 Words by: Gemma Samways Photography: Halle Jean March, Molly Johnson Blending honeyed melodies with walls of guitar fuzz and waves of fuzzy distortion, New York-based artist sweet93 is crafting a new dream-pop sound. Chloe Kohanski loves the physical sensation of being cramped. “I will literally sleep in the corner, up against the wall, to feel that pressure,” the New York-based artist chuckles, gleefully aware of how curious the admission sounds.

2 months ago | crackmagazine.net | Thomas Frost

At Wax Works Berlin, the Vinyl Alliance teamed up with Audio-Technica and optimal media to shine a light on the human craft of analogue recording and the superior sound quality it captures. Spending two days at Analogue Foundation Berlin with some of the city’s most skilled musicians, producers and mixers, we witnessed this process fast-tracked from studio session to playback. The excitement was palpable.

2 months ago | crackmagazine.net | Alice Nicolov

07.04.25 Words by: Alice Nicolov Photography: Frederick Paxton As he gears up for a Milan Design Week collaboration with Stone Island, Friendly Pressure founder Shivas Howard Brown talks formative sound system experiences and being part of a lineage of Black British music. In a sun-flooded East London studio, Friendly Pressure founder Shivas Howard Brown pads across a thick cocoa-coloured rug to the record player flanked by two chest-high speakers.