Huck

Next to the front door of Mac DeMarco’s home in Los Angeles hangs two sets of keys with matching lanyards. One says, “SASSY.” The other, “STRESSED OUT.” It’s safe to assume the former belongs to Kiera McNally, the Canadian songwriter’s long-term girl

Studying to become a filmmaker made Bronwen Parker-Rhodes go broke. To support herself financially, she began moonlighting as a DJ in strip clubs around London, playing six-hour sets that dancers would choreograph routines to as she watched on in fas

Ever since trainers evolved from being purely functional to a fixture of mainstream fashion, no other item of clothing has played a bigger role in the history of youth culture. In the mid-1980s, after Nike launched its Air Jordan line and Adidas sign

The working-class city of Warabi is just a short train trip from Tokyo, though it feels like a world away. As the neon-lit streets of the latter make way for low-slung houses and densely packed apartment buildings, the metropolitan abundance of Japan

It’s just after midnight at the University of Athens, where its student halls are packed with people. Hand-printed posters by protest groups hang alongside flyers for punk shows, their shades of red, black and white plastered across a well-worn foyer

Jonah Hill is running late. An Arctic blizzard has been tearing New York City apart, halting his taxi and wreaking havoc with his phone signal. Somehow, he remains calm and collected. “I heard it’s colder than the Antarctic in Chicago at the moment,”

In 1955, a crowd of about 40 people packed themselves into the confines of The Black Swan, a cosy pub situated in the quaint market town of Leominster, Herefordshire. Led by a man named Bill Paul, this gathering marked the inaugural meeting of a new

In an East London hotel room strewn with clothes and suitcases, EarthGang’s Johnny Venus is sitting on an unmade bed, plucking at an acoustic guitar. “I’m still learning,” he quickly clarifies, his dreadlocks wrapped in a white towel, a pair of white

Belfast’s Springfield Road became a hotspot of violence during the Troubles. As a thoroughfare running through a predominantly Irish nationalist area, it also intersects with nearby Ulster loyalist neighbourhoods – forming a sectarian fault line that

On the surface, everything about Misty Tyers’ life seems perfectly ordinary. She’s a barber who’s good at what she does – so good that her time gets booked out months in advance. She also loves music and, every year, goes on a week-long heavy metal c

The first time Adrian Street adopted the look that would change the face of wrestling, people couldn’t believe their eyes. Five years into his career, he had grown bored by the way other wrestlers presented themselves – just trunks and boots in the s

On a quiet road just off the high street, in a residential part of a British seaside town, there’s a small, unspectacular building sandwiched between houses and takeaways, its walls painted completely white. The owners refer to it as a massage parlou

Yet despite glaring differences between Mods and Scooterboys, ‘straight’ society often couldn’t tell them apart. New book Scooterboys – The Lost Tribe aims to set the record straight. It includes a foreword by Mani from the Stone Roses and Primal Scr

Two years ago, Holly Herndon gave birth to a nascent AI baby named Spawn. The computer learns by listening: absorbing complex stimuli and then creating something new in her mother’s voice – sounds that Holly would never be physically capable of produ

At a fish hatchery on the northern coast of Norway, Swedish journalist Mikael Frödin is examining a net holding up to 30,000 artificially fed and harvested salmon. “Look at this!” he shouts, horrified at the contents: fish that are discoloured, bent