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Analogue Appreciation: Xmunashe

Make Yourself At Home — In an ever more digital, online world, we ask our favourite artists about their most cherished pieces of physical culture. Today, it’s elusive freeform explorer Xmunashe.

  • Music
  • xmunashe

Danny León pulls huge aerial in line with the solar eclipse

Totality — Combined with a board grab, the Spanish skateboarder performed the trick just as the moon’s path had completely covered the sun.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk
© Cheyenne Clementi & Valentina Morandi

Grainy, yearning memories of Europe’s ’90s free rave heyday

Never Alone — A new photobook from Cheyenne Clementi and Valentina Morandi presents pictures they made over seven years while touring the continent as part of the Tekno Mobil Squad soundsystem crew. It archives parties, people and a lifestyle largely consigned to the past.

  • Music
  • Isaac Muk

London’s largest indoor skatepark to be demolished for padel courts

Better Extreme — The Barking skatepark’s fate follows that of similar indoor spaces in recent years, with operators GLL citing falling visitor numbers as the reason behind the decision.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk

In the pit at one of the UK’s last stock car & banger speedways

Stock Car Racing Isn’t Dead — Photographer Liam McCarthy spent time in and around the Arlington Raceway’s circuit, capturing the diehard community that keeps the sport alive.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk

Analogue Appreciation: mary in the junkyard

Role Model Hermit — In an ever more digital, online world, we ask our favourite artists about their most cherished pieces of physical culture. Today, it’s art rock fabulists mary in the junkyard.

  • Music
  • mary in the junkyard

Ra’ed Khan and the tireless work of Road to Freedom

Hurriyah — Having been providing frontline aid and support to refugees for over a decade, a new book featuring poetry by Omar Mooro traces the story of the NGO. In this chapter extract, founder and music executive Ra’ed Khan explains its origins.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk
Horishi / Tattoo Artist Horikazu. Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. Oct. 29, 2024. Photograph by Cory Lum/ 2024
© Cory Lum

The intricate, clandestine art of Japan’s traditional tattoos

Irezumi — Having emerged during the Edo Period centuries ago, inking skin has long been associated the country’s working class, and particularly Yakuza. A new book by Manami Okazaki explores the history and deep meaning of the practice, as well as the horishi who dedicate their lives to the needle.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk
© Yurie Nagashima

New exhibition spotlights the ongoing impact of Japanese Women Photographers

1950s to Now — Taking place at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, it showcases work by 27 artists from the past seven decades including Mikiko Hara, Yurie Nagashima and Mao Ishikawa.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk

Moshpits & kickflips at the Volcom Garden Experience 2026

Family affair — Last weekend, the skate, surf and snow culture brand hosted a free mini festival in its European backyard of Biarritz. We went along and chatted to legendary artist and surfer Ozzie Wright.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk

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