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Music

Huck 82: The Music Issue is here

Give Me Space — Introducing our latest music themed issue, covered by Kojey Radical.

Written by: Josh Jones

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Culture

As Italy’s rave culture faces crackdowns, a cyberpunk citadel fights to survive

Mutonia must stay — Having fled the UK in the face of increasingly oppressive Thatcherite laws, a collective of artists and musicians eventually found a home in an abandoned quarry over three decades ago. Now, they may have to move once again.

Written by: Marco De Vidi

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Sport

The Delhi basement forging India’s top skaters

Below deck — In a supermetropolis with little to no infrastructure for skaters, an underground academy is leading the city’s development of elite athletes, as well as providing a space for boarders of any level to try out and train.

Written by: Paridhi Badgotri

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Activism

“Young people are carrying fear”: Emerald in conversation with Big Zuu and Kerry O’Brien

DSYF x YUAF x DRIP — A new collaborative initiative sets up a mobile youth club on a bus, which has been travelling around London to run workshops and activities for the city’s young people. DJ and broadcaster Emerald hosted a roundtable with rapper Big Zuu and YUAF founder Kerry O’Brien to hear about it.

Written by: Huck

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Music

Inside Japan’s ’90s gabber and hardcore underground

Manga Corps — A new book published by Italian hardcore artist Gabber Eleganza archives ephemera and flyers from the early days of gabber and hardcore from Tokyo and Osaka, which has gone on to have an outsized influence on popular music today.

Written by: Isaac Muk

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Culture

As Washington DC rapidly gentrifies, street dancers refuse to be pushed out

Song of Sons — Go-go and Beat Ya Feet are ingrained into the US capital’s fabric, but as its Black population gets displaced, their presence is increasingly under threat. Nate Langston Palmer’s ongoing project immortalises the culture.

Written by: Miss Rosen

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Culture

Aram Sabbah: “The whole world is hypocritical”

To a Land Unknown — One of Palestine’s first ever, and most prominent skaters has made his acting debut, playing a refugee in Athens in Mahdi Fleifel’s new feature film. We caught up with him in our culture newsletter to hear about it.

Written by: Isaac Muk

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Portrait of Ed Templeton by Deanna Templeton | Toy Machine skate deck photo by Don Luong
Sport

Ed Templeton’s new Toy Machine skate deck sets KKK on fire

Burning racism — It comes via his long running skate company and features a cartoon graphic of a klansman alight on a cross, as well as a broken swastika.

Written by: Isaac Muk

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Activism

Hundreds rally in support of Kneecap’s Mo Chara as court delays ruling on terror charge

Adjourned — Demonstrations outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court saw chants for Palestine and Ireland echo through central London, as the rapper’s case was adjourned until September 26.

Written by: Ella Glossop

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Activism

Two founders of Led By Donkeys to face trial after Labour HQ protest

Rushworth resistance — The art and activism crew hung a banner opposite the party’s Southwark headquarters, featuring an image of a bombed out Gaza street that read “Protesting this isn’t terrorism”.

Written by: Isaac Muk

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