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How skateboarding and punk combined to create a radical, rebellious movement

Don’t forget the streets — The sport’s intersectional romance with subcultures and their music can be a complicated maze. The deeper into the labyrinth, the more inextricable the two forces appear to be.

  • Huck 82: The Music Issue
  • Cullen Poythress
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Memories of Seattle’s ’90s & ’00s musical underground

MAKiNG iT — In the wake of the grunge explosion, a new scene began to bubble in the Pacific Northwest, as indie, emo and alt-rock blossomed. Bootsy Holler was one of its key documentarians, photographing the likes of Modest Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie and Fleet Foxes on the ascent, and her debut photobook is a nostalgic trip to the past. 

  • Music
  • Isaac Muk
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Races, revving and revelry: 20 years of US motorcycling in photos

American Motorcycling Culture — Photographer Jack Lueders-Booth has had a lifetime obsession with two wheelers, and the wider culture surrounding them. His new photobook explores his archive between 1980 and 2000, taken at road meets, track races and more.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk
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In photos: Wild weekends on the ’90s London Underground

Mind the gap — Mark McEvoy’s new photobook revisits the three-year period when he spent Friday and Saturday evenings roaming the Tube with his camera. The result is a mix of joy, drunkenness and spots of stillness.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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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.

  • Music
  • Isaac Muk
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New documentary revisits NYC’s ’90s skateboarding golden age via the lens of Supreme

Empire Skate — The 30 for 30 documentary premiered in June, exploring how the brand evolved from a Lafayette skate shop into a global streetwear giant.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk
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Remembering New York’s ’90s gay scene via its vibrant nightclub flyers

Getting In — After coming out in his 20s, David Kennerley became a fixture on the city’s queer scene, while pocketing invites that he picked up along the way. His latest book dives into his rich archive.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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The British intimacy of ‘the afters’

Not Going Home — In 1998, photographer Mischa Haller travelled to nightclubs just as their doors were shutting and dancers streamed out onto the streets, capturing the country’s partying youth in the early morning haze.

  • Culture
  • Ella Glossop

Hypnotic Scenes of 90s London Nightlife

Legendary photographer Eddie Otchere looks back at this epic chapter of the capital’s story in new photobook ‘Metalheadz, Blue Note London 1994–1996’

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

Decades of documenting US skateboard culture from a woman’s perspective

In her new book, Fulfill the Dream, photographer Magdalena Wosinska reflects on her journey through skate culture from the 90s to present day.

  • Photography
  • Isaac Muk

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