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Graham Sayle opens up

Life is hardcore — The High Vis frontman has battled demons that would flatten most – and barely broken a sweat. We sit down with the scene veteran to talk about channeling raw emotion and lived experience into his music, navigating fame and finding peace in a pit full of punks.

  • Huck 82: The Music Issue
  • Tracy Kawalik
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Meet Lady Pink, the ‘First Lady’ of graffiti

Miss Subway NYC — As a leading writer and artist in a man’s world, Sandra Fabara has long been a trailblazer for girls in underground art. Now, her new show touches on her legacy, while looking to the future.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk
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Meet Lilou Ruel, the parkour champion taking the sport vertical

Skypusher — After becoming the first woman to jump Paris’s infamous Manpower Gap, the French athlete has set the bar high for her fellow athletes. Now, having joined stunt school and acted as a body double for Charli xcx, she has her sights set on the film industry.

  • Sport
  • Hester Underhill

In a world of noise, IC3PEAK are finding radicality in the quiet

Coming Home — Having once been held up as a symbol of Russian youth activism and rebellion, the experimental duo are now living in exile. Their latest album explores their new reality.

  • Music
  • Isaac Muk

Rapper Anik Khan on his time as an undocumented citizen

Denied, Approved — The New York MC reflects on his experience with Trumpian US immigration policy, and how it impacted his career.

  • Music

Skate legend Ray Barbee is still living the dream

The Outsiders Project — The street-skating pioneer talks life, legacy and why, after all these years, he still views his monumental career as a case of ’right time, right place’.

  • Outsiders Project
  • Phil Young

Nubya Garcia is a musician pushing the limits of genre

Future sound — As a leading light in the lauded London jazz scene, the Camden-born artist has helped shape one of the most exciting musical movements to spring out of the city in the past decade. Now that the world is beginning to reopen, she is determined to pick up where she left off: driving things forward, and uplifting others to do the same.

  • Magazine
  • Natty Kasambala

Zarah Sultana is fighting for a better, bolder world

The time is now — Elected in 2019 at the age of just 26, the MP for Coventry South has spent her short time in Parliament establishing herself as one of the British Left’s next great hopes, standing tall as a frequent and vocal scourge of the status quo. But how did she arrive here?

  • Activism
  • Ben Smoke

Vince Staples is focused on the bigger picture

Taking trips — With his new self-titled album, the Long Beach rapper has constructed a swelling commentary on adolescence and upbringing. Just don’t expect him to tell you what the message is.

  • Music
  • Christine Ochefu

Gabriel Krauze has no time for neat conclusions

The written truth — In his Booker longlisted debut, the London writer produced a double-dose adrenaline shot of violence, brotherhood and fuck-you swagger, based squarely on his own experiences as a younger man. So, as the 34-year-old gears up to throw himself into the follow-up, it begs the question: where does he go next?

  • Books
  • Michael Fordham

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