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“Magazines are cultural artefacts”: magCulture’s Jeremy Leslie on the enduring importance of print

We love magazines — Despite the ever creeping digitalisation of the world and culture, physical objects are taking on different, yet vital, roles in culture today. Ella Glossop chats to one of London’s biggest proponents of the art about why we need to support independent publications.

  • Culture
  • Ella Glossop
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In photos: The gritty golden age of the UK’s skateboarding scene

Elsewhere — A new book from Science Vs. Life founder Neil Macdonald explores the characters, photographs and ephemera that defined the sport in the ’80s and ’90s, just before the internet and commercialisation changed it forever.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk

“I didn’t care if I got sacked”: Sleazenation’s Scott King in conversation with Radge’s Meg McWilliams

Radgenation — For our 20th Anniversary Issue, Huck’s editor Josh Jones sits down with the legendary art director and the founder of a new magazine from England’s northeast to talk about taking risks, crafting singular covers and disrupting the middle class dominance of the creative industries.

  • Huck 83: Life Is A Journey Issue
  • Josh Jones

In photos: The newsagents keeping print alive

Save the stands — With Huck 83 hitting shelves around the world, we met a few people who continue to stock print magazines, defying an enduringly tough climate for physical media and the high street.

  • Huck 83: Life Is A Journey Issue
  • Ella Glossop
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Tech once promised connection. Print magazines are delivering it

Touch paper — After years of retrenchment in the journalism and media industry, physical magazines are making a comeback. In Real Life Media founder Megan Wray Schertler diagnoses the state of the industry, while explaining the radical history of print and why we need it today.

  • Culture
  • Megan Wray Schertler
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As music journalism marches towards oblivion, a plea for salvation

We Gotta Get Through This — On reaching 25 years of the independent music blog and online community Drowned in Sound, site founder, label boss, and manager of artists such as Charlotte Church, Sean Adams, explores how music journalism is still limping, and why setting up The Association of Music Editors is an attempt to liberate it from corporate tyranny and neglect.

  • Huck 82: The Music Issue
  • Sean Adams

Read and destroy: the story of the UK's seminal skateboarding magazine

RaD was inclusive, underground and unapologetically British. Almost three decades after it ceased publication, the people behind its success remember its influence.

  • Skate
  • Oliver-James Campbell

LGBTQ+ zines from places where being gay is condemned

Queer resistance — From Russia to India and Hong Kong, we take a look at the zines which are carving out vital spaces of self-expression for queer people in countries where same-sex relationships still remain taboo.

  • Culture
  • Z. Raza-Sheikh

Help save a treasure trove of vital skate culture

Read and Destroy — The definitive history of UK skateboarding is being brought back to light like never before... if it gain the right backing.

  • Skate
  • Cian Traynor

The magazine for outsiders, built from nothing but ideas

The Editorial — After being let go from her job, and turned away from every publication, Claire Milbrath started her own title to bring emerging artists into the light, away from the establishment's doors.

  • Outdoors
  • Josh Gabert-Doyon

Strike! Magazine on how to avoid the Dark Side and start your own publication

DIY or Die — What do you do when you’re fucked-off with the way things are? You start a subversive magazine and start exploring other planets.

  • Culture
  • Strike!

Erin Spens, Boat Magazine

Show Your Work —

  • Print
  • D'Arcy Doran

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