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Inside the grunge golden age with Hole’s former bassist

My ’90s Rock Photographs — Melissa Auf der Maur’s new photobook is a sprawling visual memoir of her time at the heart of the US scene, from Tinker to The Smashing Pumpkins.

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  • Miss Rosen
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How the Home Counties took over UK rap

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Hak Baker: “Being a lad is dreaming of a decent life”

Hard Feelings — The East London storyweaver joins our column on masculinity and fatherhood to chat about being raised by his mother, his family of friends, and the momentary bliss of the sesh.

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  • Robert Kazandjian

Landmark new exhibition is celebrating 50 years of female punk

God Save the Queens — The Museum of Youth Culture is bringing together rare photography, archive material and a one-night-only supergroup featuring members of X-Ray Spex, The Slits and The Raincoats.

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  • Ella Glossop

Cristale: “Living in London taught me to be grateful”

What Made Me – In this series, we ask artists and rebels about the forces and experiences that shaped who they are. Today, it’s Brixton-born rapper Cristale.

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The long history of slop in music

Top of the Slops — The term might be everywhere now, but the act of copying and enshittifying has been around for decades, explains Ian McQuaid.

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Space Afrika are flying the flag for the Black avant-garde

Quiet Storm — Mancunian duo Joshua Tarelle Reid and Joshua Inyang have been soundtracking their vision of industrial decay for the best part of a decade. Their latest album sees the pair join forces with global diasporic voices to create their most personal, expansive record yet.

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  • Jack Dennison-Thompson

Queen Millz: “Getting kicked out of school changed my life”

What Made Me — In this series, we ask artists and rebels about the forces and experiences that shaped who they are. Today, it’s leading Leicester wordsmith Queen Millz.

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Is Field Maneuvers the most fun time ever? Yes probably

Collective joy — Huck’s art director Samuel White went to the 2026 edition, braving a wet start and interviewing FLINTA* collective and arm wrestling legends Uhaul Dyke Rescue in the process.

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Green Man is more than a music festival

Planting roots — For nearly a quarter century, the fiercely independent weekender has been flying the flag for Welsh arts and music. As an ecosystem now bubbles around it, Anna Stafford meets the people who keep the fire burning.

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Julian Cashwan Pratt: “We fought security until the cops showed up”

Hard Feelings — The lead singer of Show Me the Body joins Rob Kazandjian’s column on fatherhood and masculinity to talk about mentors, scrapping Zionists at shows, and finally making his father proud.

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  • Robert Kazandjian
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Lost photos from the heyday of punk and new wave

Crash Bang — DB Burkeman’s latest photobook unearths photographs from his younger years as an aspiring music photographer, which sat undeveloped in his family home for decades.

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