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American Football: The One With The Feelings

Many moons — The Midwest emo architects transformed a college experiment into a coming-of-age soundtrack. 25 years on, their latest iteration sees them bottle the same magic for the ups and downs of middle life.

  • Music
  • Tracy Kawalik

Analogue Appreciation: mary in the junkyard

Role Model Hermit — In an ever more digital, online world, we ask our favourite artists about their most cherished pieces of physical culture. Today, it’s art rock fabulists mary in the junkyard.

  • Music
  • mary in the junkyard

Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien: “Technology’s evolution on the human psyche is a massive problem”

Blue Morpho — With the release of his second solo album, the songwriter and guitarist explores analogue rawness, spirituality and pulling himself out of a dark place. D’Arcy Doran caught up with him at SXSW to find out more.

  • Music
  • D’Arcy Doran
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Jack Johnson’s third act

SURFILMUSIC — Three decades on from his trajectory-altering crash at Pipeline and subsequent music career, the singer-songwriter looks back at his life and work in a new, expansive film.

  • Music
  • D’Arcy Doran

On the set of ‘La Bamba’, lost Latino legend Ritchie Valens’s biopic

The overnight rockstar — The Chicano rock & roll star exploded overnight in the late ’50s, but just as quickly he was gone, killed in a plane crash along with Buddy Holly. An ’80s biopic saw him immortalised on the big screen, which photographer Merrick Morton captured behind the scenes. 

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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Remembering the riotous heyday of Asbury Lanes

Lightning in a Bottle — In a rundown seaside town, the bowling alley turned punk and rock destination helped transform the fortunes of its surroundings. A new retrospective book and exhibition from Mike McLaughlin revisits its grit and glory of its ’00s peak.

  • Music
  • Jon Coen
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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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Katarina Barruk sings for Sámi culture and the Ume language

Dárbasjub Duv — Ume Sámi, spoken by just a handful of indigenous people in Sweden’s Sábmie region, is one of the world’s most endangered languages. With her songs that blend modern pop and indie aesthetics with folk rhythms and joik, the singer-songwriter and pianist is using music to keep the centuries of tradition and knowledge alive.

  • Music
  • Ben Broyd

The first trans rocker Jayne County reflects on her wild life

Shock factor — Following the release of her memoir, the punk icon recalls the ‘60s art scene surrounding Andy Warhol’s Factory, being on the frontlines of Stonewall and accidentally giving her ideas to David Bowie.

  • Culture
  • Liam Konemann

White Riot: how rock took on racism in Britain

Punk politics — Director Rubika Shah discusses her new documentary, White Riot, which traces the story of grassroots political movement Rock Against Racism, and the role of activism in Britain’s music history.

  • Film
  • Katie Goh

The photographer who defined the look of rock and roll

Show me the picture — Jim Marshall’s images have become a visual diary of the rebellious and revolutionary spirit of the genre.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

Ty Segall is a totally normal person

‘People assume I’m a wastoid’ — The 21st-century rock veteran talks ear appointments, dogs, and why he’s considering moving to a monastery.

  • Music
  • Nate Rogers

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