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Analogue Appreciation: Bricknasty

forever — In an ever more digital, online world, we ask our favourite artists about their most cherished pieces of physical culture. Today, it’s Irish boundary rejectors Bricknasty.

  • Music
  • Bricknasty
Woman in Lara Croft cosplay wearing teal top, brown holster harness, fingerless gloves, twin braids, aiming two pistols at camera.

Tank tops and akimbo wielding as Lara Croft came to town

Tomb Raider 30 — As the legendary video game celebrated her 30th birthday, around 80 superfans took part in a cosplay competition at her birthplace of Derby. Hatti Rex and Emily Rose England met some of the participants and found out what gaming’s greatest woman character means to them.

  • Culture
  • Hatti Rex
Young person holding a red hibiscus flower over one eye, wearing a white graphic T-shirt, standing before a pale blue wooden door with a surfboard nearby.

London Surf / Film Festival returns this weekend

Share the stoke — Its 15th edition will take place from November 5-7 at Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios, with films from South Africa, Canada, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, USA, Sri Lanka, Ireland, France, UK and beyond.

  • Sport
  • Hannah Mildner
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Three young musicians on a sofa holding electric guitars and a mini keyboard, in a cluttered rehearsal room with posters on the wall.

Lava La Rue is defying industry slop

Do You Know Everything? — The musician is one of London’s most exciting DIY creatives. For our 20th anniversary issue, they explain their process of making music, zines and art completely in their own way.

  • Huck 84: It Starts With Us
  • Z. Raza-Sheikh
Group of children on a city street, one wearing a werewolf mask, others pulling scary faces and raising hands toward camera. Black and white.

Halloween in Brooklyn, photographed over 50 years

Spirits and soul — Larry Racioppo’s new book documents half a century of the October festivities in New York, while tracing the city’s ever-changing character.

  • Culture
  • Anna Stafford
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Young woman on a city pavement holding a lamppost, wearing a black leather jacket, white top, and red-orange maxi skirt.

Ahilya Bamroo is Gen Z India’s authentic ambassador

Reel relatable — The influencer turned actor speaks about trolls, beauty standards and youth activism.

  • Huck 84: It Starts With Us
  • Radhika Iyengar
Black and white close-up of a shirtless man lying down, city skyline visible behind him, other figures partially visible nearby.

Cruising on the West Side Piers, New York’s wild side

West Side Highway — In the late 20th century, the area was an if-you-know-you-know hotspot for the city’s gay scene. William Howell’s new photobook immortalises it.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

Sport

Young person holding a red hibiscus flower over one eye, wearing a white graphic T-shirt, standing before a pale blue wooden door with a surfboard nearby.

London Surf / Film Festival returns this weekend

Share the stoke — Its 15th edition will take place from November 5-7 at Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios, with films from South Africa, Canada, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, USA, Sri Lanka, Ireland, France, UK and beyond.

  • Sport
  • Hannah Mildner
Woman in cycling gear standing on a gravel track with her mountain bike on the ground, overlooking open hillside under cloudy skies.

The femme bikepacking group making meaningful adventures

Sisters in the Wild — With expeditions across Wales, Slovenia, Mongolia, Vietnam and beyond, the group are providing space for FLINTA cyclists to ride and connect with nature.

  • Huck 84: It Starts With Us
  • Sunny Sunday
© Darren Vargas

The lasting community legacy of a legendary Californian boxing gym

Moretón — Since opening in the ’80s, the Coachella Valley Boxing Club has trained multiple world champions, while providing a vital hub for local youth. In his new photobook, Darren Vargas documents its tight-knit, Chicano-led community, while also weaving a deeply personal story.

  • Sport
  • Jack Dennison-Thompson

In Portugal, a DIY longboarding festival is keeping surfing’s radical roots alive

Gliding Barnacles — Set in Figueira da Foz, the five day get together was born out of the local scene’s desire to protect the local environment and their coastal breaks. Ellie Howard traces its growth and all round celebration of creativity.

  • Sport
  • Ellie Howard

Guts, glory and goat tossing at the World Nomad Games

All eyes on Bishkek — From kok boru to eagle hunting, Kyrgyzstan’s global showcase spotlights ancient sports and celebrates local traditional culture, while also stiffening the regime’s ambitions, reports Antoine Goullin.

  • Sport
  • Antoine Goullin

Dan Lacey: “BMX is forever evolving”

Overground — Steph Pomphrey caught up with the two-wheel legend after his latest meet in east London, chatting about fatherhood, music and action sports within the outdoor industry.

  • Sport
  • Steph Pomphrey
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Huck 84

It Starts With Us – 20th Anniversary Issue

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Inside the Los Angeles scene kid revival

The Rawring ’20s — For the cover of Huck 84, photographer Alexis Gross and writer Anna Zanes meet the latest faces of scene, who are finding freedom to express themselves through its technicolour, unafraid aesthetic.

  • Anna Zanes
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Three young musicians on a sofa holding electric guitars and a mini keyboard, in a cluttered rehearsal room with posters on the wall.

Lava La Rue is defying industry slop

Do You Know Everything? — The musician is one of London’s most exciting DIY creatives. For our 20th anniversary issue, they explain their process of making music, zines and art completely in their own way.

  • Z. Raza-Sheikh
Woman in cycling gear standing on a gravel track with her mountain bike on the ground, overlooking open hillside under cloudy skies.

The femme bikepacking group making meaningful adventures

Sisters in the Wild — With expeditions across Wales, Slovenia, Mongolia, Vietnam and beyond, the group are providing space for FLINTA cyclists to ride and connect with nature.

  • Sunny Sunday
Members Only
Young woman on a city pavement holding a lamppost, wearing a black leather jacket, white top, and red-orange maxi skirt.

Ahilya Bamroo is Gen Z India’s authentic ambassador

Reel relatable — The influencer turned actor speaks about trolls, beauty standards and youth activism.

  • Radhika Iyengar
Two men talking indoors near large printed photos on a wall; one in a camo jacket, the other in a black hoodie and cap.

What went down at Huck’s 20th birthday party

84 issues and counting — We took over east London’s Jaguar Shoes with friends old and new to celebrate two decades and our new issue, with Tony Bontana taking the decks for a special set.

  • Ella Glossop
© Alexis Gross

Introducing our new issue of Huck Magazine: It Starts With Us

Huck 84 — For our second 20th anniversary issue, we spotlight 20 people and groups providing the world with a hopeful future.

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Culture

Young person holding a red hibiscus flower over one eye, wearing a white graphic T-shirt, standing before a pale blue wooden door with a surfboard nearby.

London Surf / Film Festival returns this weekend

Share the stoke — Its 15th edition will take place from November 5-7 at Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios, with films from South Africa, Canada, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, USA, Sri Lanka, Ireland, France, UK and beyond.

  • Sport
  • Hannah Mildner
Woman in Lara Croft cosplay wearing teal top, brown holster harness, fingerless gloves, twin braids, aiming two pistols at camera.

Tank tops and akimbo wielding as Lara Croft came to town

Tomb Raider 30 — As the legendary video game celebrated her 30th birthday, around 80 superfans took part in a cosplay competition at her birthplace of Derby. Hatti Rex and Emily Rose England met some of the participants and found out what gaming’s greatest woman character means to them.

  • Culture
  • Hatti Rex
Group of children on a city street, one wearing a werewolf mask, others pulling scary faces and raising hands toward camera. Black and white.

Halloween in Brooklyn, photographed over 50 years

Spirits and soul — Larry Racioppo’s new book documents half a century of the October festivities in New York, while tracing the city’s ever-changing character.

  • Culture
  • Anna Stafford
Black and white close-up of a shirtless man lying down, city skyline visible behind him, other figures partially visible nearby.

Cruising on the West Side Piers, New York’s wild side

West Side Highway — In the late 20th century, the area was an if-you-know-you-know hotspot for the city’s gay scene. William Howell’s new photobook immortalises it.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
Members Only
Young woman on a city pavement holding a lamppost, wearing a black leather jacket, white top, and red-orange maxi skirt.

Ahilya Bamroo is Gen Z India’s authentic ambassador

Reel relatable — The influencer turned actor speaks about trolls, beauty standards and youth activism.

  • Huck 84: It Starts With Us
  • Radhika Iyengar
Two men talking indoors near large printed photos on a wall; one in a camo jacket, the other in a black hoodie and cap.

What went down at Huck’s 20th birthday party

84 issues and counting — We took over east London’s Jaguar Shoes with friends old and new to celebrate two decades and our new issue, with Tony Bontana taking the decks for a special set.

  • Huck 84: It Starts With Us
  • Ella Glossop
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Introducing ‘The Chaos Isles’, a new photozine by Huck and Yushy

Normal Island — From unlicensed raves to the solstice at Stonehenge, furries to giant vegetable growers, Yushy is one of the UK’s best lensmen of its wild side. ‘The Chaos Isles’ will be sent out exclusively to Club Huck+ members.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk

Music

Four people gathered around a dining table with snacks and drinks. Text reads "Huck presents Analogue Appreciation" in yellow-green lettering.

Analogue Appreciation: Bricknasty

forever — In an ever more digital, online world, we ask our favourite artists about their most cherished pieces of physical culture. Today, it’s Irish boundary rejectors Bricknasty.

  • Music
  • Bricknasty
Person with tall spiked mohawk and dramatic black face paint wearing a dark jacket, standing in front of a graffiti-covered wall in blue light.

Meet Italy’s new generation of gabber and hardcore warriors

Bergamo Hardcore — Photographers GabriTVB and Tchane’s new photo series follows Gen Z revivalists of the subculture and musical style, which broke through the country in the mid-’90s.

  • Music
  • Matthew Burgos
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Three young musicians on a sofa holding electric guitars and a mini keyboard, in a cluttered rehearsal room with posters on the wall.

Lava La Rue is defying industry slop

Do You Know Everything? — The musician is one of London’s most exciting DIY creatives. For our 20th anniversary issue, they explain their process of making music, zines and art completely in their own way.

  • Huck 84: It Starts With Us
  • Z. Raza-Sheikh

Photos of friends, lovers and afters in Berlin’s party scene

Dreams and How to Keep Them – Vincent Wechselberger’s new monograph documents a decade of hedonism in the German capital, and the people he met along the way.

  • Music
  • Hannah Mildner
© Melissa Auf der Maur

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.

  • Music
  • Miss Rosen
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How the Home Counties took over UK rap

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  • Music
  • Fred Garratt-Stanley
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The people fighting back against an AI future

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  • Ginnia Cheng
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How the Home Counties took over UK rap

  • The Huck Long Read
  • Fred Garratt-Stanley
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The people fighting back against an AI future

  • The Huck Long Read
  • Activism
  • Ginnia Cheng
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Signs of solidarity as London marks three years of genocide in Palestine

Never forget — 250,000 people gathered on Saturday as Israeli attacks have continued in Gaza and the West Bank. Daisy Schofield photographed the diverse people and placards in attendance.

  • Activism
  • Daisy Schofield

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.

  • Culture
  • Ella Glossop
Bronx, New York City, NY. July 20th 1972. Members of the New York street gang Savage Skulls. The trademark of the, primarily Puerto Rican, gang was a sleeveless denim jacket with a skull and crossbones design on the back. Based around Fox Street, in the popular South Bronx neighborhood, the gang declared war on the drug dealers that operated in the area. Running battles were frequent with rival gangs Seven Immortals, and Savage Nomads.

Photographing America’s 20th century rebels

Rebels With a Cause — A new monograph looks back at Jean-Pierre Laffont’s extensive archive documenting counterculture, art, activism and more, shaping the country as it is today.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk

Sports Banger is throwing a party to mark 90 years since the Battle of Cable Street

“Fascists hate dancing” — The October event will bring DJs, live music, sound system culture and anti-fascist politics together in East London.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glossop

Activists slam “pervert glasses” in new guerrilla campaign

Everyone Hates Elon — Stickers have appeared on the London Underground network, criticising the wearable technology’s covert filming capabilities.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk
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Four people gathered around a dining table with snacks and drinks. Text reads "Huck presents Analogue Appreciation" in yellow-green lettering.

Analogue Appreciation: Bricknasty

forever — In an ever more digital, online world, we ask our favourite artists about their most cherished pieces of physical culture. Today, it’s Irish boundary rejectors Bricknasty.

  • Music
  • Bricknasty
Young person holding a red hibiscus flower over one eye, wearing a white graphic T-shirt, standing before a pale blue wooden door with a surfboard nearby.

London Surf / Film Festival returns this weekend

Share the stoke — Its 15th edition will take place from November 5-7 at Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios, with films from South Africa, Canada, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, USA, Sri Lanka, Ireland, France, UK and beyond.

  • Sport
  • Hannah Mildner
Person with tall spiked mohawk and dramatic black face paint wearing a dark jacket, standing in front of a graffiti-covered wall in blue light.

Meet Italy’s new generation of gabber and hardcore warriors

Bergamo Hardcore — Photographers GabriTVB and Tchane’s new photo series follows Gen Z revivalists of the subculture and musical style, which broke through the country in the mid-’90s.

  • Music
  • Matthew Burgos
Woman in Lara Croft cosplay wearing teal top, brown holster harness, fingerless gloves, twin braids, aiming two pistols at camera.

Tank tops and akimbo wielding as Lara Croft came to town

Tomb Raider 30 — As the legendary video game celebrated her 30th birthday, around 80 superfans took part in a cosplay competition at her birthplace of Derby. Hatti Rex and Emily Rose England met some of the participants and found out what gaming’s greatest woman character means to them.

  • Culture
  • Hatti Rex
Members Only
Three young musicians on a sofa holding electric guitars and a mini keyboard, in a cluttered rehearsal room with posters on the wall.

Lava La Rue is defying industry slop

Do You Know Everything? — The musician is one of London’s most exciting DIY creatives. For our 20th anniversary issue, they explain their process of making music, zines and art completely in their own way.

  • Huck 84: It Starts With Us
  • Z. Raza-Sheikh
Group of children on a city street, one wearing a werewolf mask, others pulling scary faces and raising hands toward camera. Black and white.

Halloween in Brooklyn, photographed over 50 years

Spirits and soul — Larry Racioppo’s new book documents half a century of the October festivities in New York, while tracing the city’s ever-changing character.

  • Culture
  • Anna Stafford
Members Only
Protester holding a handwritten sign reading "Water for Humans NOT AI!" at an outdoor demonstration in an urban setting.

The people fighting back against an AI future

  • The Huck Long Read
  • Activism
  • Ginnia Cheng
  • 10 min read
Black and white close-up of a shirtless man lying down, city skyline visible behind him, other figures partially visible nearby.

Cruising on the West Side Piers, New York’s wild side

West Side Highway — In the late 20th century, the area was an if-you-know-you-know hotspot for the city’s gay scene. William Howell’s new photobook immortalises it.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
Woman in cycling gear standing on a gravel track with her mountain bike on the ground, overlooking open hillside under cloudy skies.

The femme bikepacking group making meaningful adventures

Sisters in the Wild — With expeditions across Wales, Slovenia, Mongolia, Vietnam and beyond, the group are providing space for FLINTA cyclists to ride and connect with nature.

  • Huck 84: It Starts With Us
  • Sunny Sunday
Members Only
Young woman on a city pavement holding a lamppost, wearing a black leather jacket, white top, and red-orange maxi skirt.

Ahilya Bamroo is Gen Z India’s authentic ambassador

Reel relatable — The influencer turned actor speaks about trolls, beauty standards and youth activism.

  • Huck 84: It Starts With Us
  • Radhika Iyengar
Two men talking indoors near large printed photos on a wall; one in a camo jacket, the other in a black hoodie and cap.

What went down at Huck’s 20th birthday party

84 issues and counting — We took over east London’s Jaguar Shoes with friends old and new to celebrate two decades and our new issue, with Tony Bontana taking the decks for a special set.

  • Huck 84: It Starts With Us
  • Ella Glossop

Photos of friends, lovers and afters in Berlin’s party scene

Dreams and How to Keep Them – Vincent Wechselberger’s new monograph documents a decade of hedonism in the German capital, and the people he met along the way.

  • Music
  • Hannah Mildner
View all

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