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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

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.

  • Music
  • Jack Dennison-Thompson

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
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© Benedict Priddy | Khroma Collective

Washing strangers’ feet at Houghton Festival

Pedilavium — As part of artist Henry Krokatsis’s performance piece at the weekender, we sat down with over 30 others to clean the dusty digits of passersby, while reflecting on the power of collective ritual and human connection.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk

As Hanoi’s nightlife faces raids & repression, its underground scene modulates

Spaces Between the Beats — Tensions between nightlife and authorities have grown in recent times, as police target venues and their patrons with increasingly frequent drug testing and searches. With clubs becoming hostile spaces as a result, Hanoi’s electronic music community is finding new spaces and forms of expression, reports Martin Guttridge-Hewitt.

  • Music
  • Martin Guttridge-Hewitt
Ika Schwander ‘Two of Swords’, Apolemia © Julien Janssens

Horst Festival is a blueprint for a creative, collective future

Hymn — Highlighted by an engrossing performance directed by Fallon Mayanja, the 2026 edition was a showcase of ASIAT Park’s ever-evolving space as an incubator for art, music and creativity.

  • Music
  • Isaac Muk

The rise of anywhere and everywhere radio

Cooking up broadcasts — From a London rickshaw to a shipping container in Ukraine, independent stations are redefining what a studio looks and feels like. Bella Koopman speaks to DIY station founders to find out more.

  • Music
  • Bella Koopman

“So often, people go to a place and don’t know why they’re there”: Moor Mother & Hieroglyphic Being in conversation

Immaculate Deception Of History — Ahead of their live performance as Immaculate Deception Of History at this year’s Rewire, we caught up with the avant-garde, system challenging duo about the dawn of their new collaboration. 

  • Music
  • Huck

In photos: Euphoric joy at the UK’s biggest ever anti-racism march

Together — 500,000 people marched through central London on Saturday to protest the far right and racism, followed by a packed House Against Hate rave taking place in Trafalgar Square.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk

‘We’re going to stop you’: House Against Hate tap Ben UFO, Greentea Peng and Shygirl for anti-far right protest

R3 Soundsystem — It takes place on March 28 in London’s Trafalgar Square, with a huge line-up of DJs, artists and crews named on the line-up.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glossop
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The story of World Headquarters, the beating heart of Newcastle’s underground

Refuge & ruckus — Sprouting from free party roots, the nightclub institution has been an inclusive pillar of the North East’s music scene since the early ’90s. Olivia Fee dives into its long history, evolution, and ongoing importance.

  • Music
  • Olivia Fee
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In photos: The UK’s first trail-running powered club night

Trail Sonified – Staged in a car park on the edge of the Lake District, Merrell turned data gathered from athletes into a full-blown party at Kendal Mountain Festival, in a collision of underground music and overground sport.

  • Music
  • Ella Glossop

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