Huck

Huck is inspired by DIY culture, featuring people who make you think, who challenge the system, who strike out on their own. Packed with intelligent journalism and stunning photography, it covers the people and the places that are shaping culture all over the world.

Huck

EDITORʼS LETTER

KOJEY RADICAL • THE SCARIEST THING YOU CAN DO IS LOOK DOWN…

LIFE IS HARDCORE • THE HIGH VIS FRONTMAN OPENS UP ABOUT SURVIVING EVERYTHING THE WORLD HAS THROWN AT HIM

INSIDE TRACKS • HOW TEACHING IN PRISONS AND A NEW MIXTAPE IS INSPIRING RAPPER JORDS

S/HE IS STILL HER/E

EAST X SOUTH EAST • WE SIT DOWN WITH LONDON RAPPER JIANBO—VANGUARD OF A BURGEONING ESEA MC MOVEMENT

SKATE PUNKS

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 ALONG AND WHY SETTING UP THE ASSOCIATION OF MUSIC EDITORS IS AN ATTEMPT TO LIBERATE IT FROM CORPORATE TYRANNY AND NEGLECT…

SWEET HARMONY • DOCUMENTING THE SPIRIT OF RAVE IN UNUSUAL PLACES

FUNK IS LIFE • CAPTURING THE ENERGY OF PASSINHO DANCERS IN RIO’S FAVELAS

THE RHYTHM OF THE OCEAN • French surfer Johanne DeFay is a bronze medal-winning Olympian, who lives and surfs on Réunion Island, just west of Madagascar. For the past 12 years she has been storming tournaments, travelling the world to compete on the pro circuit. We asked her how music inspires her training regime.

ALL AT SEA • IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, AN UNDERGROUND MUSIC SCENE IS BUBBLING UP

TECTONIC FOLK MUSIC • THE FOLK SINGING SEISMOLOGIST RAISING EARTHQUAKE AWARENESS

SYRIAN RAPPERS • A RARE OPEN MIC HIP-HOP NIGHT IN LATAKIA

TRICKS, TRUCKS & TRACKS • NOT QUITE A SKATEPARK. NOT QUITE A MUSIC VENUE. SOMETHING MORE ELUSIVE

WE ARE BLACK FISH: RECLAIMING THE SEA, ONE HOOK UP AT A TIME • BLACK PEOPLE HAVE LONG BEEN EXCLUDED FROM BRITAIN’S RURAL AND COASTAL SPACES. WE ARE BLACK FISH IS CHANGING THAT — ONE GATHERING, ONE CAST, ONE FIRE AT A TIME

SPORTS BANGER • FOUNDER OF THE INFAMOUS SPORTS BANGER COLLECTIVE, JONNY BANGER HAS MANY STRINGS TO HIS BOW. BASED OUT OF THEIR HQ, “MAISON DE BANG BANG” IN TOTTENHAM, NORTH LONDON, HE’S A RENOWNED FASHION DESIGNER, KNOWS HIS WAY AROUND A PUNCHY SLOGAN AND THE DARK ARTS OF BOOTLEGGING, HE’S FAMOUS FOR SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER AND NEVER NOT STANDING UP FOR WHAT’S RIGHT. JONNY’S ALSO MADE BOOKS, PUBLISHED ZINES, IS A COMMUNITY VOICE, A DJ, A RECORD LABEL OWNER, NOISE MAKER, A RAVE THROWER AND A RAVE GOER. HE’S COLLABORATED WITH THE KLF, JEREMY DELLER, SKEPTA, THE ICA, XL RECORDINGS AND MORE. NOT TO GO TOO OVER THE TOP BUT, IN THE UK AT LEAST, SPORTSBANGER IS A CULTURAL TOUCHPOINT.