Huck 49 – The Survival Issue

Once you get started, how do you keep going?

Huck’s search for an indie culture manifesto continues. After you’ve made that first jump into the unknown, where do you go next? The Survival Issue asks how to fight against the odds to move forward and keep the show on the road.

Art & Culture > Print

Huck releases first book Paddle Against the Flow – a bible of creative advice

Out on Chronicle March 3

Inspiring indie icons – from Douglas Coupland and Spike Jonze to Miranda July and Kim Gordon – give us advice on how to live a creative life.

Art & Culture > Music > My Life in Music

What happened to the post-punk No Wave movement?

Evidence of life

No Wave burst out of New York’s underground in the late 70s and early 80s then faded from view, but its influence lives on - if you know where to look.

Art & Culture

Huck’s Most Popular Reads, Feb 22-28, 2015

A roundup of the hottest stories on the site this week

Winter's waning. Scan these stories, back away from the screen and get outside with the confidence you know what you need to.

Ride > Skate > Top Picks

Putting Namibia on the skateboarding map

Into the unknown

South Africa’s adidas skateboard team drop a dope edit from their Namibian tour.

Art & Culture > Style

Why is everyone losing their shit over Neil Young on Supreme?

Just a guy on a shirt

Folk hero Neil Young collaborates with cult 'skate-wear' brand Supreme and makes Beliebers out of otherwise rational people.

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Art & Culture > Music > Top Picks

Meet Vladimir Putin’s favourite DJ

The oligarchs’ go-to turntablist

DJ Fenix is making the Kremlin is bounce to the beat of EDM.

Art & Culture > Music

Terakaft announce new album and live date

Desert rock pioneers

Tuareg rebel rockers Terakaft share behind-the-scenes video for new album Alone.

Art & Culture

What happened to the gritty old New York City?

Beating back gentrification and Taylor Swift

Video series New Wave New York asks the Big Apple's brightest young creatives for their beef with a city changing beyond recognition before their eyes.

Art & Culture > Art

The art of not looking away

Confronting racism by making the past clash with the present

LA retrospective gives museum director Mark Steven Greenfield his due as an artist.

Art & Culture

Can a skatepark transform a troubled community?

Oakland’s Town Park DIY skatepark gets a concrete makeover

Beautiful new short documentary Skateboarding in Oakland shows how a skatepark can be a force for positive change.

Ride > Skate > Top Picks

Is this the trippiest skateboarding music video ever?

Skateboarding meets CGI - and it’s not shit

Joywave’s surreal new music video for ‘Somebody New’ breaks the golden rule that skateboarding and special effects should not mix.

HUCK #48 PLAYLIST

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The uprooted kids playlist

Creativity and nomadism

We meet the military brats who turned to art to express their mixed sense of roots. Featuring Joe Strummer, Peter Doherty and more.

The Lower East Side playlist

NYC's counterculture petri dish

Artist, photographer and popular historian Clayton Patterson is our guide to the best of the Lower East Side's alternative culture.

Sinkane’s musical movements across the globe

A musical map

Sinkane has soaked up influences from everywhere he's called home, from Sudan to London to the States. See his inspirations mapped out in our globetrotting playlist.

The Rebel Cultures Playlist

Origins of punk and hip hop

Photographer Janette Beckman captured the birth of some of the most influential subcultures of the Twentieth Century.

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