New Music Monday
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Top image: still, ‘Lust Over You’ by Genie Genie
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The Saturday Auteur
Ken Russell: religious orgies, psychedelic gore and cinema bans
Nicolas Roeg: twisting the psyche and turning rockstars into actors
Richard Linklater: the self-taught coming-of-age master
Lynne Ramsay: channeling violence and suffering through the eyes of a child
Charlie Kaufman: exploring existential concepts through mindfuck surrealism
Wednesday Art Idol
August Sander: the pioneering German documentary photographer who captured the face of a nation
Weekend Combo
The real Steve Zissou, Fabergé eggs and a Saint Etienne homecoming
Sarah Lucas: interrogating gender norms through euphemism and innuendo
Princess Di, fireworks and a Friday night gig crawl
Claude Cahun: the French surrealist who inspired Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin
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NEW MUSIC MONDAY
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All-time favs
“Play it at my funeral” – New Zealand’s Lucian Rice cuts us a playlist to die for
Songs that inspire and infiltrate
Amen Dunes takeover: Death Jokes playlist
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Stage show
Five films that inspired Ernest Rareberrg to bring ballet, opera and theatre to small venues
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Move + Groove
Hit play on Los Bitchos’ ‘Pre-Gig Pump Playlist’
Drop the needle
Fashion
We need this new Saint Laurent x Bang & Olufsen turntable
Stellina beat
“Iconic, intentional, innovative” – Sam Gellaitry on his Stone Island campaign
Major
Music
Little Simz will curate this year’s Meltdown festival
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
“It was this sonic conversation that happened very naturally” – Sharon Van Etten’s new record is a work of desert collaboration
Noise of the Void
Backstage at Detroit’s Leland Ballroom with LA’s silver duo, Drab Majesty
Airbag Woke Me Up
“Relatable, but charged up” – Jeshi unpicks his high-octane sophomore record
Watch here
Crack Cloud made us an exclusive UK tour short film
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The Kid LAROI: One Night in Detroit
Inside The HERO Winter Annual 2024
Film+TV
Nat Wolff in conversation with Alex Wolff on a tour bus in Baltimore
Eternal influences
From Kim Gordon to Marlene Dumas: the references at the heart of Stella Rose’s EP Hollybaby
New Gen Sound
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Broadcasting live
HERO SESSIONS: Fast Money Music – Space Opera / Hot Melt Glue
Hellraiser
Lemmy’s ashes are going on display in Stringfellows
Love and survival
“It’s an allegory for the world falling apart“ – Dua Saleh on their necessary new record
Pomegranate
“I honestly feel like I had died and I was born again” – Tess Parks’ new album happened for a reason
video premiere
Bande á Part’s debut track is a portrait of artistic chaos
Road to nowhere
What’s your favourite scary movie? Malice K selects grisly road trip film Dead End
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Icons of horror: John Carpenter in conversation with Claudio Simonetti
The Spooky Mix
Saint Laurent have reworked John Carpenter’s legendary horror soundtracks
HERO Festival Diary
Cobrasnake documents wild times at Miami’s III Points festival
Fentanyl
Video Premiere: Gold Star’s emotive tale of America’s troubled opioid crisis
Time travelling in Essex
Art
HERO Fiction: Figs by Scott Lavene