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Music
Between Friends: the sibling duo soundtracking your relationship highs and lows
Lustful longing
“Beauty doesn’t need to be absent of ugliness” – Martha Skye Murphy wants us to embrace rushes of joy and pain
New Music Monday
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Cellophane Memories
“Making this music was like capturing an errant conversation” Chrystabell on her new David Lynch collaboration
Q+A
Amen Dunes Takeover: Quick-fire round
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NEW MUSIC MONDAY
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Inside the studio
Amen Dunes takeover: “mixing shit digital sounds with analogue gear”
Death and everything else
Art
Amen Dunes takeover: the references behind the album artwork
Songs that inspire and infiltrate
Amen Dunes takeover: Death Jokes playlist
Amen Dunes takeover
“It hazes you until you surrender to it” – Amen Dunes unpicks his captivating new record Death Jokes
I Can’t Wait To See U Again
“The roots of what I do start with poetry” – Louis Culture’s sound is the beating heart of UK rap
Exclusive and intimate
HERO SESSIONS: Legss – Hyde Park Coroner
At home with…
HERO SESSIONS: The Paranoyds – Ratboy
shimmer end deep dive
HERO SESSIONS: Perfume – Cold Retreat
Leave it shaking
HERO Sessions: Palm Springsteen – Sister Sister
Tear it up
HERO Sessions: Palm Springsteen covers Alan Vega’s Wipeout Beat
You can do what you want to
HERO Sessions: DIIV covers Elliott Smith – Ballad of Big Nothing
The final throwdown
HERO Sessions: The Garden – We Be Grindin’
A well-tenderised GoPro
HERO Sessions: The Garden – Crystal Clear
An almighty racket
HERO Sessions: The Garden – What We Are
Heart Racer
Video exclusive: Baba Ali’s new track will get your beat pulsing and palms sweating
Exclusive premiere
Deadletter take us BTS on the video for their new track ‘Mere Mortal’
Everyone’s Crushed
“I actually think this project has made me better at Karaoke” – an interview with NYC’s Water From Your Eyes
The Irony of it all
Fashion
Mike Skinner finally has his own Reebok Classic’s
Exclusive diary
Bande á part, The Midnight Audience, End of Europe and Tabac Rat live from the old piano factory
3D Country
New York’s most exciting new band: Geese in conversation with The Flaming Lips
The Voidz
HERO 31 Cover Interview: Julian Casablancas and Alex Carapetis
Big Sigh
Marika Hackman showcases Fender’s Highway Series and unpicks her raw new record