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Outbreak: the heart and soul of hardcore
POP CULTURE
Love Island Power Rankings: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 (VICE)
The Genius of Jennifer Coolidge (New Statesman)
Butterfly Girl: The Cult of a 90s Nu Metal Heroine (10 Magazine)
Welcome To the New, Deranged Era of Celebrity (Dazed)
How System of a Down Radicalised a Generation of Metal Fans (VICE)
Thugged, All Laced, and Bugged: On LEN’s “Steal My Sunshine” (CREEM)
How Mainstream Emo Made Us Talk About Mental Health (VICE)
Dispatches From a Teenage Napster Obsessive, 20 Years Later (The Guardian)
In Defence of Megan Barton-Hanson (VICE)
The Full Ponty: How Satellite City Nailed the Spirit of the Welsh Valleys (The Quietus)
Depictions of Mental Health On TV Have A Class Problem (VICE)
Toploader’s “Dancing In the Moonlight” Saved My Life… Sort Of (VICE)
The fight for london’s new generation of fetish clubs
SEX & LIFESTYLE
The Curse of Being Horny: On Adam Levine’s Sexting Scandal (Refinery29)
The Unlikely Stars of OnlyFans (The Guardian)
I Asked Stifler’s Mom To Fix My Sex Life (VICE)
Millennial Cougars and the Rise of the Micro Age Gap (The Sunday Times)
‘How I Marie Kondo’d My Whole Life (The Guardian)
Home Coming: Pontypridd
POLI-CHARGED
Things Could Be Good (Dazed)
Is the UK Running Out of Babies? (Rolling Stone)
Generation Covid: Merthyr Tydfil (The Face)
Cut Out: How Austerity Targeted Rural Towns and Communities (Huck)
The UK’s Proposed ‘Anti-Trafficking’ Bill Would Hurt Sex Workers (VICE)
The Rise and Rise of GHB, the Most Dangerous Club Drug in the World (VICE)
Tracing the Tactics of 21st-Century Youth Protest
Using nonviolence, humour, and pop culture savviness, a group of Serbian university students sparked a revolution and provided a blueprint for global youth movements.
Whether its navigating a war-zone, or becoming a public figure in a violent patriarchal society, these artists are using their music to become important voices of the times we live in.