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The MA-1 Bomber: 6 Variations Of Your Next Spring Jacket

Believe it or not, your summer wardrobe owes more to advances in military air technology than your drone-blighted conscience would like to think. For if it wasn't for the US Air Force updating their...

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5 Trainers Every 00s Teenager Wore

Nike TNs Despite looking like creatures that would crawl the desert after a nuclear blast, the Nike TNs were immensely sought after. So much so that they successfully brought back the age old British...

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The Streets: Original Pirate Material - The Album That Changed My Life

The bulk of my school years were spent on an estate in North East London, kicking footballs around, loitering in stairwells, wasting time, surrounded by rows of post-war council flats painted a mixture...

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Lost London Clubs: The Loft

From its beginnings in the early '90s, Camden Lock's HQ and The Loft parties became the place to be for any discerning music head on a Wednesday night. “It was real, it was about the music,” Trouble...

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The 5 Best Flags In The World

My name is Tom and I am a vexillophile. The way every country can be neatly identified with its own visual representation is a massive buzz for me - I often leave people astounded / completely...

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Alessandro Moreschi: The Last Castrato

Luckily, or indeed unfortunately if you're reading this in the context of having watched X Factor recently, having one's balls cut off isn't a prerequisite for a successful singing career these days....

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Streets Of Rage 2 Is Still The Greatest Video Game Ever Made

The first level dropped you bang in the middle of the neon-lit, rain sodden streets. Evil megalomaniac Mr X had taken control of the city, backed up by a gang of thugs in double-denim with names nobody...

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An Ode To Waynes World's Del Preston

"So, Jeff Beck pops his head round the door and mentions there's a little sweet shop on the edge of town..." The immortal words of the greatest roadie who ever lived. He went to Woodstock and partied...

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Charlie Chan's: A Tribute To The Greatest Club I Ever Went To

[img via] You always remember the first club you ever went to. Stood in the queue doing your best to be chill, look like you've been there before, maybe share a little joke with your mates, don't make...

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The 5 Best Prince Songs You Won't Hear On The Radio

View image | gettyimages.com Head (Dirty Mind – 1980) Dirty Mind, Prince’s third album, signified the dawn of an artist who would go on to change the face of popular music forever. Although considered...

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12 Things Every First Internet Generationer Will Remember

1. Letting the world know what you're about by the case on your Nokia face off 2. EVERY garage track on Napster being attributed to DJ Luck and MC Neat 3.  Downloading fake hip hop collaboration tracks...

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Woolrich Weston Mac

Woolrich are best known for making parkas which can withstand temperatures colder than the back of your freezer where the forgotten fish fingers are. This season however, they've introduced a new...

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Stone Island Dyed Reflective Jacket

Who saw this coming then? Stone Island is now the darling of the fashion pack. Rappers from across the Atlantic dressing like geezers from Tottenham. Art students turning up to clubs like yoof scallies...

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Kojey Radical - 23Winters

If you ask me Kojey Radical is the most exciting artist Britain has at the moment. Bar none. In fact nobody even comes close. While Stateside rappers take up much of the media's attention, the Londoner...

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William Fox Baseball Cardigan

100% Ivy League steez coming straight out of Scotland in the shape of this William Fox cardi. If you like to dress like you knock about with the Kennedy's and your parents own a small vinyard in...

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Art Pepper - Straight Life

Many people say Art Pepper was the greatest alto-saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker era. He was also a drug addict who spent most of his life in and out of jail, deemed too crazy to be trusted with...

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Adidas 'Made In France' Stan Smiths - The Greatest Trainers I Nearly Had

My Stan Smiths story takes me back to a lads holiday mid 2000s. Kavos. Theatre of dreams. Laying by a noisy pool in the midday sun was doing nothing to shift a particularly weighty hangover, so I opted...

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Space Is The Place: An Introduction To Sun Ra And The Arkestra

"I'm doing a different kind of mathematics" Sun Ra The most influential yet under appreciated musician of the jazz era, if not all time, Sun Ra and his Arkestra's discography is one of the most...

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Stussy x Clarks Originals

You know when a pair of shoes stops you dead in your tracks and every thought other than "how can I get these on my feet in the quickest possible time" disappears into oblivion? That. I don't need to...

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9 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Vinyl

Only Buy What You Like This may seem like an obvious one, but it’s easy to jump in with dreams of discovering the reggae LP Peter Tosh used to skin up on in your local Oxfam and whacking it on Discogs...

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