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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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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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A 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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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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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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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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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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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...

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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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Goodmans x Rig Out: Only One Choice In The City

You know Goodmans. They do those lovely portable radios from the '60s with the leather strap handle. That's how everyone knows them, but they've been around since 1923 and are still knocking out...

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K-Way Claude: Keep Dry And Look Fly

Don't be that person packing for a festival who thinks "It'll be muddy, I won't need any nice clothes" because you will. I'll tell you that now.  If you ask me, as far as jackets that'll keep you dry...

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Oi Polloi Have Opened In London

Everybody's talking about the brass houses and sex shops closing in Soho as though it's the death of the area. I disagree, and I'll tell you why.  If you know your onions you'll have noticed that as...

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The Greatest Pub Fight I Ever Saw: "The Human Torpedo"

The Cat & Mutton, Hackney, 2013. A loud argument had taken place between a table of mates and one noticeably pissed young chap. "Did you spill my jam jar of responsibly sourced organic wine?"...

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This Spray Will Make Your Trainers Stay Clean Forever

Pop quiz. Do you want to give out that 'standing in a queue for a kebab with the grimy remains of some Camden shithole pub's floor over your shoes' vibe? Do you think that's a good way to present...

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The Croydon Schoolgirl Taught Us All A Valuable Lesson About Drugs

"If you're gonna shot, shot properly". In a blind moral panic, most news outlets failed to notice that crucial line during the video of a 14 year old girl mercilessly punching a vulnerable boy in...

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5 Lairy Macs You'll Want This Summer

Don't kid yourself into thinking you won't need a new coat for the next few months. This is Britain. A game of cricket lasts longer than our summer.  The mac was born when Victorian rubber don Thomas...

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You Need The New Grace Jones Box Set

The Queen of Disco showed Parklife how it's done this week, performing topless in tribal body paint to the festival crowds. It's no surprise she's still grabbing headlines: the 67 year old refuses to...

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Umbro x The Rig Out: L.A.ds

If you'd come up to me 20 years ago after a kickabout in the flats and said "Tom, in the future LA street kids are going to be copying your outfit in fashion shoots" I'd have probably told you to fuck...

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The Oi Polloi x Reebok Trainer Is Coming

Oi Polloi have teamed up with British sportswear stalwart Reebok for a collaboration trainer to be released next week.  The Reebok x Oi Polloi NPC II takes everything that was beautiful about the 1985...

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They're Making A Goosebumps Film

The Goosebumps series of books are an integral part of the '90s kid DNA. If you didn't have one of the brightly coloured, textured covers on your desk for 'reading time' at school you weren't shit....

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