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Dìdi Is the First Great MySpace-Era Coming-of-Age Movie
The brilliant comedy-drama brings a grip of late-aughts signifiers—AIM chats, Facebook wall posts, Verizon Ringback Tones, Warped Tour bands—to the big screen in the most painfully accurate and hilarious way possible. Director Sean Wang tells GQ what it took to recreate an oft-overlooked period for his first feature film.
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The Story So Far’s Parker Cannon on Processing Grief, Befriending Blink-182, eBay Deep Dives, and His ‘Weird’ Relationship to Music
As his band's new album, I Want to Disappear, hits stores, the frontman tells GQ: “I'm in a much more comfortable place with who I am, where our band has gone, and where it's taken me.”
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Why Knocked Loose's You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To Is The Rock Record You Need To Hear This Summer
A Kentucky metalcore five-piece makes a third album built for drive-fast-and-scream-with-the-windows-down season.
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I Took Bass Lessons From a Punk Legend For a Year. I Learned About More Than Just the Bass
As a teacher, Fugazi co-founder Joe Lally helped one writer step outside his comfort zone. On the new album by his band The Messthetics, Lally steps out of his.
Style
How Turnstile Designed the Band's First-Ever Converse Sneaker Collaboration
The Baltimore hardcore heroes on their inimitable style and putting two stars on the legendary One Star shoe.
Culture
Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley Has Been on One Hell of a Ride
In an intimate, wide-ranging conversation, the veteran rocker opens up to GQ about nearly dying from COVID in September, what it was like dating Paris Hilton and Avril Lavigne, and why Sum 41 is breaking up after three raucous decades.
Culture
Shane MacGowan Will Outlive All of Us
The Pogues frontman, punk trickster-god, and poet of the gutter died Thursday in Dublin, but the songs he wrote and sang have always transcended time.
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Rob Harvilla, ‘90s Authority, Picks the Best Rock Year of the '90s
In a Q&A, the podcast host and 60 Songs that Explain the '90s author talks about context collapse, shoplifting, what we as a society owe Britney Spears, and the improbable cultural endurance of Weezer.
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The ’90s Were a Golden Age of Novelty Pop Hits. We Did Not Appreciate How Good We Had It
In an excerpt from his new book 60 Songs that Explain the 90s, critic and podcaster Rob Harvilla salutes the fluke hit singles that did as much as Nirvana to define the decade.
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The Blink-182 Album You Need to Hear Right Now Is From 2012
‘One More Time….’ could put the reunited pop-punks back on top, but a largely-forgotten pre-hiatus EP demonstrates what they’re capable of when they don't get along.
Grooming
Fellas, Is It Time to Bring Back Guyliner?
AFI’s Davey Havok, TikTok star Rainer, and others reflect on how the 2000s emo scene helped set the tone for modern gender expression.
Culture
The Hardest Working Drummer in Hollywood
Travis Barker's whole career has always veered toward the unpredictable—but even he never could have predicted, well... any of this.
Culture
Viagra Boys Are Skewering Toxic Masculinity One Punk Riff at a Time
Sweden's new punk-rock hell-raisers have made their name mocking right-wing fanatics, die-hard sports fans, drunken misogynists—and themselves.
The Studded Belt Is the Ultimate Style Upgrade
In the season of “more is more,” add a studded belt to give your look more confidence.
Culture
From Irish Punks to Irish Whiskey: A Night Out With the Pogues
"It's funny because St. Patrick's Day wasn't that big of a deal in Ireland."
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15 Punk Accessories from Last Night's Met Ball
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