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Video premiere: The Vacant Lots return with new track ‘Amnesia’
Young, Wild & Free
Fashion
Hedi Slimane photographs Wiz Khalifa in Celine
Amped up
You can now buy a Saint Laurent Fender Stratocaster
Five things
Beach Fossils’ Dustin Payseur on five pieces of art he can’t go without
Move + Groove
Hit play on Los Bitchos’ ‘Pre-Gig Pump Playlist’
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Exclusive LP stream
Osees’ John Dwyer – orchestrator of distortion
Desert rebirth
“It’s a recovery album” – how a trip to Mexico inspired Freddie Cowan’s redemptive solo debut
Sonic boom
Live from Austin Psych Fest: Georgia Mitropoulos’ festival diary
Ready for Wide Awake
Montreal trio Cola curate a playlist of songs for blissed-out roadtrips
Allegiance sworn
Current affairs
The HERO alternative coronation playlist – cheers to being royally fucked
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
Western Mystery Tradition
Video premiere: Detroit trio Moonwalks take a psychedelic trip to Coney Island
Hydranism
Oracle Sisters on crafting their debut record in a former carpet factory on the island of Hydra
Internal Affairs
“I’m so nostalgic, to a fault” – Buzzy Lee’s sophomore record retraces moments of beauty and heartbreak
HEROINE 18 cover story
FLOHIO and Eve in conversation – musical lineage in action
Beat. Rhythm. Flow.
“As long you feel something it’s dedicated to you” – WhereIsFenix makes music with feeling
Josh Caffé’s melodic basslines are at the beating heart of London’s underground dance scene
Sports
Video premiere: yunè pinku’s latest single is a dancefloor riposte to society’s screen-time addiction
HEROINE 18 PREVIEW
yunè pinku makes euphoric music that turns the dancefloor into a comfort blanket
Lea Occhi: DJ and co-founder of inclusive Parisian techno haven, Spectrum