Isaac Muk

Contributing Editor at Huck Magazine

Writer at Freelance

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Coming of age in New York’s ’70s punk heyday

1 week ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

Coming of age in New York’s East Village during its bohemian heyday, Angela Jaeger was in the mix just as punk hit the streets, turning Bowery and St. Marks into the mecca of the city’s underground scene. “I grew up on 11th Street and Second Avenue; it was very vibrant, electric, noisy, crazy kooks and artists walking around, and a lot of social activism,” she says. As the youngest sibling of three, Jaeger was hip to the ’60s but ready to do her own thing, so she headed over to CBGB in 1976.
Misan Harriman: “The humanity I bear witness to is extraordinary”

1 week ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

On May 25, 2020, along with millions of others, Misan Harriman watched the video of George Floyd being murdered by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The 10-minute-long clip, captured by a 17-year-old bystander, led to an outpouring of emotion across the world, with millions take to the streets to protest against racism and police brutality, including Harriman himself, who took his Leica to demonstrations in London and began taking pictures of attendees at marches.
The Nu China music scene is breaking through the firewall

1 week ago | theface.com | Isaac Muk |Feng LI

The seeds of Nu China were sown around a decade ago by pioneering leftfield club crews Genome 6.66 Mbp and SVBKVLT, who were some of the earliest proponents of deconstructed, weirdo electronic music in the country.
Ewen Spencer’s portrait of millennial hedonism with the cast of Skins

1 week ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

One evening in 2006, Ewen Spencer travelled up from his hometown of Brighton to Watford, northwest of London. He had been commissioned by Channel 4 to take promotional pictures for an upcoming teen drama, Skins, but didn’t have much of an idea of what to expect. “I didn’t know anything about Skins, no one did – I knew it was a production in Bristol,” Spencer recalls. “I got sent a DVD with a pilot on it and watched about 10 minutes of it.
Campaigners hack UK bus ads on Father’s Day to demand Alaa Abd…

1 week ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

Campaigners have hacked bus network advertising boards across London, Manchester and Leeds to protest the ongoing imprisonment of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah in Egypt. The protest ran yesterday, June 15, on Father’s Day, calling on the British foreign secretary David Lammy to take more urgent action in securing Abd El-Fattah’s release, while noting that Abd El-Fattah’s son Khaled Saif continues to grow up without the presence of his father.
The Ukrainian skatepark sanctuary on the frontlines of war

2 weeks ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

It’s mid-afternoon on Friday, May 30, and Pavlo Ihnatenko stops mid-sentence and picks up his laptop. “Stop, one moment – listen,” he says to me, on the other end of the line. He takes me outside of the room that he is seated in next to translator Stanislav and skater Bohdan, out into the open air, and points towards the sounds of air raid sirens and shells hitting the ground nearby.
Anderson Zaca captures carnival and community at NYC’s block parties

2 weeks ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

“The history of the block party has never been written,” photographer Anderson Zaca says with shock, no less intense today than 20 years ago when he first heard loud music coming down the block from his apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Intrigued, Zaca grabbed his camera and hit the streets. “It was cool – it reminded me of Brazil and brought me home a little,” he says. Hailing from São Paulo, Zaca arrived in New York 1995 at age 18.
The Getty Center’s first exclusively queer exhibition opens today

2 weeks ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

A new Getty Research Institute exhibition, $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives, explores the long history of LGBTQ+ people and culture in the USA, from 1900 to the present day. Curated by Pietro Rigolo, it is the Getty Center’s first ever exclusively queer presentation, which opens today, June 10, and runs until September 28.
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong tells ICE to “fuck off” in LA…

2 weeks ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

Green Day’s lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong has shared a video showing solidarity with Los Angeles protestors, after demonstrations broke out in the wake of Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) immigration raids on Saturday, June 7. Captioned simply with two emojis – a middle finger and an ice cube – the video shows footage from the protests, including a self-driving Waymo taxi set on fire tagged with “FUCK ICE”, as well as people appearing to be arrested and led away by authorities.
Yaya Bey: “Capitalism is exploitation, period”

2 weeks ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

This Q+A was first featured in Huck’s culture newsletter. Sign up to the mailing list here for more exclusive interviews, cultural dispatches and monthly recommendations. Yaya Bey wrote ‘raisins’ last summer on the way to London, while the singer was touring her 2024 album Ten Fold. The song – a dreamy, jazzy, soul number recorded at a gentle, finger-clicking pace – is the fifth track out of 18 on her upcoming expansive album do it afraid, which is set to release on June 20.

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