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Sam Hockley-Smith

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Always Bet on Baby Keem

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By Sam Hockley-Smith, David Fischer
| Highsnobiety
Highway 95 is the longest highway in Nevada. Stay on it in either direction, and you’ll leave the state. Keep going, and you’ll eventually be in a different country. It’s reasonable to assume that most people who’ve spent a good chunk of time in America have touched at least some part of it.
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Dust to Glory

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By Sam Hockley-Smith
| Substack
WORDS BY BUD SCHMELING PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRAM PAULUSSEN VICTORYJOURNAL.COM An eternity removed from the iconic breaks of Kuta Beach—celebrated in Endless Summer, the Citizen Kane of surf movies—is the Regency of Jembrana, the ground zero for makepung, or Balinese buffalo racing. At the crossroads of steeplechase, animal pageantry, and agrarian festival, the annual competition celebrates the end of the rice harvest with specially bred buffalos and their jockeys careening around a dirt track.
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New Environments 10: Twenty Great Albums From 2025

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By Sam Hockley-Smith
| Substack
For decades, The Village Voice ran something called the Pazz & Jop poll. At the end of each year, they’d solicit lists from music writers—asking them to assign points from, if I remember correctly, 1-10, to their ten favorite albums and ten favorite songs. As the years went on and the lists became digitized, you could see who else voted similarly to you. Or if you were the only one who voted for a song or album. Or who voted most like you overall.
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