DEK is a print magazine covering music, film, and the arts with the kind of in-depth, long-form interviews that the internet promised to deliver and then mostly abandoned. The publication treats its subjects with genuine seriousness — not the reverence of a fan magazine, but the engaged curiosity of people who want to understand how creative work gets made and what it costs the people who make it.
The cover roster tells the story: Danny Elfman discussing his journey from Oingo Boingo frontman to the composer behind Batman and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Sleaford Mods on their new album The Demise Of Planet X. LL Cool J in an 18-page feature. The Charlatans celebrating We Are Love. Chuck D reflecting on 35 years of Public Enemy’s Yo! Bum Rush the Show. Bryan Adams on photography and career lows. The Horrors, Yungblud, Bush, Kula Shaker, Levellers, Maximo Park. Film is equally prominent: Robert Eggers, Jason Biggs, Justin Long, Zachary Levi, Brad Anderson, and horror FX legend Norman Cabrera have all been featured alongside the musicians.
Each issue balances established names with emerging voices — Billy Barratt discussing his acting career and his band The Hunger, Nova Twins on their album Supernova, Big Special revealing their plans ahead of a UK tour. The magazine also stocks its own merchandise, including retro-styled Tape DEK T-shirts that nod to the 80s synthwave aesthetic. For readers who miss the era when music magazines gave artists eighteen pages instead of eighteen seconds, DEK is building the archive that streaming culture forgot to make.
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