HOUDINI: The Culture. The Message. The People.
HOUDINI is the brainchild of Erik Houdini and a faceless army—writers, artists, musicians, freaks, radicals, addicts, workers, nobodies. We are communists. Anarchists. Acid communists. Envorimentalists. We come from South Louisiana, East St. Louis, Appalachian Tennessee, the rainy slums of London and all cross the world. From service work, from hanging sheetrock and scrubbing toilets, from starving artist grind, from the ruins of the internet, from the edges of a collapsing empire. HOUDINI exists to reclaim the counterculture from the branded dead.
Relaunched in November 2024, HOUDINI has exploded into the one of the fastest ground underground culture magazines, with over 400,000 unique views and 15,000+ weekly readers. No sponsors. No corporate leash. No algorithmic filter.
We publish what the corpos won't touch—hard-hitting essays, dirt-under-the-nails journalism, political polemics, experimental zines, art galleries, music, underground games. Everything from subcultural history to anti-capitalist breakdowns, DIY scenes to psychic warfare. Because the political is personal.