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Dance music pioneers Daft Punk’s explosive — and expensive — new album could have blown up in their faces. Instead, it’s pumped new life into the music industry.

Belgian footballers have been the stars of this Premier League season. So how did a tiny nation manage to produce the most vibrant young players in the world?

Esquire spends a day in LA with Chris Pine - Captain Kirk, CIA hotshot Jack Ryan and Hollywood's new breed of leading man.

News just in: the music business is in trouble. But wait. All is not lost. Today, savvy musicians are working out that there are still ways to make serious money in pop.

Esquire's Editor-At-Large Giles Coren explains why he decided to give up the drink (and how he's never felt better). Plus his 12 rules of boozelessness.

War reporter Ben Anderson talks to British and US serviceman in Afghanistan on the real story the politicians don't want you to hear.

As the dust from the Lance Armstrong case settles, Tim Lewis goes to Rwanda to investigate how the future of pro cycling lies in sub-saharan Africa.

On the 70th Anniversary of LSD, Will Self recreates the legendary Basel bike ride of LSD pioneer Albert Hofman - only this time he's clean.

At 25, Lionel Messi is already widely acclaimed as arguably the greatest player ever to kick a football — and only now is he entering his prime. But unlike many of his flashier contemporaries, Barcelona’s Argentine maestro remains an enigma: quiet, unassuming, self-deprecating to a fault and almost entirely closed to public enquiry.

In a hotel on the outskirts of his adopted city, while Dolce & Ga…

The Dark Knight, Star Trek Into Darkness, Oblivion, the list goes on. Esquire's editor Alex Bilmes wants to know why our blockbusters have gone all doom and gloom.