ARTICLES BY ANDY CAPPER
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 LIBERIAN GIRLS AND BOYS
Have Better Vintage T-shirts Than YouVBS.TV recently visited Monrovia, Liberia, where we made a film with three former warlords called General Bin Laden, General Rambo and General Butt Naked...
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  THIS IS UKHC, NOT LA
The British hardcore scene is so exciting at the moment… and weird. A few years ago, the concept of major label A&Rs at hardcore shows was unthinkable, but now, probably thanks to things like Nirvana and Green Day getting signed, bands with their roots in DIY culture are being taken out to fancy pizza restaurants by people who work for huge labels...
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 NOLLYWOOD OMEN
Nigerian Christians Make the Best Drug-Party Film EverNollywood is the answer to CNN,” says a star of Nollywood Babylon, a Canadian documentary about the Nigerian film industry—a veritable movie factory that churns out 25,000 films a year at a budget of less than $10,000 each. I was so intrigued by the idea of cheaply made Nigerian fi...
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 SAME OLD BULLSHIT
Raekwon Keeps Us Waiting For Two Days, Then Talks About CakesThis magazine used to be well known for interviews with big-name American rappers. Back when Dave 1 from Chromeo was still writing for us every month we had scoops like Eminem’s first ever interview, Ol’ Dirty’s last ever interview, Lil’ Kim shot by Terry Richardson and Fat J...
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 TRAMP BOOZE AND 20P FX PEDALS
How The Horrors Made the Best Album of the YearDuring the course of this interview with Horrors guitarist Joshua Third, we experience the following technological breakdowns.
1. Gavin Watson loses his camera bag outside a pub...
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 HOOTS MON! IT'S HAGGIS TIME!
The Technology Behind Scotland’s National DishOch aye, Jimmeh! Is there anything more satisfying in life than a wee dram and a haggis after a hard day's kilt-wearing and Sassenach-hating? And is any haggis more dreamy to eat than a venison haggis made from the innards of a fine West Highlands deer that yee shot yerself? The answer is "Och no, J...
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 MORE THAN FASHION
Kim Jones and His Hardcore Tee CollectionKim Jones is the head creative director at Alfred Dunhill, which is one of the world's most prestigious, fancy and expensive men's fashion houses. A sought-after darling of the fashion world, nominated three times for "Man of the Year" by GQ magazine, and Kanye West's personal go-to guy for h...
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 UPWARDS AND ONWARDS
Edwyn Collins and His Birds of RecoveryEdwyn Collins is that cool Scottish guy who was the singer in Orange Juice. They were one of the best and most original British pop bands ever. He also did that song "A Girl Like You" which is pretty gay and has been used in a million commercials and movies, especially in montages of women trying on...
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 MAX BROOKS
Anybody who cares even an iota about the state of the world and what happens to people when disease and wars happen should read World War Z by Max Brooks. It's a fictional oral history of "the zombie wars" and it ranks as one of my favorite books of the last ten years. And I know what you're ...
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 MIMI LEUNG ADMITS THAT SHE IS INTERESTED IN POOP
Vice: Hello, Mimi Leung. Describe how you got to be talking to me here now via being born and then living as a human on this earth.
Mimi Leung: I was born in Hong Kong. My parents moved to the UK when I was two because they were nervous about unrest in China.
Oh, so you're saying...
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 IAN HISLOP
For those of you without taste or eyes, Private Eye is a fortnightly satirical newsprint magazine that contains more actual news than all the other British newspapers they made during the two weeks it takes to put their issue together. In fact, it is one of a very small number of news publica...
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 A WOMAN WHO MADE A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT VAGINOPLASTY
Heather Leach is a filmmaker from Rochdale, in the north of England, which is most famous for being the birthplace of 80s "soul" singer Lisa Stansfield. Recently, Heather plunged herself headfirst into the murky world of vaginoplasty, or "voluntarily having a plastic surgeon chop off...
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 CHRIS CUNNINGHAM
Chris Cunningham is a dark, reclusive genius who lives in an underground cave beneath the Thames. He spends his days rocking back and forth in a creaky old chair while projecting binary code onto the wall and reading the Russian translation of Dante's Inferno while Squarepusher records play b...
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 THE GREATEST DRUG OF ALL
Five-Way Loving With The Big PinkThe Big Pink are two friends called Milo and Robbie who make noisy shoegazey music with an ever-revolving band of musicians including people like Akiko from Comanechi and Daniel O'Sullivan who plays with SunnO))) and Ulver...
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 THE SECOND COMING
DJ Cut Hands Has the SolutionHands up who's always wished that somebody could make a record that was partly inspired by things like the traumatic stories of genocide from We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch?
Yeah, me neither, but the weir...
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 MERSEY INFANTICIDE
Inside the Violent Lives of Liverpool’s Eleven-Year-OldsIn the northeast of Scouserland, aka Croxteth, Liverpool, there lies a delightful old stately home. About 500 acres of it were made into a country park in 1972 and all through the year, families take day trips there to frolic in the fields, eat ice cream, and have a go on the swings. It's bloody lov...
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 BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO
Capricorns on a Temporary Semi-Permanent HiatusWhat happened to Capricorns? Out of that slew of metallic instrumental groups of the last five years they were easily the most interesting, probably by virtue of the fact they played songs that had more than one riff and tempo and didn't have to have 50 different new shirt designs on the merch stall...
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 NEW BEGINNINGS
Larry Jon Wilson is the Heartworn Highways GuyLarry Jon Wilson is the first person you see when you watch Heartworn Highways, the definitive documentary of the outlaw country movement of the mid-70s led by heroes like Townes Van Zandt and Steve Earle...
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