ARTICLES BY MATT EBERHART
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 BLACK METAL PIGEONS
Windir Camp Out on the RoofWindir is an epic black metal band that lives in Sogndal, Norway, pop. 3,500. Of course, they can't actually say it's where they "come from," since they've never left long enough to have lived anywhere else.
Unlike those high-school dropouts who stick around their hometowns getting fat, bald, and gross, Windir have remained in their native land like an ...
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  BIRD-WATCHING BONERS
Indigo People Makes Nature Sexy AgainIndigo People sounds more like the name of a moon-worshipping hippie commune in Northern California than the current darling of the New York City fashion scene. The work of designer Siri Kuptamethee really exists somewhere in-between the two, indebted to both the wild frontier and the urban hordes. "My clothes definitely have an outdoor kind of feeling," he says from his Chinatown studio, ...
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 USA! USA! USA!
The Special Olympics of Avant FashionWhen Humberto Leon and his Opening Ceremony co-founder Carol Lim took a trip to Hong Kong a couple years ago, they were so impressed, both of their asses blew off and slammed against the wall....
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 THE DAWNING OF A NEW ERA
It may be considered the American way to "put a boot in your ass," as country singer Toby Keith would say, but we've been getting our ass kicked on the techno front for way too long. Sure, Detroit and Chicago made their marks. But that was what? Fifteen years ago? After those cities left the spotlig...
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 & STONED
Fursaxa Inhales the Bad and Exhales the GoodWhen I was TWELVE, there was this golden moment when I realized The Grateful Dead were not another awesome band with mind-blowing extended jams, far-out mascot skeletons and dancing bears. They were, in fact, shit. The universal symbol for lame stoner doods with extra-large T-shirts and a different ...
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 HARD ON
Long Live Tujiko Noriko's Beaming JoyFinally there's someone who isn't afraid to let her happy thoughts spill out like crayon-drawn smiley suns and flowers. Tujiko Noriko is a musician who drops the rock star front and just lets her heart pour out....
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 YAKUZA NOISE TERROR
Xinlisupreme Fling Knives at SanityYasumi Okano and Takayuki Shouji are a couple of mysterious music nerds from Oita, Japan, who describe themselves as a "tender, strange, spiritual, violent band." And as Xinlisupreme, they've built a psychosexual robot-whore composed of Merzbow's torso, Suicide's arms, My Bloody Valentine's legs, an...
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 FUCK MUSIC
Venetian Snares Mix Dance Music With PornI remember being 16 or 17, sitting in my high school physics class, and staring at incomprehensible formulas on the chalkboard, when suddenly I confronted one of those decisive milestones. It's not like I discovered some new law or theory or anything even remotely scientific. I didn't even get the r...
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