ARTICLES BY RYAN DUFFY
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 THREE OLDER KIDS WE THOUGHT WERE COOL IN HIGH SCHOOL
1. "Indie Rock" Jim, New Brunswick, NJ, interview by Ryan Duffy
Vice: So we probably met in 1998 or so, right? What were you doing?
Indie Rock Jim: I was going through the motions of county college, working a shitty job, and trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life...
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  CHARLES MAGGIO FROM RORSCHACH
We thought it might be interesting to talk to Charles Maggio, head yeller of seminal hardcore punks Rorschach, since, you know, their brutal melding of hardcore and metal pretty much altered the trajectory of punk music in America and all that jazz. It turns out Charles is pretty much just your average Joe who just so happened to front the best band...
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 COG AGAINST THE MACHINE
Nobody Gets Pissed JeansPissed Jeans do a lot of things that, on their own, could be deemed a bit much: yelping about silly stuff, a smidge of wankery, oppressive feedback everywhere. Fortunately, when these things are combined with aplomb and companioned with some prime-rib riffs, you get what are affectionately known in ...
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 A FULL POUCH OF THE NIGHT'S URINE
Clockcleaner Cleans ClocksClockcleaner play music in the great Scratch Acid tradition of not giving a fuck about the listener. It’s a feedback-heavy, midtempo march from start to finish, with little to no regard shown for conventional-song-structure silliness like having a chorus. Other things that Clockcleaner and lead sing...
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 MUSIC IS BORING
Ben Weasel Talks BaseballScreeching Weasel is pretty much the best band ever. Before the "pop punk" label become an insult, it simply meant punk rock written by a slightly more advanced species of miscreant, one with an ear for melody and some vague semblance of songwriting ability. The Weasel were exactly that: beer-drench...
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 BLOC PARTY HATE VICE
The Inside Scoop on Our Favorite BandAs you have probably already read in every sycophantic pop magazine in the world, Bloc Party are an "unpigeonholeable" band with tortured vocals urgently calling over methodically strummed guitars and a jerkily pounding backbeat. Vice Records signed them on October 25th (the same day the commies too...
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 MEXICO IS SCARY
Diamond Nights' Own PuppetsEvery issue, we have to do at least three features on "music," and to be honest, it's usually a bit of a bummer. It's not terrible, it's just kind of whatevs, like writing a five-paragraph essay defending your thesis that "cereal is a food." Everyone knows that cereal is a fucking food! That's why y...
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 HOW TO NOT CARE
Venomous Concept Can't Be BotheredIn some ultra-cool alternate universe where nobody is a cheesedick and tough-as-fuck dudes get together to do stuff like "break things" and "rule," some men from the bands Brutal Truth, Napalm Death, and The Melvins started a new band called Venomous Concept. But since this isn't said ultra-cool alt...
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