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With all the talk about scat bars and puke porn and octopus sex it’s easy to forget that Japan also caters to totally reasonable fetishes, like guys who wish girls walked around without pants all day. Comments/Enlarge | See all

If anything’s going to cut through all the divisive bullshit surrounding immigration and bring us all together it’s not going be some corny political slogan or a song or even a chain of restaurants. It’s got to be something profound and universal. Like embarrassing dads. Comments/Enlarge | See all

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ARTICLES BY RANDY PAN

NEWSFLASH: ELECTRO STILL SUCKS

But We Make Exceptions for D.I.M. and Brodinski

Although few history books will be using this as a reference, and many casual observers may not be aware of this, as far as some dance fans are concerned we have entered the post-Justice era. Since electroclash disbanded, like a rent boy rumbled by a policeman mid-job, there's been a promise of a new dawn of dance music inspired by the initial rumblings of, first, oldish producers like Alter Ego and Tiefschwarz, and before long the likes of Justice, Digitalism and Boys Noize. The first airing of tracks like "Rocker", "Waters of Nazareth", and ...

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Black Kids Are Too Busy For Vice

Introducing Black Kids, the new “buzz band”. Every couple of months a buzz band pops up, sometimes they’re good, sometimes they’re not. What unites them all is an array of attributes, no matter how trivial, that manage to get people inside the music industry—labels, journalists, PRs etc—talking about them...