 FROM CUTE TO CREEPY
Laylah Ali Chops Off Her Green Head
When people look at Laylah Ali's art they inevitably think, "Look at the cute little green roundheaded guys doing all the funny stuff. It's like a comic book but grown up. Neat." Then they notice that the little guys are getting their hands chopped off, wearin...READ MORE |
  BEATS AND RHYMES
The X-Ecutioners are one of the most important DJ collectives in rap history. They've got a new mix-CD out called Scratchology (Sequence), which is a wicked history lesson for anyone interested in the development of DJ/scratch music over the last couple decade...READ MORE |
 ME SO HORNY
Me Want to Throw Up
For Su-en Wong, culture has always been one of those "'What are you rebelling against?' 'Whaddya got?'" kind of things. "I grew up with a very strict and structured social and education model in Singapore," she tells us, "and I tried whenever I could and howev...READ MORE |
 DEAR DIARY
Entry: April 1996, part 1
April 1996, part 1
Dear Diary,
I failed my road test for the motherfucking third time. I really can't believe it. The guy was such a dick and I feel so incredibly stupid. NO ONE fails three times! I can never do anything right. I'm so sad and mad....READ MORE |
 HOLY SHIT!
The New Fucking Carnage Tape Has Finally Arrived
Unless you've had your head up your ass your whole fucking life, you know that Richard "Big Pinky" of TV Carnage Inc. is the motherfucker who watches five hundred hours of shitty TV and then edits it down to an hour and a half of pure fucking gold. Unbelievabl...READ MORE |
 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
Co-opting culture vultures drop the term "underground" so often that it's become as meaningless as the UN. Nowadays, chances are if you pick up a release that claims to be "underground," it's probably going to be a collection of generic 4/4 beats. Well, two la...READ MORE |
 WHAT’S WITH ALL THE WEIRD DISEASES?
All I Did Was Eat Some Jungle-Rat Crackling
When I heard all about how SARS was a "zoonosis" virus that could be caused by eating unclean, disease-ridden exotic animals, I suddenly thought back to the news of Mad Cow, when experts had linked its most basic origins to an expensive Chinese restaurant in L...READ MORE |
 I CALL BULLSHIT...
On Tons of Stuff
This stewardess seems pretty and nice and everything, but why are we supposed to sit here and learn what to do when we go careening into the ocean? I already know what to do. Blow up into a thousand pieces and drown. Got it. Do you actually think I believe tha...READ MORE |
 I WANT MY DVDS
Fighting Mad: XXX, Blind Date: Uncensored, 50 Cent: The New Breed, American Misfits: Scandal, Skits, Debauchery and Skateboarding...READ MORE |
 OUR TEN FAVORITE PSYCHOPATHS
Life in the Mental-Health Unit Is Fun as Hell
You get to meet a lot of fucking psychopaths when working in the mental-health unit of an East Coast maximum-security prison. All of the inmates I worked with were post-trial (already sentenced). Some were permanently in the mental health unit because they wer...READ MORE |
 MY AMERICA
David Cross is on vacation in Salt Lake City, where he is preparing dinner for his many wives. He has asked fifteen-year-old Taylor DuPont, a freshman at Walton Prep Academy just outside of Port Chester, Connecticut, to fill in for him on this month's column. ...READ MORE |
 MOMMA'S BOYS
The Rich and Well-Established Families Behind Today's Media
Late last month, just as the war in Iraq was kicking into overdrive, the New York Times ran a front-page analysis of what it said was the US military's overdetermined "working class" composition. The piece raised anxieties about the possible development of a "...READ MORE |
 MY FRIEND
Cat Power Can't Scream Like Emma Louise Niblett
Ok, first of all, Emma Louise "Scout" Niblett doesn't sound like Cat Power, so stop saying that. Comparisons abound, and they irritate Scout, whose voice is breathy and kind of the same pitch as CP. But the spontaneity and wonder in Scout's strumming, lullaby ...READ MORE |
 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Bullshit Issue
OZZY SLIPPERS
British slippers are cool because they show that you stay at home so much you need special home shoes. Not the kind you casually slip on, but the kind you have to like, sit down and pull over your heel. That is couch potato commitme...READ MORE |
 THE DAWNING OF A NEW ERA
Will American Techno Ever Be Good Again?
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 ...READ MORE |
 THE ERA HAS ARRIVED
American Computer Music Saves the Day
Every two years or so, everyone gets sick of generic music bullshit and gets down to destroying it again. It's easier to do this now than ever before, what with cheap equipment, access to unlimited materials via the internet and, most importantly, a new wave o...READ MORE |
 IN DA CLUB
Peedi Crakk Gets His Gat Past the Black
Back in the day, you couldn't be a Latino MC without wearing Nike Cortez, baggy white jeans, and a plaid shirt. Thankfully, Big Pun broadened everyone's horizons by urging MTV audiences to chant, "Boriqua! Morena!" But is there really a middle ground between t...READ MORE |
 THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT
So Shut The Fuck Up
Do you remember when you were at school and instead of doing something normal and shitty like not doing your homework or smoking or fighting you actually did something good for a change? Like helping a smaller kid with a heavy package, or passing a difficult t...READ MORE |
 GAMES
Bloodrayne
BLOODRAYNE
Maybe it was something to do with the fact that the first masturbation material I ever really had was watching the topless Dracula films from the 60s on ITV at 1.30a.m, but I’ve always had a thing for girls with fangs, plunging necklin...READ MORE |
 THE VICE GUIDE TO BANGLA METAL
Five Things About Four Bands
By focusing on the poverty associated with Bangladesh, seldom do we pause to consider and appreciate the rich cultural heritage of Bengal.
To the outsider it may look like a smelly bolthole of a cesspit, but actually the region has been a melting pot ...READ MORE |
 MAXIMUM HOMO-CAUST
Zeigenbock Kopf Go Crazy For Cock
Hands up who's stumbled into a gay club by accident and ended up having one of the best nights ever? Admit it-we've all been there. I fondly remember my first time, spending a balmy Sunday afternoon in July down by the rail tracks at Ost Gut, the dingy bunker ...READ MORE |
 PARADISO HANDJOBS
Italian Disco Make-A You Wet
I couldn't believe how much fun summer '84 in Italy's Rimini was-Britain was a miserable grey dump and, before acid house, the NME hadn't given heteros permission to go clubbing or listen to dance music yet. Warm sunshine and Adriatic sea-breeze to caress your...READ MORE |
 DUSTED
Joe Budden Bugs The Fuck Out
Nearly everybody under the age of 25 in America smokes it at Christmas, but hardly a single British person has ever tried the unpredictable delights of angel dust.
This amazingly dangerous drug (AKA PCP or "Dip") was first cooked up by some US scienti...READ MORE |
 AND BAKED
Ghetto Priest Flips The Fuck Out
Everybody knows that potheads are paranoid, but recently a group of Swedish scientists proved that regular consumption of cannabis can increase your risk of developing schizophrenia by 30 percent....READ MORE |
 DRUG BUDDIES
How The Hells Got High
I first met my friend Philly Kev when he was living above a rock bar in Soho, London. We had mutual friends and a mutual interest in being scumbags so we used to hang out in his room and smoke opium that we got from Mo, an Iranian guy Philly (he's from Philade...READ MORE |
 SHATTERED DREAMS
Madonna Ruined Our Band
Hey what happened? One minute Zoot Woman are primed to take over the world with their sharp tunes and fancy suits, the next they've vanished off the face of the planet.
Blame fucking Madonna. Two years ago, just as they released their amazing debut al...READ MORE |
 NEW HORIZONS
And Underwater Love
It's funny how just when you think you've run out of new fantasies, when there can't possibly be any form of sexual deviance you haven't thought of, you see a porno like Bongwater Butt Babes, (www.blackmirror.com) where women smoke marijuana out of a bong stuf...READ MORE |
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