 WHO IS ERIK LAVOIE?
And What Becomes a Legend Most?
Erik Lavoie is many great things to many great people. Like what? Shit, it's hard to know where to begin. Like with God. Do you start when he was born? Do you talk about what he does today? I don't know....READ MORE |
  BEATS AND RHYMES
It ain't how much you say, it's what you say. I got no fuckin' time on the page to play. So yesterday I get an envelope at my door. Return address says "Spytech Records," and I'm happy as fuck. Why? Because about a week before, DJ Cheapshot told me he was mail...READ MORE |
 ERIK LAVOIE'S SMILE
The Mystery of That Magical Grin
For centuries scholars have stared at the face of Erik Lavoie and said to themselves, "What the fuck is up with that smile? It's like a not-smile." It's like the sun. You can feel its intense energy and dig its vibe, but as soon as you look at it-you can't loo...READ MORE |
 BY DESIGN
It seems as if every 3-D artist is a lonely nerd from Erik Lavoie's home province (Quebec). Why is that? Why are they cheesier than a Belgian croque monsieur? What horrid loser-fication happens between 2 and 3 Ds? If you've spent any time online looking at thi...READ MORE |
 ERIK’S MOM
An Interview with the Virgin Mary
VICE: First of all, it is a real honor to be talking to you, and thank you for birthing Erik Lavoie.
Pennie Lavoie: You're welcome.
What did Erik look like when he was first brought unto the world? Was he glowing?
Oh, just a wr...READ MORE |
 DEAR DIARY
Entry: 1990
1990
Love
when i look at him
it's like looking into the sun
except i don't squint my eyes or go blind
if i wear sunglasses
i know that he is fake...READ MORE |
 VA CHIER
Mon Esti de Calissede Tabernac de Criss de Con
Tout allait bien. j'etait en secondaire une. J'allais a L'Academie Lafontaine de St-Jerome. J'étais un anglais franco Québéquois qui savait toute les jokes de Slap Shot, Elvis Gratton, et des Bleu Poudres comme tout les autres. La seule différence était qu'à l...READ MORE |
 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
Holy fuck, we can't get enough of the new Manitoba album, Up in Flames. We know we mentioned it last month, but that psychedelic shit gets better with every listen. In a recent chat with Electric Indy, Dan Snaith, the mastermind behind Manitoba, told us why....READ MORE |
 GO SHIT
My Host of Chalice of Tabernacle of Dumb Christ
Everything was going good. I was in secondary one. I went to the Lafontaine Academy of St. Jérome. I was an English French Quebecois who knew all the jokes in Slap Shot, Elvis Gratton, and Blue Powder like all the others. The sole difference was that I would s...READ MORE |
 SURAPHON CHANPHANITPORNK
Goes Toe-to-Toe with Erik Lavoie
Christi Bradnox: Hello, we're interviewing New Yorkers about Erik Lavoie, this gentleman here. [introduces Erik]
Suraphon Chanphanitpornk: Hello.
Erik: Whazzup, whazzup, whazzup?
Where are you going?...READ MORE |
 GAMES
Midnight Club 2
MIDNIGHT CLUB 2
Anyone who plays games knows that you always need at least one really decent racing game in your collection. But it’s an overpopulated genre, and depending on your system, you have a huge choice from a bunch of titles that are all p...READ MORE |
 ERIK LAVOIE'S EX-GIRLFRIEND
And 13 Other Girls Talk About Their Private Areas
VICE: It must have been hard to resist having Erik Lavoie's babies. What did you use for birth control?...READ MORE |
 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Erik Lavoie Issue
ERIK LAVOIE’S COFFEE MUG
While everyone else is satisfied with some wise-ass, “Say no to drugs” mug, Erik goes back to the old motherfucking school with Tom Wilson’s hilarious Ziggy character. “I think his son Tom Wilson Jr. is doing it now,” Eri...READ MORE |
 STILL DIRTY
Dirt McGirt Rises From the Flames of Ol' Dirty Bastard
Every conversation about Ol' Dirty Bastard brings up the same five things: the original rah-rah rap style, the twenty-odd babies, the picking up welfare checks in a limo, the drug addictions, and the manic police pursuits. But for the last couple of years, we'...READ MORE |
 VIVA LA BOOM!
Fanny Pack Fucked Your Boyfriend
I was just talking to a fellow music writer named Jill Edmunds about our music-journalism pet peeves. Mine is the word "seminal," a cliché adjective used to describe obscure yet influential bands. Not only is it overused, it's also totally sexist! "Seminal" li...READ MORE |
 MAD SPITTING
Dizzee Rascal Sets the Fires
Unlike Erik Lavoie, Dizzee Rascal is the hottest young British MC of the moment and his Roll Deep Entourage RULE the miserable streets of London. Along with young dudes like Nasty Crew, they're transforming UK garage into something ten times rawer than all tha...READ MORE |
 SPITTING MAD
Nasty Crew Set the Pace at 600MPH
Last month, while Erik Lavoie was wrestling with girls because he thought they had his coke bag, we were at the 99-percent-black Cosa Nostra garage rave at Hackney Ocean, London, and holy shit can that crowd hang. All pristine Air Force Ones, starched Evisus, ...READ MORE |
 SOMETHING LIKE AN ANOMOANON
Is Something Like Will Oldham
The last decade brought a lot of embarrassing Bonnie Prince Pretenders out of the woodwork, but the only warbler who matches Will Oldham note for note is, of course, his older brother Ned. And Ned's got a band called the Anomoanon, who look and sound like smar...READ MORE |
 THE LAUNCH OF VICE AUSTRALIA
Starring Erik Lavoie, A.R.E. Weapons, and Ryan McGinley
Hello Australia,
I'm an American. I write a column for this magazine. I have been asked by someone named Erik Lavoie to write about Australia for this issue. Who is Erik Lavoie? Maybe it is your Prime Minister. Do you have Prime Ministers? I think you...READ MORE |
 WE HAVE PUT OUT THIS SHITTY MAGAZINE 90 TIMES
Here's the Other 89
Back in 1994, the Quebec government was paying these weird old Haitians to promote "ethnic culture" by putting out a magazine. The only stipulation was that the recipients had to be on welfare. We wanted the job, so we all got on welfare by filling out the for...READ MORE |
 LOST IN SPACE
M83 Was Discovered in 1751
When we first heard the incredible new album by this French duo called M83, we were all sat in the office in London and people started saying stuff like: "Wow it's like an ethereal electronic version of My Bloody Valentine" and "It's like the album Air should ...READ MORE |
 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Erik Lavoie Issue
PortaJohnny: The Best of Angry Youth Comix, Liverpool Fantasy, Not for Rent, No Title Here, Overbite, Art & Beauty Magazine, Cursiv, Shrimpy and Paul, Essay Die One...READ MORE |
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