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Cover: Slayer fan by Terry Richardson
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 HOLY CHALICE!
How I Got My First Pimp cupI don't normally hang out with celebrities after the show (their choice, not mine), but it happens once in a while. Recently, my childhood friend Tommy was in town with his father, who is also named Tommy and looks exactly like his son. There was a knock at the door. Someone said our musical guest t...
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  TIDBITS
A monthly look at things we love - v12n3TATTOO PROTECTOR
I have no idea if the sun damages your tattoos or not. The important thing is, people who get tattoos are usually vain, and vain people will do anything to preserve everything about themselves, so this thing is going to fly off the shelves no matter how well it works. (T...
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 DEAD MUSICIANS
Corpses Are More ProductiveIt is typical of music fans' immaturity and blind self-absorption that they mourn the deaths of their idols. Witness the annual candlelight vigils to mark the passing of self-loathing pasty-faces John Lennon and Kurt Cobain. Worse, note the stubbornly cretinous denial of Elvis and Tupac's deaths by ...
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 DEAR DIARY
Entry: 19921992
Dear Diary,
So now everyone hates me and I'm BFF with Marcie and Marissa. Marissa was ranking Sheryl out and then Sheryl called here and MY MOM ranked her out! So now I'm kinda scared to go to school. Marcie invited me to her beach party and I'll probably wear my crushed velvet...
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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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 DOS & DON'TS
The biggest difference between New York and Montreal is basically the quality of late-night snacks. New Yorkers are so high on Puerto Rican coke they don't want to buy any drunk food. That means New York Jews have no incentive to up their bagel standards from some idiotic big bun with an asshole in ...
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 BOOZE MONDAY
And Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday...I used to drink far too much.
I think it all happened because I was thrust into a position that I never dreamed of being thrust into in my life. I never dreamed of being a singer. It never crossed my mind. I always wanted to play guitar.
Because Ian Curtis died, I was put into his ...
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 LET THE SUNSHINE IN
The Best Band in the WorldIn my new film, these characters are children who are dispossessed and abandoned who have been adopted by a character named Mama Sunshine. The highest virtue, the highest level of motherhood, is to take in all sorts of unwanted children. Nothing could be more beautiful than that. Then she teaches th...
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 GROSS JAR
If there were ever any concerns about God's feelings toward the Gross Jar and its mix-n-match approach to his wonderverse, they were allayed this morning when He delivered unto the office toilet a ringing endorsement in the form of a floating black rat. Anybody who would dispute the validity of this...
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 SAY WHAAAT?
Deaf Raves Tear Rap a New EarholeAurally frustrated, some deaf hip-hop DJs in East London have started setting up their own parties. The deaf kids went mad for it, and soon deaf raves were drawing hundreds of people from all over the country. ...
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 LITERARY
Prison Stories, Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency, EpilepticPrison Stories
Seth Ferranti
Gorilla Convict Publications
Seth is our man inside the Federal prison system, serving over 20 years for charges of LSD distribution, and also for doing what any sensible man would do when he was first busted: going on the lam. Thing is, they fo...
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 CRUNK WHAT?
Eightball Don't Give a FuckWe always had our own scene down here Memphis. Our music can be like me and MJG, where it's soul, like that modern-day Al Green shit. Or you got a group like Triple 6 Mafia, where it's some get buck shit.
"Get buck" is just another term for what everybody's now calling "crunk." We said "get...
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 OUT THERE
Cassette culture was a cornerstone of the indie and punk rock undergrounds of the 80s. First you made tapes of albums that you owned for your friends who didn't have them. Then, at some golden point of inspiration in the course of cultural evolution, someone invented the mix tape. Whoever that wonde...
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 MOGADISHU MASSIVE
Grime is No. 1 in HellThe third world's taste in music sucks dick. They still love Michael Jackson. In fact, the most far-out they'll go is Janet Jackson. Maybe they're too focused on not starving or getting hacked up by a rival ethnic sect's machete to pay attention to the Top 40, but helllloooo? Can we not at least che...
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 LONG-DISTANCE WINNER
Surviving the 70sI'm 56 now, but music still has the same effect on me as when I was 15. Every so often, I'll hear a couple of songs that will just kill me and make me go instantly to my desk to write, and then straight to the piano to compose. That feeling is something that's never gone away and I feel really bless...
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 SKINEMA
I saw the gym Nazi again today. I smiled and waved hello as he jogged on the treadmill. ...
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 UP ABOVE IT
Trent Reznor Sees the LightI feel completely reenergized lately. That's partly aided by finding out that my best friend and manager of 15 years had taken all my money. That sucked. But I also got sober, and the world just kind of shifted on its axis. The end result was: "Get off your lazy fucking ass and do something. Instead...
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 LITTLE BASTARD
Dio Vs. OzzyI've had a long and checkered musical career, singing in great rock bands like Rainbow and Dio, but I have to say my favourite experience came from the time I replaced Ozzy Osbourne as singer of Black Sabbath.
Personally, I feel that Black Sabbath had shot its bolt by the time I joined. The...
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 MOSH OR DIE
Who's the Best Thrash Mascot?When he's not bawling about regret in $40,000 a month therapy sessions like in Some Kind Of Monster, Lars Ulrich likes nothing better than to bore people about how Iron Maiden and the New Wave of British Metal inspired the start of the thrash/speed metal revolution, changing music forever. The annoy...
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 SQUAWK!
Hatebeak Lets the Animals Tell ItHumans beings have said enough. Human beings have made enough music. It's time to let the animals have a voice. They probably want to tell us all kinds of shit.
Hatebeak lay down a grinding death-metal churn while their wise beast vocalizes over the top. It's intense–you'd swear that you ca...
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 GRRR!
Caninus Let the Animals Tell ItHumans beings have said enough. Human beings have made enough music. It's time to let the animals have a voice. They probably want to tell us all kinds of shit.
Caninus lay down a grinding death metal churn while their wise beasts vocalize over the top. It's intense–you'd swear that you can...
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 FREE MUSIC
Jamming Out in JailHere in the belly of the beast, life is either totally chaotic or so monotonous that you can feel each second slip by. To find some peace and pass the time, some guys get into arts and crafts, others play basketball or lift weights and still others spend their time in the prison law library, trying ...
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 BLEEDING EARS
Stop Using Music as a Weapon!It's clearly cool to rock out. Sometimes I like to listen to music naked in my room. I also like to listen to music with my friends. And I found out that they do both of these things in the army all the time! Except they call it "torture lite" and "psyops."
Sometimes I go on a "song jag" wh...
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 THE CORPORATIZATION OF DRUM CIRCLES
Trouble in DouchebagvilleA group of top executives sits on stage in a conference hall full of hundreds of their employees. Instead of running through the first-quarter sales spreadsheets, though, these high flyers are leading a different type of session: a tribal drum circle! The rhythms build and soon everyone is drumming ...
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 TIM YO IS DEAD!
But His Magazine Keeps Changing Our LivesHow great is MRR? I grew up reading it in the 80s and I can see a lot of it in this magazine. Remember when Mykel Board said, "Rape is just physical assault, nothing more." Of course he was wrong, but who else was blowing people's minds with controversial ideas like that, in PC punk rock Berkeley no...
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 FREE BRAIN
Byron Coley Loves Records A LotI've had a lot of rare records pass through my hands since I bought my first LP in '63, but usually I keep the really expensive ones moving.
I do get a certain amount of pleasure from holding something super rare, but I've never been well heeled enough to countenance keeping many of them. I...
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 FUCKIN' UP
Freaking Out Behind the BoardI am Sonic Youth's sound guy. That means I do a bunch of engineering at their studio during recordings and I go on tour with them, working the soundboard and making sure everything is perfect.
The day-in, day-out good times of being a sound engineer touring with a rock band are pretty much ...
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 PRE-MUSLIMS
Donsos are the Black Sheep of MaliI lived in Mali for a while. One night as we sat down to eat in our local restaurant Bar Restaurant in Bougouni, a drunk old donso mimed shooting me with a pistol. I could tell he was a hunter because of his mudcloth uniform and the fetishes dangling from his collar, not to mention the enormous rifl...
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 PSYCH BRAIN
The Guy From Endless Boogie is Far OutI've been obsessed with collecting rare, "out there," and psychedelic records ever since I was a kid in Kentucky mowing lawns. The only records I could afford to buy were the cut-outs that were on the blue shelves of K-mart. They were 3-for-a-dollar and they were all these 60s psychedelic bands, lik...
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 YOU'RE NOT PUNK
And I'm Telling EveryoneI've got no allegiance whatsoever to punk as a form of music. Never really did. Punk as I knew it has a political purpose. What is classified as 'punk' music these days is absolutely empty and gutless.
I genuinely believe that if it hadn't been for Crass and the movement which grew out of i...
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 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
Naturally I'm over the moon because Autechre are back and the good news is that their latest, eighth album for Warp, Untilted, is actually fun to listen to. Their last one, that hefty mechanical beast Draft 7.30, was impressive but hard to connect with on, like, an emotional level and now sits in my...
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 GRIMEWATCH
Ok so here's the drama, bitch. Lethal B has been banned from crap nightclubs everywhere AGAIN thanks to his new single "No!"....
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 HOLA! QUE PASO?
In 1978, my older brother Jeff and I started our band Redd Kross. I was 11 and he was 14. Our first public performance was at an eighth-grade graduation party, opening for Black Flag–and we got them the gig! We had met Black Flag only a few months earlier at probably one of their first shows ever. I...
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 THE CURRENCY OF POP
When Did Music Get So Shit?So the new i-pod can store 10,000 songs. Does anybody really have 10,000 favourite songs? Personally, it would be easier to find 10,000 songs that I hate than 1,000 that are actually worth storing on a portable music player.
Music doesn't have the same currency as it once did. Since record ...
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 BEER AND BONGS
The Cosmic Psychos Do Us ProudAustralia's 'beer for breakfast' attitude HAS BEEN responsible for producing some of the most legendary bands ever. Groups like AC/DC, The Saints, Radio Birdman, Beasts Of Bourbon and The Lime Spiders set new benchmarks for those about to rock everywhere. A band that typified the philosophy better t...
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 DOOMS DAY DISCO
Life without music would be as desirable as having eternal life. In both cases existence would be kind of pointless, right? One thing's for sure, I wouldn't want to live without my copy of Vitalic's Ok Cowboy (Citizen/PIAS). It's EASILY this month's best release. Every time Vitalic releases a new tr...
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 SLAYER RULES
The Slayer Rules project started last year, in June 2004, when Slayer played at the Download Festival (at Donington, it used to be called Monsters of Rock). They didn't tour the UK till later in October, so we followed them for a couple of months. During the tour we took pictures of their fans, and ...
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