Cover photo by Gerard Herve Polisset from his book Sthlm77 (Journal)
 VICE MAIL
Vice's managing editor gets seduced by a compiler of avant-garde music with a Tibetan thighbone trumpet, some sort of sexual control issues, and an inability jizz in the presence of a lady. All via the ancient art of letter-writing. ...
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  DICK FACE
Why Is Jack Walls the Coolest Motherfucker on Earth?Ryan McGinley talks with Robert Mapplethorpe's former boyfriend about his passage through the three principal spheres of 20th-century homosexuality (street gangs, the Navy, and the 70s West Village art scene), then makes him explain his quips. ...
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 NOODLE DOODLES
David Shrigley and a Bunch of Bands Make Fake Songs RealDavid Shrigley made little Shel Silverstein-esque scribbles of fake songs that a bunch of recent bands turned into a full album of real songs called The Worried Noodle. Also he's Scottish. ...
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 DAVID THEWLIS AND HIS HOPELESS, HILARIOUS FICTION
The Vice InterviewAn interview with the star of Naked about The Late Hector Kipling, the black, black comedy he wrote about the art world; growing up in Blackpool; and working with Mike Leigh. ...
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 LIVING, DEAD
Manila North Cemetery Houses More Warm Bodies Than Cold CorpsesBahag (that's his name) takes a trip to the sprawling Manila North Cemetery to photograph and hang out with the scores of Filipinos who live, work, and do karaoke in the tombs. ...
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 VICE FASHION - TRAMPS LIKE THEM
Springsteen Fans Are Revved Up Like a DeucePeter Sutherland crosses the Jersey Line to photograph and interview the Boss's diehard local fanbase in their natural setting, a parking lot. ...
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 LEEDS GARAGE
T2 Likes Terminator 2, StillPrancehall chats with T2, the 19-year-old record producer at the center of the northern bassline explosion. Not that they talk about his music at all. Just the Terminator. ...
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 SKINEMA
As a favor to his new porn-star friend Kimberly Kane, Chris Nieratko tries his hand at porn-box-cover publicity blurbs. ...
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 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
Piers Martin talks with Mike Simonetti of Italians Do It Better, the label single-handedly carrying interesting American dance music through the mid-00s doldrums. ...
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 MYSTERY MAN
Cass McCombs Does Not Vouch for His ActionsAn anxious nerd interviews the songman about his new album Dropping the Writ, all the weird, unexplained crap on his website, and being a Scorpio....
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 LITERARY
If You're Feeling Sinister, Of Walking in Ice , Drawings by A-Bomb SurvivorsA swooning rave over the new edition of Werner Herzog's long out of print Of Walking In Ice, and a measured response to the latest pile of dogshit 33 1/3 has left on our doorstep. ...
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 HYPED UP THE ASS
Black Kids Are Too Busy For ViceThe Black Kids are too busy being an "it band" to talk to Vice, so Vice has a long, in-depth conversation with their publicists about the rigors of touring, the state of the music industry, and the war in Iraq....
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 RECORDS
Music Reviews - v14n11We review the latest gems from these guys: Havoc, Jim Krewson, Wasted Time, the Boss, Japanther, Mike Bones, White Magic, Six Organs of Admittance, Health, and more......
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 VIDEO GAMES KILLED THE RADIO STAR
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Halo 3, Skate, Screen-Age Symphonies to God (who is a computer): Turning Game Musicians into Celebrities and Making Kids Excited in Public, Ratchet & Clank Future: ToolVice sets aside its politics to waste some surrogate Iraqis in Call of Duty 4, points out the Orange Box's overwhelming superiority to Halo 3, and finally admits that we've always wanted to fuck skateboarders. ...
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 VICE PRESENTS THE PEOPLE'S LISTS
A compendium of 15 pet catsA compendium of 15 pet cats who traveled across miles of hills and plain just to get back to the families that (generally) abandoned them. ...
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 VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED
Rolo Tomassi's Growing PainsVice interviews the five diminutive, insufferably cute Sheffield teens who make Dystopia sound like the 1910 Fruitgum Co. Their guitarist also pulls a nice dig on Walls of Jericho....
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 DO IT!
Prancehall surveys the current state of grime and talks to Sheffield dancehall producer Toddla T about the size of his penis. ...
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 FAST TIMES
Black Lips Won't Be StoppedVice Australia finally meets Atlanta's Black Lips and commiserates with their bassist about being turned back by the Canadian Border Patrol. Seriously, what's those assholes problem?...
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 CHICK MAGNETS
Gallows Go For Total DischordGallows' Australian "Taste of Chaos" tour is basically one huge, multiple-charge statutory rape case waiting to happen, but that hasn't killed their sense of humor. ...
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 WHAT A RELIEF!
Birth Glow Get BornAdelaide's preeminent lo-fi junk trio overcome their hometown's reputation for lousy music and talk to Vice about their tunes and their recent case of simultaneous barfing. ...
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 BOY TOYS
Fuck Buttons Enjoys NoiseLondon's most blabbed about new noise duo chat with us about gear, the perennial corker of including the word "Fuck" in your name, and their mutual unwillingness to "deny the fabrics of their evolutions in taste."...
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