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VICE MAIL Letters - The Turning Gay Issue From Us to You, Ask Someone Who Cares Dept., Exhibit A, Iraq Speaks, the Rest of the World, South Wales Housewife Hates You, Are Poor People Cool?...READ MORE
WHO'S THAT ASS? Please Meet Our Lovely Cover Girls Lily and Rebecca were shot by Ryan McGinley on one of the cross-country, all-nude photo-making trips he goes on every summer. Now you’ve seen their asses adorned with foxtails, but what’s inside their brains? Let’s find out! We know you care...READ MORE
PINUPS Fuck Eyes - Bulletin Boards Are Windows to the Soul What’s better than going over to someone’s house and looking at their stuff? Nothing. People’s stuff rules. And stuff that people put up on their bulletin boards, or “inspiration areas” if you will, super-extra-rules. We picked four of our favorite artist type...READ MORE
UH...SO...WHAT DO YOU THINK? Boner Berries & Set Phasers to "Dumb" There's been a big stink lately about the European Union banning the sale of these tiny red things called goji berries. The manufacturers claim they're like the fruit version of Viagra....READ MORE
SWELL O'DELLS Lambsbread Is My Sister I’ve known my little sister Kathy her whole life, and as far I can remember she never expressed any interest in playing music or being in a band. Then suddenly she’s all, “I’m in a noise band called Lambsbread and I’m dropping out of college to tour! We play a...READ MORE
TIDBITS A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Turning Gay Issue JIHAD TRANSFORMERS
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SKINEMA By Chris Nieratko SPERM SPONGES VOL. I
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GLOSSIN' Lil Mama on Lip Care Minus the bamboo earrings, Lil Mama is the around-the-way girl LL always dreamed of. This 16-year-old shorty woke up one morning, skipped class, and wrote a rap about her lip gloss. The result is a massive hit packed with references to high school lockers, L’O...READ MORE
IT HAPPENED In this new regular feature, we take a ridiculous story we've recently heard, get all the sides of it, and then take the main players back to the scene for a portrait.
Picture this: A quaint prewar walk-up on a tree-lined block in picturesque...READ MORE
GETTING GAYSTED One Homo's Guide to Borking Straight Dudes For any self-respecting ’mo there is no sweeter plum than untouched hetero bum-bum. You might think it’s a gay pipedream, but this one guy we know has landed scores of straights. We asked him to give us a detailed breakdown on how he lures them over to the fag...READ MORE
NOT FIT TO PRINT It's back! After relegating it to a lengthy hiatus, we're happy to present a new installment of Not Fit to Print. This is where we show you some of the most awful, confusing, and sad shit we've gotten in the mail recently. We've built up quite a pile since the...READ MORE
FLIPPED-OUT PRISON It's a Hard-Knock Life in Filipino Jails (Kinda) On the island of Cebu in the Philippines, there are two jails. One is a third-world nightmare hell on earth full of happy, relaxed people. The other is a thoroughly modern facility where all the inmates are hateful, twitchy, and basically traumatized....READ MORE
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RECORDS Music Reviews - The Turning Gay Issue THROBBING GRISTLE
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CRUST NEVER SLEEPS Gallhammer = Crust Punk Wank Fantasy Tokyo’s Gallhammer are three hot teenage girls who look cute and play in a band. Big whup, right? Well how about the fact that they play fucked-up crusty punky black metal and are obsessed with Celtic Frost, Hellhammer and Amebix?...READ MORE
IMAGINARY FRIENDS Introducing... Alessi We saw Alessi’s second ever gig at the end of last year. Heavenly Records had taken over a bar off Oxford Street just before Christmas and we stumbled in all drunk and were like: “Wow! She’sssh amasssshing”. It’s an obvious comparison, but she sounds a lot lik...READ MORE
DO IT! We’re not doing a whole column on grime music anymore. We’re still going to let you know the important stuff like what hair products Jammer is currently using or Logan Sama’s favourite new wrestling move, but we’re not going to dedicate a whole page to just th...READ MORE
DAWN OF A NEW APOCALYPSE Hardcore Looks to Integrity For Answers After ten years of having to suffer difficult-to-listen-to arty screamo bands made up of sensitive guys wearing lampshades on their heads, it seems like hardcore kids are looking back to the straight up power violence/metalcore bands of the early 90s for their...READ MORE
DOOMSDAY METAL Hey whitey, it's time to get out of Scandinavia! I'm here to bring you all up to speed on the Argentinian black metal scene, with all its bizarre lows and great, dark heights, from the beginning of time up until right now. Long story short, Argentina is a big ...READ MORE
SMOKED OUT Australian Tobacco Calls It Quits At any given moment, there are approximately 1.1 billion people around the world (that’s one sixth of the population) sucking back an estimated total of 6 million tonnes of tobacco a year. To put this into perspective, it takes roughly 1 kilo of tobacco to mak...READ MORE
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BEAT BOXER Anthony Mundine Turns His Hands to Rap The worst thing about being an overly cocky cunt in a fight is that you risk looking like a total booby if you can’t back it up. Fortunately Aboriginal Muslim Anthony Mundine has managed to follow up most of his self-righteous bravado with a slew of wins, to t...READ MORE
DOUBLE TROUBLE Fabulous Diamonds Fight It Out Two weeks after forming the band Fabulous Diamonds Nisa Venerosa and Jarrod Zlatic played their first show. They were 19, barely friends and could barely play their instruments. In these DIY times that’s not an unusual story but the difference between Fabulous...READ MORE
BLUES & ROOTS Buffalo Did It For The Love & The Money Buffalo were the quintessential Aussie rock band in the 70s. They busted their balls around the country for years playing school socials, RSLs and their own parties—basically anywhere they could find long haired dudes sticking their heads in the bass bins and ...READ MORE
GAMES PS3 The PS3 is here and it's all right I suppose. It's a funny shape and it's got the font from Spiderman 2 down the side.
You can tell they wanted it to look all space-age but it didn't quite...READ MORE
