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VICE MAIL Letters - The News From All Over Issue A Burning Need to Know, Why Us?, Slanguage Ban Going Just Fine, Oh Shit, Wait a Second..., Progress, Pile of Puke...READ MORE
ANTI-SOCIALS Last year I travelled up and down Britain for six months to meet and take photographs of people with Anti-Social Behaviour Orders. In case you didn't know, an ASBO is something invented by the Labour government to give out to people who are seen as a menace to...READ MORE
GENIUS CONVENTION Fun in the Sun With the War on Terror's Good Guy The emblem for the FBI's Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate features a screaming bald eagle soaring somewhere in the stratosphere, high above the earth where there probably, technically, isn't much air to soar on. In the background, draped across space, i...READ MORE
SKINEMA By Chris Nieratko BARELY LEGAL CORRUPTED #8
There’s a chance that as I type this my wife might be pregnant. Despite what I may have told you before about being eager to have a child, I’m considering asking her to get an...READ MORE
OUR HERO Robert Fisk Is a Journalistic God Best-selling author and British journalist Robert Fisk has lived in Beirut for the past three decades. He is the Middle East correspondent for The Independent and holds more British and international journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. He h...READ MORE
STUFF LIKE THAT She Was Born to Be My Unicorn Vice's own Amy Kellner (aka Teenageunicorn.com) curated an amazing group show last month at Smith-Stewart Gallery in New York. She's too modest to write this intro herself, so before she goes ahead and tells you...READ MORE
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These wheat biscuits were made in Mumbai. Guess which coast of India Mumbai is on. That's right. West Si-i-i-i-y-eeeed represent!
Thanks to Nana, Kyoto, Japan...READ MORE
WE GOT OUT North Korean Refugees Tell Us About the Homeland I met these three people in a nine-story Christian church for North Korean refugees in Seoul. I don't know the church's name; the reverend told me just to call it Seoul Church. It looked exactly like a Christian church in Texas or anywhere in the heartland. Th...READ MORE
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IT HAPPENED Crackheads Stole the Door Off My Roof We moved into a house a few blocks from the Marcy projects at the end of last summer. The day we moved in, one of our neighbors asked me how much I'd paid to rent our moving van. I told her, and she said, "I've got to get me and my kid the fuck out of here. We...READ MORE
GAMES Games Reviews - The News From All Over Issue SHADOWRUN
If you can get past the highly Smashing-Pumpkins-video-esque box art enough to get this into your console and join a live game, you will find a really strange world of...READ MORE
DRUM DREAM I Was a Drum Leader for Boadrum77 On 7/7/07, the Boredoms put on a crazy, already-legendary concert under the Brooklyn Bridge with 77 drummers spiraling out from a humongous guitar gong that Boredoms leader Yamataka Eye struck with a giant trident scepter. It was, according to all who attended...READ MORE
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RECORDS Music Reviews - The News From All Over Issue T.I.
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MYCOLOGY 101 The Vice Guide to Really Fascinating American Mushrooms CHANTERELLES
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WANKFEST OVERLOAD Hot Licks With Marnie Stern Guitar solos are ruling. No matter how much some old guy in the pub dribbling into his bitter at closing time goes on about how important three-chords and '76 and blah and blah and blah, solos are still a massively important part of guitar rock. That's why peo...READ MORE
ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE We first encountered Teenage Bad Girl in May when we went to Dijon for a party Vitalic had organised for the ravers of his hometown. The event was called Carte Blanche and local hero Vitalic—Pascal Arbez—could book whoever he wanted, within reason, to perform ...READ MORE
FRAT ATTACK Vampire Weekend Graduate to Real Band Status It has always blown my mind how the US college basketball teams manage to get crowds of squillions of people and have like their own trading cards and stuff. My college football team found it hard getting the coach to turn up to matches. But I guess it's partl...READ MORE
The British weather has been bad all summer so the first sunny day we got I got drunk with some friends and we went streaking in the centre...READ MORE
FETCH THE PLIERS Iron Lung Will Dissect You Iron Lung are two moody, bearded guys from Seattle who play a kind of music called "power violence". Pioneered in the early 90s, this genre of punk was a kick in the ass for the joke of what hardcore had become thanks to snowboarding, metalcore bands who sang ...READ MORE
ONE RAPE, PLEASE (to go) I Paid a Male Whore to Rape Me Because I Wanted To I blame my recurring rape fantasy on the fact that I'm a feminist. I've never made any bones about getting boned in exactly the fashion that I want. But as a girl, my equipment can be trickier to manage, therefore I need to be a boss in the bedroom to ensure I...READ MORE
STORMY WEATHER Sian Alice Group Make it Rain Do you remember those kids at primary school who used to be scared of clouds?
You'd be mucking about in the playground and then all of a sudden somebody would start wailing and pointing at the sky because a cloud looked like a giant spider or...READ MORE
BARNSLEY CALLING We're Going to Have a Bin Party Tonight. Alright! In a spasm of true British ingenuity, teenage gangs in Barnsley have been stealing, then setting fire to plastic wheelie bins. THEN they inhale the thick black poisonous fumes, thus having a hobby that ticks both boxes of drug-taking and vandalism...READ MORE
DO IT! For this issue, we spent three weeks living in the back of a Ford Nova parked behind a skip in a Derby council estate in an attempt to fully infiltrate the niche/bassline house/bassline garage scene. During the day, we grafted away in a tyre factory, and at ni...READ MORE
THE BIRTH OF TRANCE-HOP B.O.B. Makes Ecstacy Music for Strippers & Thugs I remember reading a Lil Jon interview a few years ago where he was talking about how ecstasy was seeping into the Dirty South hip-hop scene, mainly through strip clubs. What happened was club owners would give girls pills to keep them dancing all night. Then,...READ MORE
IL DUCE BAGS Predappio is a Fascist Paradise Ever heard of a place called Predappio? Wow, it's weird. We came across it by accident when travelling through central Italy on holiday last month. It's a small, backward, rural village that really isn't that different from any other small, backward, rural vil...READ MORE
AIN'T NO FUN If Lovvers Can't Have None What happened? Last summer it felt like we were on the verge of something great. Bands were being exciting and original and kids were putting on parties in squats. Every weekend was like a holiday you wanted to go on forever. A whole year later and we're stuck...READ MORE
THIS AIN'T DAD ROCK Blues Control Control the Blues Blues Control are a two-piece New York entity who, like their music, are slowly and steadily building steam, creating mind-bending music on their own terms. Formed in January 2006 as a tongue-in-cheek side project to Watersports (an improvisational new age ban...READ MORE
AUSSIE BATTLERS Star Wars Not Dead It's a little known fact but the Australian branch of the Star Wars costume fan organisation is a steadily growing force. They call themselves the 501st Legion or, more affectionately, 'Vader's Fist'...READ MORE
ADAPTABLE BAND Kill Boogie Have Tried Everything Four years ago Kill Boogie were called Solar Crete. Back then the three-piece lived in Brisbane, in a house where Kylie Minogue filmed part of The Delinquents. When their original bassist (a trained sax player) left, awesome guitarist Thomas Madden was recruit...READ MORE
DOOMSDAY METAL Eddie's Dead The connection between extreme metal and Eddie Meduza, the lewd god of homemade, Swedish slapstick music, is muddy at best. Still, a lot of metalheads secretly worship him, and there are devoted fans in bands like Hypocrisy and Necrophobic. Maybe it's because ...READ MORE
