Wired Magazine can write a 25 page prayer to the CEO of Google but if they interviewed Haiko The Hentai Master they'd learn a lot more about the ins and outs of the internet than they'd ever dreamed.Comments/Enlarge |
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Remember all those soul-deadening jobs where they’d make you wear some stained-up secondhand workshirt that came down to your knees and how hard you’d try to cool up the periphery in case you ran into anybody you knew? I wonder if that’s why punk and goth girls always cram so much shit on their necks and arms.Comments/Enlarge |
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Cover: Marlene McCarty, Group 3 (Tanjung Putting, Borneo. 1971), 2007, ballpoint pen
and graphite on paper, 107.5 x 110 inches. Photo: Douglas Thompson.
VICE MAIL Letters - The Homo Neanderthalensis Issue Ocean Commotion, Ocean Shmocean, Unique Views and Opinions, Just Deserters, Egoist Seeks Likeminded People, Perfect Vice Emploee Material, I Have a Tremendous Amount of Time on My Hands, Vladimir Snoozin', (I Want To) Fuck You, Schoolgirls...READ MORE
SHEPPARD'S VIDEO-GAME PIE By Stephen Lea Sheppard NiGHTS: JOURNEY OF DREAMS
I had forgotten how much I enjoyed the original NiGHTS Into Dreams on the Saturn until I played this, which is saying something because I thought I remembered...READ MORE
WOOOOO TANG Jason Crombie Is Stupid as a Fox Besides, oh, I don't know, Vice, Wooooo is the coolest magazine out now. Or maybe Wooooo is a zine so we don't even have to worry about it being cooler than us until it gets bigger. Anyway, it's free and the new issue has a photo of Jerry Hsu wit...READ MORE
WADE IN THE WATER Marlene McCarty's Drawings of Baptism and Murder Let's keep this simple. Marlene McCarty is one of our favorite artists and has been for years. She has a new show running from April 5 until May 3 at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York City. We asked Marlene about this new work, and this is what she told us: READ MORE
SKINEMA By Chris Nieratko DARK MEAT 2
I was just in LA for a week to host a comedy roast for Adidas that failed miserably. For those of you who think my writing isn’t funny, just imagine how disappointing I am in...READ MORE
HORSE FIGHTS Let's Take a Look at What Passes for Entertainment in the Philippines We feel like we need to say something about why we're publishing these photographs. There are a couple of reasons and to be honest, one of them is "Holy shit, what's happening in these just looks insane and amazing and disgustingly fascinating." But then again...READ MORE
TAXI DRIVERS ARE WANKERS This is a story by Aidan Moffat, the big lovable Scottish perv formerly of Arab Strap. He has a new album coming out of spoken-word pieces where he whispers filthy, sometimes funny stories of love in your ear over moody background music. If you listen to it on...READ MORE
SALVATION ON TAP Speaking in Tongues in Peckham Peckham in South London is full of strange little churches. They're in railway arches, industrial estates, old office blocks and boarded up shops. Peckham has the largest African community in the UK and most of these churches serve them. The churches serve a n...READ MORE
VICE PRESENTS THE PEOPLE'S LISTS 7 People Who Were Buried Alive... And Lived! SISTER DELPHINE DE ST. PAUL
(buried 1876, US)
Minnie Keusch was born in Detroit in 1859. At 17 she contracted typhoid fever...READ MORE
ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE For the second month in a row we're over in New York, in a manner of speaking, talking to a couple of guys who've made an incredible record that perhaps a few hundred people might think about buying. We're talking about the Galaxy Toobin' Gang, of course! Slig...READ MORE
CRAZY GLU Jessica Gysel Knows You're Gay You know that gay people recruit, right? Yeah, well, they do, and Girls Like Us Lesbian Quarterly is the perfect brochure for luring cool young women over to the dark side. It is a way classy magazine full of interviews with iconic lesbians and photos o...READ MORE
FANTASTICAL PORTRAITURE Female Prisoners in Argentina Escape Through the Magical Magic of COLLAGE Over the last four years, we, the photographers of Grupo Mirada Photo of Córdoba, Argentina, have given a photo workshop in the province's highest-security women's prison. In our experience as photographers, we have never felt such intensity in the value of a ...READ MORE
AMYNAL NITRITE A "Liquid Incense" Taste Test Our friend-let's call him P-loves poppers. P is a 37-year-old radio and voiceover actor, a volunteer at a suicide helpline, and a poppers enthusiast. Originally the term "poppers" referred to tiny glass bulbs of amyl nitrite that old people would pop under the...READ MORE
BELOVED MONSTER The Strange Odyssey of Alfred Chester On a sweltering day in August 1971, Jerusalem police found a partly decomposed-and weirdly hairless-corpse in a two-story suburban house near the YMCA. The floors were covered with boxes, their contents exploded around the rooms amid a startling profusion of p...READ MORE
BRANCHES AND ROOTS AND... PINECONES Tall Firs Tell Us What They Like Tall Firs are a Brooklyn band that has really calming vibes but also a low-level heaviness sort of thing going on. If I were a really lazy writer who relied on clichés, I would say that Tall Firs' music has a "sense of hushed intensity." I guess I just kind of...READ MORE
RECORDS Music Reviews - The Homo Neanderthalensis Issue EXCEPTER
Debt Dept.
Jesus, they should have called this one Pantshitter. Maybe it's got something to do with my listening to the album after driving all night through rural Pennsylvania...READ MORE
DO IT! UK urban music is in the best state it's been in for a decade. Ten-year-old girls are throwing their Bratz dolls out the window and breakdancing in their wheelie shoes when a bassline tune comes on daytime radio....READ MORE
LITERARY Book Reviews - The Homo Neanderthalsos Issue Fight (Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Ass-Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked For Asking)...READ MORE
CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN The Ruby Suns Like It Au Naturel Ryan McPhun is an American living in New Zealand. He moved there five years ago and as you can imagine, his accent is a bit strange. Along with native kiwis Amee Robinson and Imogen Taylor, Ryan is in a band called the Ruby Suns. They've just released their se...READ MORE
SHITGAZERS UNITED Introducing... Psychedelic Horseshit! Psychedelic Horseshit coined the turn "shitgaze", formed on a whim at a party and made up their name on the spot because it was the first thing that sprang to mind. From Columbus, Ohio, theirs is an unrefined, unpredictable and chaotic mess of sound which leap...READ MORE
NO LOVE LOST Eking Out the Seamiest Boltholes Visiting a brothel in Slough was never high on my list of things to do, but having looked at these shots by the photojournalist Michael Grieve, I've categorically ruled it out.
Over the last six years, Newcastle native Grieve has lurked in some of the...READ MORE
IT'S COMPLICATED Queen of Swords Slice it Nice Liam Sparkes has played in more London DIY bands than you can shake a whole bushel of fanzines about Huggy Bear at. From Harry Stab and Human Bomb to Drumize with Eye from Boredoms, he's done stuff in them. He's probably best known as the stupid...READ MORE
LOCKED OFF Dexplicit is Too Popular People still try to make out that grime is based in three highrise blocks in Bow, when in reality other parts of London, particularly north, are home to a lot of the more productive MCs such as Chipmunk, Skepta, JME, Scorcher etc. The same goes for bassline. J...READ MORE
SOMERSET NIGHTS Down and Out in Weston-super-Mare Den Elliott might never have ended up taking photos had it not been for a previous life as a conservationist. You should hear the way Den talks about his time spent wandering the windswept crags and leafy forests. It's impossible to imagine how anyone...READ MORE
GIANT HAYSTACKS Let's Wrestle Have a Silly Name If your band has a stupid name, you need to be able to justify it. So many bands just don't give a shit anymore. There's nothing worse than a pointless group with a wacky moniker who, when asked about the origins of their zany handle, just shrug and mumble som...READ MORE
DOCUMENTED MIND- WANDERING The Wonderful World of Tickley Feather Tickley Feather is the nom de plume of a 29-year-old woman named Annie Sachs. She lives with her four-year-old son, Aiden, out in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When she has some time off from doing motherly stuff, she writes and sings these bewitchin...READ MORE
MOLDOVA Mental Asylums and Psychedelic Gravestones At the end of 2007, I went to Moldova to take pictures for a couple of charities. We drove around and visited orphanages and some very impoverished families. It was cold, very depressing and a little scary at times. Considered the runt of Europe, Moldova doesn...READ MORE
UNDER THE FUZZ Sex Vid are Hard to Find The internet has made everything too easy. Remember when you used to have to send a cheque off to some PO Box just to get hold of a zine and in the back of it you'd see a list of records by a bunch of bands you knew nothing about? You'd have to sort of guess w...READ MORE
WHY HEART IRAQ? Bahaa Mayah Wants Tourists, Not Terrorists Hey! We were just partying down in Cartagena, Colombia, and guess who we bumped into? Bahaa Mayah. You don't know Bahaa? He's the Iraqi Minister of Tourism. Yep, Iraq has a Ministry of Tourism. A country in which a good 50,000 people were blown up...READ MORE
RAW CHINA "These death metal maestros make the four horsemen of the apocalypse sound like My Little Pony and Slayer sound like a Ben Gibbard-fronted Abba cover band. If you haven't heard Swedish death metal, you haven't heard death metal. If you haven't heard Gothenburg...READ MORE
FINALLY The Breakthrough Institute Wrests Environmentalism Away from the Dumbs I'm generally into the idea of "standing up for nature" and "not turning the planet into an uninhabitable trashball," but the thing that's always kept me at arm's length from environmentalism is how completely selfish the better part of its proponents...READ MORE
FUCK CONFUCIUS Cui Jian Has the Biggest Balls Under the Red Flag Most countries outside the English-speaking world have some sort of "father of rock" figure. Cui Jian is China's, but unlike the Johnny Hallydays and Tarkans of elsewhere, he's not just another shlubby Elvis clone or closeted Europop singer. His songs served a...READ MORE
