 DON'T BAISE ME, KILL MEAsia Aria Argento Takes Angry Bitch Cinema A Bit Further"You must push everything to the absolute limit, or else life will be boring."
-Dario Argento, Italy's last genius
The carnally explicit Tet Offensive Being waged against boring cinema is in full dick swing. Basically a gang of guerilla hookers armed with video cameras, they sta... | |
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  BEATS + RHYMESBefore we get started, I have to repeat: CDs are lame. Please don't send them to me, it's too much work. All right.
Spoon is the sickest rapper in the world. "Anti-Christ" is fucking nuts. Pick it up right now on Mary Joy Records or we'll have to fight next time we see each other. You know ... | |
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 DREAM WEAVERThe Ominous Drawings of Min KimVICE: When did your studio burn down?
Min Kim: Last March. I had been having a lot of fire dreams right before that and they were influencing my work. I must have done hundreds of paintings and drawings and sculptures with flames in them. Then my whole block burned down. My apartment and... | |
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 NE POUR UN PETIT PAINDat Politics Keep Complicated Sound SimpleDat Politics brilliantly contravene the European Union directive which states that all music produced in France since 1995 has to be either A: irresistibly camp filtered disco, or B: sound like the classical-synth soundtrack to an epic early 80s Italian cartoon series about mediaeval intergal... | |
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 DEAR DIARYEntry: June 12, 1986June 12, 1986
It's cold tonight! And it's JUNE! I hate that. I lost student council president. They're probably going to make me secretary or something gay like that!!! UGH! Why do I bother! You know what I want. I want to get out of here. OR BETTER. I want to be kidnapped --just stolen by a... | |
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 OH-OH-EYE-OH-OHYoshimi Rocks Nature's AssYoshimi's the coolest. Besides her already legendary drum/trumpet/howling work with Japanese noise band The Boredoms and the art-rock supergroup Free Kitten, Yoshimi fronts an all-girl band called OOIOO (say it like: "Oh-oh-eye-oh-oh") that started when she brought three good-looking friends ... | |
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 LITERARY The Holy Book of Hip Hop, Lenny Bruce is Dead, CRANK #7The Holy Book of Hip Hop
Black Glove Publishing Ltd.
This is basically a thorough-ass, 300-plus page catalog of original songs that have been sampled by hip hop artists. The book is split into two sections: Soul and Jazz, and in each section, the artists are listed alphabetically. For ... | |
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 ONE FOOT IN THE GUTTER ONE FIST IN THE GOALGenre Break Records Get Paid to Get Laid"For really, what is the bedrock of all male aspiration, if it isn't cunt and money?"
-Iceberg Slim
Evolving out of the adolescent fetishizing that spawned Star Wars Breakbeats, transplanted suburban kids are lovingly etching pop culture grooves with such elitist perfection they make Q... | |
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 SKINEMAWhen I was in high school I wanted nothing more in this world than to be black. I did just about everything I could to make that dream come true. I'd talk black, wear my pants far past my ass, memorize X Clan lyrics, bad mouth white people and grab my dick when I talked, regardless of who I was talk... | |
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 SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIENDBucktown's The Cocoa Brovaz Come Through, Poppin' Lotta Gun TalkStaking claim to the home of the original gun clap, Brooklyn's sharp shooting MCs Tek & Steele aren't about to back down on this rap game. They're known for spitting rounds in underground anthems like "Super Brooklyn" and "Get Up" (from Lyricist Lounge 2), but music isn't the only thing these... | |
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 STEADY BOMBIN'On Saturday, April 21st, at the age of 29, Hector Saul Ramirez (AKA Hec) was struck and killed by the G train while bombing between stops. His wife Cristina Ramirez and friend Tami Brown wrote the following:
Hec had to write on everything. It sometimes seemed like there weren't enoug... | |
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 SOUND OF THE PIRATESThe War Between Drum and Bass and Garage is Finally OverSaturday night, February 24. A sweaty underground club in the UK heaves with an impatient crowd waiting for Kosheen, the live/vocal drum and bass act that, like every new talent, has been hailed as "the one that will save drum and bass." A quick scan of the crowd reveals precisely four black ... | |
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 THE RETURN OF NEW YORK CITYBands Like The Centuries Fight Evil And WinStreet walkers, street style, street beat, street crime - street life in general - disappeared with the streets.
New York City has been without a sound for years now, but just when we'd given up on the possibility, a New York sound again. And streets again: mental streets, sexual str... | |
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 THE ROAD TO EUPHORIAA True Story of Dealing E back in 1993There were thirty thousand tabs of Ecstasy in three clear plastic bags on the coffee table between us. I was kicking back on one of two dueling couches waiting for an answer. The fat and fidgety man across from me stared at the tassels on his loafers. The E was mine, the hesitation was all Bo... | |
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