 BADA BING!
The Ten-Minute Salvation That Was The Suburban Sex Industry
During the real estate boom of the early 90s, everywhere north of Toronto experienced a massive building expansion. Thousands of new, single detached, two-story homes were built in massive subdivisions along with dozens of industrial parks and strip mal...READ MORE |
  BEATS + RHYMES
I think I've figured out what the worst thing about rap music is: the pussies. You know those kids who just started getting into rap music last winter and are all "Dr. Octagon!" all day but have never heard of Schooly D? They wear those gay-ass raver fat pants...READ MORE |
 DEATH TO FALSE METAL!
Hard Rock is Back...Again
I know false metal when I hear it. Don't you? It's hard to put your finger on or define, but it's impossible to miss. Limp Bizkit is false metal. Most of the train wreck that is the annual OzzFest is, regrettably, false metal (although Ozzy himself and the per...READ MORE |
 VICE COMICS
By Kaz, Smell of Steve, James Kochalka, Dave and Gavin, Jeff Roysdon
MR. PANTY FOG, BOUGLE GLUCE, THERE IS NO ESCAPE, FANCY FROGLIN, PIP AND NORTON, CAMPFIRE STORIES...READ MORE |
 I LOVE MONDAYS!
Garfield Creator Sets the Record Straight
"On Monday I wished it was Tuesday night/So I could wish for the weekend to come."
-Billy Bragg
"Wishing the Days Away"
Last year we featured a chart that broke down office quotes about the days of the week. People who hate their shitty jobs...READ MORE |
 MADE IN JAPAN
From Video to Genocide
Any alarmist parent, religious leader, or pundit in America who thinks Quake and Marilyn Manson caused Columbine needs to move to Tokyo and spend some time with a few of the Japanese teens known as "hikikomori."
Translated literally as "those w...READ MORE |
 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
Alain Mongeau, Touch, Perlon, Force Inc., Schematic, Stephen Beaupre, Deadbeat, Jetone, Akufen, Kid 606, Rotterdam Gabbercore, Anti-Pop Consortium, The User, Thomas Brinkmann, Felix Kubin, Lionel Richie, Fennesz, Hakan Lidbo,Twerk, Sutekh , Safety Scissors, S...READ MORE |
 SEARCHING FOR MARLEY MARL
The Impossible Rap Interview
I've heard legends about producer/dj Marley Marl for about as long as I can remember. People say he was the first person to ever sample a record, and credit him with being the first in hip hop to ever do a posse cut. He gave rap music a stable home in t...READ MORE |
 THE INVISIBLE BALLER
Rapper and Producer Lil' Troy Doesn't Rap or Produce
The story behind every Southern hip hop label CEO is like a movie. (That's probably why each and every one of them has a movie coming out.) Houston's Lil' Troy is no exception. In 1989 he put out the first record by the South's most legendary emcee: Sca...READ MORE |
 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The War Issue
AKHBAR-E-JEHAN
Whenever I get sick of the American media’s blind patriotism, I turn to Asia. Sometimes the Asia Times (atimes.com) and other times Newsline (Pakistan’s hard journalism...READ MORE |
 THE SALVATION ARMIES
Imitation of Imitation of Christ are Proof the Imitation of Christ Revolution Is Under Way
More than just a pile of frantic prose written by Thomas à Kempis in the 15th Century to get over how shitty war is, Imitation of Christ (or as the fashionistas say IOC) is a fashion design team headed by Matt Damhave and Tara Subkoff (actor from The Ce...READ MORE |
 THE VICE GUIDE TO ELECTROCLASH
Or 15 Electro-ish Bands We Haven't Covered Yet
The problem with only covering four or five bands a month is that, when there's an explosion of great bands - a movement even - you have to wait months to fit them all in. We could do our new favorites like, say, Stereo Total and Crossover this month an...READ MORE |
 SKINEMA
By Chris Nieratko
SILVIA EXPOSED
Most people have friends that try to protect them when they’re drunk from the evils of this world such as fights, police and ugly people. My friends, though, are all assholes. They will try with all their power to get me knocked out,...READ MORE |
 WHO IS NIKKI LEE?
The Photographer You Can't See
Nikki Lee is a lot of people. She's an 85-year-old woman. She's trailer trash in Ohio. She's a pretty good skateboarder. She's a stripper. She's a fag hag. She's a punk. She's a Japanese tourist. She's a yuppie, a lesbian, a Japanese trust fund kid in N...READ MORE |
 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The War Issue
Lenny Bruce used to carry his morphine kit in a small black case he called his "medicine bag." He liked the ritual involved with opening it up and removing each part from its respective holder. Now that the apocalypse is upon us, we too have to resort to survi...READ MORE |
 GAMES
Silent Hill 2, Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis & Journey
SILENT HILL 2
Since Hollywood stopped making real horror movies in lieu of the more portable teen slasher ick, connoisseurs of the genre have been relegated to rewatch the classics on DVD or go out and discover completely new ways to get the creeps...READ MORE |
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