 BARFING WITH A BONER
The New Pornography Leaves Critics SickenedPornography gets you hard. The New Pornography gets you hard and makes you want to simultaneously vomit and beat someone to a pulp. In addition to stimulating all the usual pleasure centers, it induces fear, panic, dread, and rage, pulling out every trick in the book to provoke a physical reaction....
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  BEATS AND RHYMES
If you still haven't picked up Devin The Dude's new album, Just Tryin' Ta Live (Rap-A-Lot), then I don't know how you can call yourself a fan of rap music. No excuses, this is must-have shit.
You will also need Clipse's Lord Willin' (Star Trak)....
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 CALLING ALL BIRDS
The Streets Re-Create the DancefloorMike Skinner (AKA The Streets) hails from London, the global capital of beer and pirate radio. He plays straight-up cockney garage–rad-ass stuff to which you can drink beer, dance, rip up pubs, or get arrested for dealing. Since beer is so essential to the British lifestyle and people always get in ...
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 DEAR DIARY
Entry: Spring 1994Spring 1994
I saw Ben and Ryan last night. I think I like Ben better but I'm not sure how he feels about me. Ryan and I were flirting a lot more. Then I had a dream about Christian. I don't know what to do. This morning at 8 o'clock a blue car pulled up to my house and started honking re...
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 CALLING ALL BITCHES
Streets Are All About DestructionStreets hail from Vancouver, the global capital of heroin and acid. They play straight-up skate punk–rad-ass stuff to which you can drink beer, pogo, rip up ramps, or get arrested for trespassing. Since beer is so essential to their lifestyle and people always get in fights when they're stupid-drunk...
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 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
Fischerspooner, Chicks On Speed, The User, Ersatz, DMX Krew, Goudron, Little Computer Person, Anthony Rother, Rephlex, D'Arcangelo, Transllusion, Warp and Clone, Drexciya, Boards of Canada ...
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 CANNIBAL WATERCOLORS
Nico Claux Has Been CalmedJello Biafra once said, "the only thing worse than living in the past is living off the past," but what about living off the dead in the past? What about living off the girls you used to eat to death in the past? France's most notorious "death addict," a psychotic cannibal who was charged with murde...
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 VICE FASHION - RAP DREAMS
If you know anything about the working class of Brooklyn, the Bronx, or Queens, you know their obsession with child rappers. The same way moms in Wisconsin enter their daughters in beauty pageants and help them with their routines, Bushwick moms enter their sons in rap battles and help them with the...
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 DEATH TO THE WEST
Weird-Looking Al Qaeda Psychos Are Eating Us for BreakfastThe West is for wimps. We are fat, overfed, soft as lamb's wool and getting on our own nerves. Have you ridden in an airplane recently? What is with all these girlie men wearing those faggy neck-pillows and putting their seat all the way back? Are they still in the womb?...
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 LITERARY
Ego Trip's Big Book of Racism, Despite Everything, Who Shot Ya?: Three Decades of Hip Hop PhotographyEgo Trip's Big Book of Racism
Sacha Jenkins, Elliott Wilson, Chairman Jefferson Mao, Gabriel Alvarez, Brent Rollins
This book is everything VICE has been trying to do since 1994. It disarms heavy-shit taboos with irreverent and well-informed criticism. The fact that the most frank a...
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 DON'T HATE ME
Because I'm BeautifulTwo months ago VICE featured a 90-pound anorexic woman as a DON'T and called her a "fat fucking pig." When the eating disorders (or EDs, as they call them) world got ahold of it, they ran to their computers and filled up every ED message board on the net. Here's our favorite....
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 MY AMERICA
Every once in a while you see or experience something that jolts you from your narcoleptic existence of useless pleasures and missed opportunities. And you are simultaneously reminded of: A) what can be, and B) just how lame we are as a people, as a culture. Maybe it's an "art car" where someone has...
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 HELL IS FOR SISTERS
The Beauty of BrosThis one goes out to all the sisters who grew up with brothers. Wait, I don't mean black women who grew up with black men. I mean women who grew up with male siblings. No offense: only-children and girls with just sisters, but y'all are soft. You don't get guys. Wait, I don't mean you're lonely and ...
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 OFF THE PIG
The Never Ending Brutality of JapantherJapanther is one of the hardest fucking bands in Brooklyn right now. They sound like Iron Maiden, Throbbing Gristle, and Lightning Bolt gave birth to a squealing little baby with flaming guitars for arms. Their shows are chaotic and danger-charged lovefests, and they are frighteningly dedicated to k...
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 SKINEMA
I love skateboarding and I love porn. I also love bacon and ice cream, just not at the same time. ...
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 OFF THE PIG
The Never Ending Brutality of PanthersPanthers is one of the fucking hardest bands in Brooklyn right now. They sound like James Brown, MC5, and Nation of Ulysses gave birth to a squealing little baby with guitars for arms. Their shows are like a chaotic and danger-charged sociology lecture. A couple of them are also in the hardcore band...
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 TIDBITS
A monthly look at things we love - v9n10VICE just opened a new store in New York. The address is 255 Lafayette (across from X-Large and down from Supreme) and it's got way more stuff in it than the other stores. Here are nine Tidbits we randomly grabbed from the shelves next to the cash....
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 THE VICE GUIDE TO GETTING BEATEN UP
Don't be a victim. If some huge fucking Coke machine of a guy tries to attack you, grab his right arm with the forefinger of your left hand, then twist it behind his back and kick in the back of his knees from behind. If he has a knife, use your elbows as side fists and smash his temples at 45 degre...
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 THE VICE GUIDE TO THE BRONX
by Fat JoeUp until a year ago, Fat Joe was known as one of the hardest rappers in hip hop. Even zealots like M.O.P. refer to him as the mayor of New York. His affiliations define street credibility. As a former graf writer, he's an honorary member of the Bronx's legendary TATS Cru (it should be noted that his...
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 YAKUZA NOISE TERROR
Xinlisupreme Fling Knives at SanityYasumi Okano and Takayuki Shouji are a couple of mysterious music nerds from Oita, Japan, who describe themselves as a "tender, strange, spiritual, violent band." And as Xinlisupreme, they've built a psychosexual robot-whore composed of Merzbow's torso, Suicide's arms, My Bloody Valentine's legs, an...
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