 BARFING WITH A BONER
The New Pornography Leaves Critics Sickened
Pornography 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 t...READ MORE |
  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)....READ MORE |
 CALLING ALL BIRDS
The Streets Re-Create the Dancefloor
Mike 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 Bri...READ MORE |
 DEAR DIARY
Entry: Spring 1994
Spring 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 pull...READ MORE |
 CALLING ALL BITCHES
Streets Are All About Destruction
Streets 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...READ MORE |
 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 ...READ MORE |
 CANNIBAL WATERCOLORS
Nico Claux Has Been Calmed
Jello 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 psych...READ MORE |
 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 so...READ MORE |
 DEATH TO THE WEST
Weird-Looking Al Qaeda Psychos Are Eating Us for Breakfast
The 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 i...READ MORE |
 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Violence Issue
Ego Trip's Big Book of Racism, Despite Everything, We’re Desperate: The Punk Rock Photography of Jim Jocoy, Who Shot Ya?: Three Decades of Hip Hop Photography, Painful but Fabulous: The Lives and Art of Genesis P-Orridge...READ MORE |
 DON'T HATE ME
Because I'm Beautiful
Two 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...READ MORE |
 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. M...READ MORE |
 HELL IS FOR SISTERS
The Beauty of Bros
This 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 guy...READ MORE |
 OFF THE PIG
The Never Ending Brutality of Japanther
Japanther 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, a...READ MORE |
 SKINEMA
By Chris Nieratko
SKATE TRIXXX 2
I love skateboarding and I love porn. I also love bacon and ice cream, just not at the same time. If I want to watch good skateboarding, I’ll pop in Video Days, but I want my pornos chock full of sex. Make sure there’s nonstop fuckin...READ MORE |
 OFF THE PIG
The Never Ending Brutality of Panthers
Panthers 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 coup...READ MORE |
 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Violence Issue
VICE 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....READ MORE |
 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...READ MORE |
 THE VICE GUIDE TO THE BRONX
by Fat Joe
Up 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 legenda...READ MORE |
 YAKUZA NOISE TERROR
Xinlisupreme Fling Knives at Sanity
Yasumi 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, Suicid...READ MORE |
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