Published March, 2002
 ANGRY WHITE HARDMEN
"The City of Culture" Will Eat You Alive
Why is everyone so scared of Africa? Do Africans throw lawn darts at people's heads for liking the wrong soccer team? Do Africans stand on the street corner and say "Fancy a fight?" like they're asking for a cigarette? When you cut someone's face from ear to e...Read more |
  BEATS AND RHYMES
Your man J-Live is finally dropping both his original debut album and a new one very close to each other. The Best Part, originally supposed to be released a couple years back on London, and recently bootlegged, is finally seeing an "official" release c...Read more |
 BOOTS AND BRACES
An Ominous New Group of "Racialists" Has Emerged
The right is back. All over Europe right-wing groups are receiving support they haven't seen since Le Pen. In Austria fervent Nazi Joerg Haider and his Freedom Party are the nation's No. 1 choice and racist skinheads are gaining newfound popularity all over no...Read more |
 DEAD BROTHERS
Funk Legend Roger Troutman Is Back From the Grave
Its been almost three years since Roger Troutman, funk pioneer and leader of Zapp, was killed in a murder/suicide by his brother Larry. Reports said Roger was found in the back of his recording studio and later died of multiple gunshot wounds while in surgery....Read more |
 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
Subject: Montreal Minimal Mecca.
Forget all the shit you heard about Detroit, Berlin, and Chicago. Stockholm on the nex nex? Yeah, right. It seems that more and more the next wave of innovative North American techno producers are calling one partic...Read more |
 IMMIGRANT CROSSING
Racial Tension Reaches the Dorm Room
When you walk down a deserted Ukrainian beach and see a tiny sand crab with a Coca Cola cap for a shell, you can't help but think to yourself "holy shit." The crab, though not a genius himself, has just made a profound comment about the ubiquity of commerciali...Read more |
 HONG KONG PHOOEY
Inform3r and Katya Casio Want Electroitalodiscohienergypunkgoth Done Right
You may have heard electrodisco jams like "Discotto Plastique" on every runway in New York City and noticed the band was always wearing clothes from underground NYC designers like Garo Sparo, but Hong Kong Counterfeit are way bigger than New York. They are eve...Read more |
 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Race Issue
RYAN MCGINLEY
You might know Ryan’s work from Vice’s controversial Polaroids or fashion shoots but this book, the first ever for Index Magazine, shows that he doesn’t need to show you coke...Read more |
 SKATE OR DESTROY
Violent Ramp Get Violent on Ramps
Aaron Dilloway (guitar, voice), John Olson (drums, intros), and Michael Troutman (bass) live together in Ann Arbor, skateboard every day, and play in a band aptly named Violent Ramp. Inspired by seminal skate-rock like JFA, the Faction, and Negative Approach, ...Read more |
 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Race Issue
TWO-WAYS
Previously owned exclusively by black people, two-ways are rapidly killing cell phones as the most convenient way to talk to people. There's no unwanted ringing, no disturbing other...Read more |
 STEPFATHER FACTORY
El P Gets Revenge
When I was twelve, my stepfather (Scott Bivans) beat my mother to near death. He liked to drink. Mom stood her ground at first, desperately holding a butcher knife to the canvas of one of his paintings hoping to turn the night's events in her favor by creating...Read more |
 THE GUY IN SHADES
TIGA's Electro Killed the Techno Star
TIGA is our nigger. That's why we've never done anything on him before. You feel like you're being lazy if you do something on your nigger. As George Bush put it, "I didn't mention Canada because I thought it was understood. They are our brothers."...Read more |
 TIME HAS COME TODAY
Have the Yeah Yeah Yeahs Already Made It?
Last year The Yeah Yeah Yeahs played their first gig. Singer Karen O came out slicked down in oil wearing only heart-shaped pasties on her breasts, and the band played so hard they blew headliners the White Stripes off the stage...Read more |
 THE VICE GUIDE TO ALL THE RACES
There are a lot of different races in the world. They range from the truly ugly (whites and abbos) to the infinitely attractive (blacks and Asians). Though our genetic structure is 99% the same, there are still some massive fucking differences. The problems co...Read more |
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