 THIS IS DISCO PUNK
The Rapture and DFA Start the Next Wave
When James Murphy and his friends started a record label they didn't know they would be changing the course of music forever. "We were having these parties at our studio and we were running out of records to play," he told us from DFA headquarters in New York....READ MORE |
  BEATS + RHYMES
How come people still don't give Eazy-E his deserved props? Everyone gives mad love, props, respect to Big, 'Pac, and Pun (R.I.P. I'm sending y'all my love too), but forgets about Eazy. If it wasn't for that cat putting his drug loot towards starting Ruthless ...READ MORE |
 DOLLTASTIC!!!
Hitler and Castro Meet the Chainsaw Massacre Guy
All day long Deborah Mohr makes little dolls of Adolf Hitler.
An ex-distributor for toy giants like Kenner and McFarlane, Deborah makes dolls with the help of toy factories in China and the staff of her In The Past Toys company, comprised of her siste...READ MORE |
 DEAR DIARY
Entry: April 1992
April 1992
I just read my old diary and I'm just going to concentrate on the future. Anyway sooo much has happened. I got to first with Collin behind the diner. Big deal, not! I'm sorry to say but my rep now is a "dirtbag" and there's really nothin...READ MORE |
 DRIVE-IN AND CRYIN'
Life After At The Drive-In
Even though they were a nerdy, teetotal emo rock band, the breakup of At The Drive-In was messier than an X-treme Bukake DVD.
After six years of playing the hardcore backpack emo circuit and then signing a major deal that propelled them onto the world...READ MORE |
 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
Jean Jacques Perrey, Raymond Scott, BMX Kidz, Enduro Records, Ron Hubbard, Steve Claydon, Add N To X, Jeans Team, Op:l Bastards, Rephlex, Ovuca, Plundersonic, Mellissa Logan, Carpark label, Marumari, Supermogadon, Josh Presseisen, Tigerbeat6 , Isophlux, Kracfi...READ MORE |
 THE LANDSCAPE OF THE WORD
An Ontology of the Language of Contemporary (hyper)Spaces
At the end of The Order of Things, Michel Foucault describes that harrowing, yet liberating condition of our epistemic moment: the erasure or dispersal of on the horizon of history as comes into the fullness of its being-in-itself. Yet ever si...READ MORE |
 OI! RESPECT! AIII!
The Massive Risks Behind Today's UK Garage
Based mostly in South and East London and populated by kids from rough council estates, today's UK garage scene still thrives through underground pirate radio where kids who call themselves things like MC Gappyrider rap a weird blend of Jamaican patois and coc...READ MORE |
 GAMES
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast & Virtua Fighter 4
JEDI KINIGHT II: JEDI OUTCAST
They might as well have called this game Crack Knight II: Jedi Crack Addict because that’s how addictive it is. I found myself getting up two hours early before work to play this game. Hell, let’s be honest here. I cal...READ MORE |
 SEX MACHINE
Intercourse Has Been Replaced
Be honest. How many painful hours have you and your erection spent pretending to listen to the inane prattle of some excruciatingly self-absorbed twit while wondering whether or not she's ever going to shut up and let you stick your hands in her pants? How man...READ MORE |
 MY AMERICA
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! I don't know if you've heard, but the Catholic priesthood just got a whole lot sexier! Recently, the Reverend (reverend - from the Latin "reverendus," or "to revere") John Geoghan was sentenced to 9 to 10 years in prison for fondling a 10-...READ MORE |
 SKI DEMSKI IS DEAD
How About You?
Ski Demski was more than just a sexy, vulnerable, and honest man. He was an all-American turd annihilator. A fountain of youth for the old-timers. A superman.
We met Ski at a primary school where he was doing a talk on patriotism. He was turning his H...READ MORE |
 TOUCHING PEOPLE
Our Top 10 Outsider Videos
So your copy of Heavy Metal Parking Lot is so mint you want to "jump its bownes" and the audio on your Senator Bud Dwyer Blows His Head Off video is so clear you can hear "hey Bud, Bud, don't!" in your nightmares. You have punk Quincy, punk CHiPS, and a straig...READ MORE |
 RECORDINGS FOR DEVIANTS
Pippilina - "Upsquirrel"
(Nanobrat Music)
We live in a world where nothing is unfamiliar. A world where we have, at our fingertips, every college student's unskilled and sophomoric attempt at an electronic blending of the Blade Runner soun...READ MORE |
 THE VICE GUIDE TO DJ QUIK
If there's anybody you need to be jocking in this rap game (besides Ghostface) it's DJ Quik. Dude is a West Coast legend. Peep game: he's been jheri-curling it for over twelve years, has rhymes that make Too $hort sound like a feminist and beats that got Dr. D...READ MORE |
 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Conspiracy Theories Issue
1 STREET FIGHTER TWO STAND-UP
Being one of those nouveau riche, dot-com-type companies, we like to ride around the office on lowriders and play old video games (no water cooler here!). There's even beer in the fridge (ooooh kaaay!). There's even ro...READ MORE |
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