 10 "SEMINAL" BANDS
That You Say You Love but Never Actually Listen to
OK let's cut the bullshit. Nobody's heard Brian Eno before, The Talking Heads are crap, and, besides one album and one other song, Sonic Youth are unlistenable noise. Right?
The Boredoms and Guitar Wolf look great, but who actually listens to them? Th...READ MORE |
  10 "IRRELEVANT" BANDS
That You Never Mention but Listen to Every Day
These are not guilty pleasures. The Geto Boys are not uncool. These are just bands that, for some reason or another, nobody notices that they love. Bands the music press frowns upon but everyone listens the shit out of....READ MORE |
 ASK THE FARM
What is the big deal with plants and animals becoming extinct? Things were coming and going billions of years before we got here. Isn't that just the natural evolution of life?
This is different. It's never been caused by just one species (humans) ...READ MORE |
 15 MINUTES OF FAME
Gold Chains Repetitive Success
The last time VICE saw Gold Chains was in March. The hairy San Franciscan sex dwarf was scampering around a thickly carpeted VIP lounge with a cordless mic in his hand, gnawing at the tattooed ankles of celebs like Kate Moss and troubled British soap starlet M...READ MORE |
 BEATS + RHYMES
Someone needs to do a story on the Rhyme Syndicate. Think about it - Ice-T's former crew had a lot of cats down with it. A lot of important cats. Donald D. Nat the Cat (I want to do a remake of "While You've Been Waiting," if you're down with it). Toddy Tee. D...READ MORE |
 COKE, BOOZE, AND BITCHES
Life on the Warp Records Tour Bus
We're in Dresden, The once beautiful East German city that was flattened by Allied bombers during World War II and later blighted by grimly functional Communist architecture. The close-cropped, multi-disciplinary artist and hard-drive jockey Russell Haswell ha...READ MORE |
 DEAR DIARY
Entry: March 28, 1991
March 28, 1991
Dear Diary,
I don't have any boyfriends and have never gotten to first in my life. It's probably because I make a brick wall jealous. I guess I care but there's nothing I can do about it. I just think that if anyone ever read th...READ MORE |
 CREATIVE PUBLICITY
Today's Artists Don't Need a Studio
Hey, which celebrities did Mick Jagger network, flirt with, fuck, or try to meet to get where he is today?
None.
Jagger comes from a time when narcissism, exhibitionism and - oh, yes - hard work and creativity were still the only tools of the tra...READ MORE |
 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
Art Of Perception, Warhammer 40,000, Mike Ink, Johannes Heil, Kim Cascone, the Modernist, Rude Solo, Keith Tenniswood, Andrew Weatherall, Christian Morgenstern, Jimi Tenor, Codec & Flexor, Kitbuilders, Mike Patton, John Zorn, Aelters, Felix Kubin, Dat Politic...READ MORE |
 MONEY WILL MAKE THE DOG DANCE
Mexican Punks Change Art Forever
The art in Mexico City is shit. Correction - the art in Mexico City WAS shit until a punk painter named Miguel Calderon and his buddy, video artist Yoshua Okon, rebuilt it from the ground up. Now the city is an international player with young artists getting f...READ MORE |
 GAMES
The Italian Job & Spider-Man
THE ITALIAN JOB
The Italian Job, the film, is one of those campy, London-in-the-swinging-’60s numbers where Michael Caine plays a crude and ugly cockney guy that gets laid a lot and the notoriously effeminate Noel Coward plays a very heterosexual a...READ MORE |
 NOT FIT TO PRINT
This first piece of paper was given to a tall, big-titted Asian girl who always has freaks hitting on her. This guy (a total fucking stranger) knew he was up against some stiff competition so he decided the smartest thing to do would be to sneak her this no...READ MORE |
 MY AMERICA
DRUG WAR ENDS IN HUGE SUCCESS!!!
There's a headline you'll never see, unless it's Backwards Day (which I am still trying to get Congress to officially recognize). Unfortunately, the War on Drugs (hereafter to be referred to as "Randy") seems to be ...READ MORE |
 NYC HATES THE YING YANG TWINS
But What About a Party
While East Coast MCs try their hardest to be complex and lyrical, Southern rappers give us onomatopoeic hooks we can remember. Just think of classics such as "Make 'Em Say Ungggh," "Hootie Hooo," and "Bwok! Bwok! Chickenhead." This year, the crunkness anthem o...READ MORE |
 READY, STEADY, GO!
Comet Gain Alleviate the Boredom
Ah, the grand tradition of British bands writing paeans to their own youth culture. Such sociological undertakings are part of a long lineage, from The Who to The Jam, The Smiths to Blur. The best practitioners of this proud art that you're likely to find work...READ MORE |
 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Bands That Suck Issue
Y2K 168 in 1 - the greatest tidbit of all time
Hello, my name is Marc and I am unemployed. It's been three months now, and it's not so bad really. You get to watch a lot of TV, beer at lunch feels totally normal, and masturbating becomes more l...READ MORE |
 SPACE CRYSTALS 2000
Germany's Most Seminal Band
Space Crystals 2000 are from the northern Germany and manage to combine intensity, a tendency towards melancholy, and a notion of idealistic art in both their lyrics as well as their Gothic / Dark Wave music.
They feature female vocals with prominent ...READ MORE |
 WEED IS BLACK
Blow Blew It
The late '90s saw cocaine MORE popular than ever. All over New York City there were bars and after-hours devoted solely to providing their patrons with the finest snow money could buy. It was the ideal drug. It went perfectly with booze, you could do it practi...READ MORE |
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