 BEACHCOMBERS
Garbage-Picking the Ocean From Here to Prison
I've found everything short of a human body washed up on the beach," said my friend Russ. During a couple of winters spent caretaking a fishing lodge on an island off British Columbia's west coast, he discovered the joys of beachcombing-pulling random cast-off...READ MORE |
  BEATS AND RHYMES
Jazze Pha is the future. Peep game.
One of the most highly anticipated groups in recent memory, Slum Village have hit you off with not one, but two different projects to sink your teeth into. The Dirty District mix CD (Sequence) contains a few SV cuts, pl...READ MORE |
 BOSOM BUDDIES
Larry and Harmony - From Kids to Ken Park
Everyone has a different opinion of the guy who did Kids with Harmony Korine. Some say Larry Clark is a visionary auteur who bravely portrays the decay of innocence in today's youth. Others insist he's a grizzled old pervert who uses big movie budgets as excus...READ MORE |
 BY DESIGN
Zeitergeist. Victorian patterns soon haunting a coffee-table book near you.
Patterns are the shit. After years of cold, hard lines and over-teched fliers covered in arrows, the electronic-music scene is showing that it's ready for some tricked-out org...READ MORE |
 DEAD FLOWERS
Amy Gartrell Does Death Justice
Amy Gartrell's art is a strange and wonderful assortment of Day-Glo goth and new-age bummers-things like portraits of dead rockstars, a giant painting of tattered lace or of Darby Crash's tombstone, a sculpture of an impossibly high wishing well, or graphic, f...READ MORE |
 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
Tomas Jirku, David Kristian, Leaf, Schematic, Alien8, Lo Recordings, Law and Auder, Tigerbeat6, Andrew Duke, Cognition, Aerosmith, Bip-Hop label, Staalplaat, Signer, Substractif, The Octopus Project, Peek-A-Boo Records, Stereolab...READ MORE |
 ELECTROTRASH - THE SECOND COMING
And the Pants Are Off!
Is electroclash dead? Has it been reborn as electrotrash? Did a lack of serious musical credibility kill its momentum, or has its lightheartedness given it longevity?
Last year, when we did "The VICE Guide to Electroclash" (we wanted to call it "elect...READ MORE |
 GO DIET CRAZY
Colombian Art Students Revel in the Misery
This is the truth: This baseball hat is worth $1,000. There are no others like it in the world. Dozens of hats were killed to make this hat. This hat is the originator of a fashion collective called Go Die from Los Angeles. They only make hats like this. Each ...READ MORE |
 MY AMERICA
Here's another group of people I'd like to see go back to where they came from: this generation's Luddites.
According to the dictionary, a Luddite is "one who opposes technical or technological change." It comes from Ned Ludd, an English laborer, who,...READ MORE |
 I'M NOT CRAZY
Another New York Rapper Gets Institutionalized
Cage grew up just like every other kid in New York. He was into rapping, stealing, jocking girls, and lying. Eventually the usual petty shit led to some bad luck, and the bad luck led to probation. The judge insisted that one more fuck-up would get him locked ...READ MORE |
 MUSSOLINI IS DEAD
Bellini Don't Want to Talk About It
Damon Che is the drummer in Bellini. He used to be the drummer in Don Caballero, indie kings of strange time-signature instrumentals. If "Don Cab" sounded like a genius band stuffed in a sack and thrown down a flight of stairs, Bellini sounds like an equally t...READ MORE |
 SKINEMA
By Chris Nieratko
THE ANAL GIRLS OF TOBACCO ROAD
I smoke two packs of cigarettes a day and have been doing so since I was 15. And I like it. I like knowing I won’t have to live as long as the next guy. I like waking up and spitting out thick green-gray balls of phle...READ MORE |
 NEVER MIND THE DOGTOWN
Stoked Skates and Destroys
To make a long story short, Mark Rogowski-a.k.a. Gator, a.k.a. Gator Marc Anthony-is a man who became rich and famous as a pro skater starting in the '80s and is now 10 years into a life sentence for the brutal rape and murder of a woman he barely knew....READ MORE |
 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Death Issue
THIS MONTH'S TIDBITS WERE 100% WRITTEN BY SOMEONE THAT WAS DRUNK ON CICLÓN
People will fucking stab you in the back. People you think are "nice" will kill you. You know who's going to be there when the shit hits the fan? I'll tell you who: the ...READ MORE |
 PLASTIC JOCKS
3.5 Megabytes and the Old School Future
Three to one is my favourite ratio
I travel through space in search of fellatio
-3.5 Megabytes
In the mid-'90s, New Jersey indie rock was in danger. The shoegazing movement started by those self-absorbed snaggletoothed Brits across the pond ...READ MORE |
 THE SADDEST DAY
An Old Bird Remembers
The two saddest things I ever saw in my life were about birds. The loneliness they feel, the suffering the endure-it can drive you mad. My husband Jack used to hunt, until one day something terrible happened. He shot a duck and it landed in our pond. He was ve...READ MORE |
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