 BEHIND THE MUSIC
The Guy That Invented Everything Is Broke
Remember Stanley Mouse? He's the guy who did all the Journey covers, even that shitty Frontiers one. He's also the guy who basically invented the idea of rock merchandise. He's also the guy who did all the Grateful Dead's art. You know what he has to show for ...READ MORE |
  ASK THE FARM
No offense, but who do you talk to out there?
What do you mean?
Well, you seem to have a half-decent IQ and you live out in the middle of rural Canada. They're all hillbilly inbreds out there. Who do you talk to?
I think you're...READ MORE |
 COMMERCIAL-FREE
Edan Brings Hip Hop Back
Although he was barely out of diapers when Kool Moe Dee battled Busy Bee, hip hop archeologist Edan has such a knowledge and passion for the music that you'd think he unearthed it himself. Reluctant to be labeled a rap expert, Edan's insight into the golden er...READ MORE |
 BEATS AND RHYMES
In honor of Molly Ringwald, I hollered at my man DJ Z-Trip this month for a little conversation on Anthony Michael Hall's favorite decade...
VICE: What are your best 80s memories?
Z-TRIP: Twisted Sister, hearing KRS-One for the first time,...READ MORE |
 CRAZY CARTOONS
Paper Rad Scares the Shit Out of Cute
The scene: Gumby is lounging on his bed. Prickle enters in a panic and says, "The unidragon ate the prism spheres we hid in Echo Cove!" Gumby panics. "If Santa Witch finds out they're missing, the rainbow graffiti will fade. It will fade!"...READ MORE |
 DEAR DIARY
Entry: January 16, 1991
January 16, 1991
Dear Diary,
I have to tell you something really weird! WAR has broke out. My friends and I are turning into hippies and having protests. Well, kind of, but this is NO JOKE. Some people may die! I don't think I'll be writing fo...READ MORE |
 DON'T STOP BELIEVIN'
Journey Never Did
Dude, check it: Journey are back. How back are they? Basically 100% back. Steve Perry has been replaced by Steve Perry impersonator Steve Augeri and the band has been blowing away audiences from coast to coast for the past four years. Some have argued that thi...READ MORE |
 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
Pretty Tony Butler, Maggotron, DXJ, David Noller, Scott Weiser, Dynamix II, Aphex Twin, Netzwerk Florida, Anthony Rother, Xanaconversex, Two Lone Swordsmen, Andrew Weatherall, Percy X, DMX Krew ...READ MORE |
 GRAB IT AND GO BOOM
What Ever Happened to L'Trimm?
You think being a female rapper in 2002 is tough? What about being a prim sixteen-year-old semi-nymphet from Miami with one of the raunchiest hits the 80s ever had?...READ MORE |
 HEY FAT ASS!
How I Tricked Heterosexuality
Hello. I am of the homosexual persuasion. When I was young, I was ostrichsized, sorry, ostracized, and felt bad about myself. As I grew older I became gayer and prouder and more predisposed to going out and having a good time (i.e., getting laid). That meant p...READ MORE |
 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The 80s Issue
Flowers in the Attic, Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, Tiger Eyes, It, Geek Love, The Postmodern Condition, Money: A Suicide Note...READ MORE |
 INDUSTRIAL BIG BEAT REVIVAL
Meat Beat Manifesto Never Left
Remember Jack Dangers? AKA Meat Beat Manifesto, the best breaks finder on the planet? The guy that's been doing it since all the musicians he influenced were pissing their diapers? In case you don't remember, Jack was/is a soft-spoken British transplant to Cal...READ MORE |
 MY AMERICA
Let's stop beating around the bush, I'm famous. Not famous enough to be invited to those parties that Chloë Sevigny gets to go to, where she sits in a corner having her picture taken for obscure magazines. Not that famous, but just famous enough to cause a con...READ MORE |
 INTRODUCING: BURGLEMIR THE FROST GIANT
Monotrona Says the Darndest Things
The first time I saw Monotrona she was on a kids' show. She was yelling about outer space and children were dancing around her because they didn't know what else to do. It was weird. The second time I saw her was at a tiny art gallery and I laughed my head off...READ MORE |
 IT'S EVERY VIDEO GAME IN THE WORLD
But Have We Gone Too Far?
Genes didn't fucking get us here. Shit, monkeys have genes. It's memes: the ability to tell the next generation what just happened-that's what put us on the map. If a monkey wasn't there, it didn't happen; if we weren't there, someone sends us an email about i...READ MORE |
 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The 80s Issue
OK, we've been kind of gypping you on the "Tidbits" recently, so this month we're going to throw in two extra ones.
First off, get this: I literally jumped on this cockroach with all my might and squished a good 40% of its guts out. Then, as a funny p...READ MORE |
 OOOH WATCH OUT
Chromeo Are Cooling It Right Now
It is truly inspiring in these troubled times to see a towelhead and a heeb making beautiful sexxx jams together. Chromeo is Pee and Dave, friends since their Montreal adolescence. They've crossed the Gaza Strip of music to fuse their predilections for two lam...READ MORE |
 SID SINGS
And the Commodore 64 Massive Represent
It's 1987 and you're settled down in your room playing California Games on your Commodore 64. Between rounds of computer hacky sack and surfing, you absentmindedly think, This music is totally cool. I wish I could have it on a record. Flash forward to 2002. Yo...READ MORE |
 SUPREME'S COURT OF APPEALS
The Calendar of the Year Has Arrived
"My goal was to put together a calendar that you could jerk off to," says fashion photographer Terry Richardson of the new calendar he shot for Supreme. "I know I would jerk off to this, so I feel like I've succeeded." At the shoot in LA, what started out as a...READ MORE |
 THE DAY I JOINED THE KKK
Was Super Fucking Gay
In the summer of 1989, I joined the KKK. I never formally quit, so I guess technically I'm still a member. Shit, I never thought of that. I'm in the KKK.
The 80s was an interesting time for TV news media, the end of an era. News magazine shows were ab...READ MORE |
 THE JOURNEY BACK
Thom Lessner's Rock n' Roll Scrapbooks
VICE: Dear Thom,
I need an angle for this article on you. I feel like I have to mention the whole "skateboarders that do art" thing (Ed Templeton, Mike Mills, Phil Frost, Neil Blender, Ryan McGinness, Mark Gonzales, Thomas Campbell, Chris Johanson, Lor...READ MORE |
 THE LIAR, THE BITCH AND THE WARDROBE
Video Games Beats Out Music, Movies and Drugs as the Greatest Escape
1997 was a special time. If you weren't working for a dot-com, you were reaping the rewards of their overspending somewhere down the line. I was making about $80,000 a year, and if I liked a girl in, say, San Francisco, I'd buy her a ticket to New York for the...READ MORE |
 THE VICE GUIDE TO "FINDING YOURSELF"
13 Tried and Not-So-True Methods
When you become more than twenty years old, you have to find yourself. By "find yourself" we mean everything from figuring out why you're here on this planet to becoming a man/woman to coming out of the closet to being ready for a real relationship.
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