Wolf Eyes live is like seeing a stage show adaptation of having your genitals sewn to your face while repeatedly listening to Eraserhead with the volume up to twelve. We did an article once where our friends got really stoned and reviewed the band’s cover art and music and we’re pretty sure they’ve never been the same since. Wolf Eyes are playing in Melbourne tomorrow night, and around the rest of the country after that.
Archive for June, 2006
Australia - Wolf Eyes Tour
Dear Vice - Dog Come
An hour north of Toronto is this city called Markham that’s like 90% Asian. Needless to say, Markham is filled with both some pretty awesome Chinese stuff and some pretty fucked-up Chinese stuff. This dog store finally changed its name, after about a year, to Dog Zone. But I will forever know it as Dog Come. With the beads in the window, it sort of looks like some seedy dog massage parlour. Also, if you look at the sign on the window, it says that Dog Come offers a ‘doggie buffet’. Even if they’d never heard of that stereotype, why didn’t somebody warn them sooner. And what the fuck does ‘dog come’ mean in Hong Kong?
Anyways, enjoy,
Allison
London - Gross Jar Update
With the recent hot weather, the streets of Dalston have been engulfed in the smell of rotting flesh left out by butchers in Ridley Road market. Without adequate refrigeration, the meat and fish has been festering into maggot-infested pulp. It’s been such a problem that Hackney council have warned market traders who leave meat out overnight that they will be taken to court. One council spokesman held a handkerchief over his face and said: “this is particularly unpleasant in hot weather”.
Melbourne - Table Tennis Tournament
We held a massive table tennis tournament to help Rockstar launch their new game and discovered just how difficult it is to co-ordinate 64 players when you have an open bar and a dj that insists on playing deafeningly loud techno. As people were disqualified and the number of players became manageable, it got pretty intense — especially when Anthony Mundine, the king of Australian boxing, went head to head with our country’s number one table tennis player (see the video). In the end, our friend Andy from the band The Midnight Juggernauts won the comp, beating the Aussie TT champ because he was useless at computer games.
Melbourne - Vice Australia 3rd Birthday
To celebrate our 3rd year of existence in Australia on the weekend we cleared out an old, disused Spanish club, which is about to be knocked down, and built a ginormous stage, bar and ping pong room. Local bands Temper Trap (ex Temper Temper), Drama For Yamaha, Yokel Ono from NZ and Damn Arms played and they were all awesome. We brought Spank Rock over from Baltimore and they made people go nuts and storm the stage. Kids were throwing Naeem and the DJs in the air and they didn’t even miss a beat. In most of the photos we’ve seen, all we can make out are random limbs and naked girls.
Dear Vice - Jerry Responds
I must take exception with something Jay Johnston said in his interview in the latest issue of Vice. Jay talks about he and I playing gay cops on Arrested Development and how I was uncomfortable acting gay. While that might be true, I am an actor and a good one at that. I have no problem being gay for money and must clear the record and say that my reason for giving him “shit”, as he puts it, was not that we had to be gay, but that he automatically assumed the position of “top” in our relationship. I’ll have Jay and the rest of your readers know that just because Jay is bigger and white that does not automatically make him the dominant one, if and when we have a gay relationship.
Thank You,
Jerry C. Minor - Now Co-starring as a straight head of household on Lucky Louie 10:30 Sundays on HBO
New York - Viceland Raps
Sorry Viceland Rap’s been MIA. There actually hasn’t been much to write about. Tis a sad year for hip hop so far. By now I’m assuming that you’ve heard Andre’s hip-hop quotable on OutKast’s “The Mighty O,” realized that Mobb Deep’s new album is crap, realized that Cam’s Killa Season is actually good, and jammed DJ Drama and Lil Wayne’s Dedication 2 mixtape. Are we all good here? And now for the staff pics of the week. Three joints to download and one we just felt like shitting on. Let’s go. – Dave 1
Sweden - Babyshambles / Black Lips
This is Pete Doherty holding one of our Scandinavian editor’s Sonics albums this weekend in Stockholm. If you live in the region you’ve probably already seen this picture to death, but for those of you outside the Swedish tabloids’ sphere of influence here’s what they’ve been gabbin’ about. After playing at the Hultsfred Festival in Sweden last Friday and getting slightly busted for some coke he was carrying around in his bloodstream, Doherty and crew beat feet for Stockholm, met up with the Black Lips (our current fave southerners), and convinced them to let Babyshambles open at their gig the next night. Accounts are pretty sketchy across the board, but we can be reasonably sure at least a couple of the following things occurred:
BARCELONA - VICE vs SONAR 2006
Vice descended on Barcelona for Sonar, the world’s premiere electronic music festival. The city thudded for three days with events happening all over, from pool parties on fancy hotel roofs to free-for-all beach raves (where we saw this amazingly coiffured mohican/ mullet/ dreadlocked dude).
Pictures: Sonar 2006
London - England vs. Brazil
Last week, we met up with a group of rappers from the Brazilian favelas of Sao Paolo down at the Old Blue Last. They are over here collaborating with UK rappers, such as Sway for a project called the TrocaBrahma Exchange (sponsored by delicious Brahma beer). We had a chat with them about England’s chances in the World Cup and they weren’t too kind, so we decided to set up a rap battle between Brazil and England. We have no idea what they’re talking about, but check out the drummer.
Video: Sway vs. Instituto
New York - Free Sarah Silverman
Sarah Silverman’s record company liked our interview with her so much that they decided they’d give us a bunch of free copies of her CD and DVD, Jesus Is Magic. But then we read the fine print and realized that the whole deal was that we had to give them away, to readers of Viceland. Lame. Whatever, we already got that shit on our iTunes anyway.
So here’s the deal. The ten best emails to vice@viceland.com about why Jesus is Magic win a DVD copy of the movie. And the ten best emails about why Sarah is the funniest woman ever win the CD - which has a bunch of extra songs and shit on there.
UPDATE: Oh, and you have to live in the U.S. to win. Sowwy, rest of the world.
Scandinavia - The Snake Boiler
A couple of years ago, Stefan Danielsson drew logos for Swedish black metal bands like Triumphator and Nefandus. His latest work, which opens in Sweden this week, concentrates on cheery things like Liberian child soldiers, death and voodoo. Instead of “band-aiding” away all the rough edges in Photoshop, he uses antique papers and pictures from photo books that he sandpapers down, as well as using pieces of dead snakes to add to the creepy factor. He also once decided to boil a snake that he had found by the side of the road, causing his apartment to smell like an autopsist’s.
“I Hide In Snakes” is now on at the Galleri Loyal, Torsgatan 59, Stockholm, Sweden.
New York - Millions of Dead Cops a Quarter of a Century Ago
MDC’s nominative cop-hating may have chilled in recent years, but what about the band’s salad days, back when calling out McDonald’s or the Man still had some semblance of actual political meaning and being outraged over a guy getting shot just for breaking into somebody’s house made perrrrfect sense. Considering most kids these days have a hard time remembering what we were saying at the beginning of this sentence, we figured it’d be nice to provide a little personal refresher on some of Austin’s most vitriolic sons. So here you go.
(PS, photo at right is Blake of Anal Chinook playing the leg.
