If you’re still looking for a summer job and are also a hot girl in northern Europe who doesn’t mind standing naked in pig’s blood before a crowd of corpse-painted masturbators, have we got the gig for you. Gorgoroth is looking for a young lady to be mock-crucified onstage at this year’s Wacken Metal Festival in Germany alongside Nocturnal Models Zorsha and Ebola. How great would it be if they ended up picking some girl named Sarah or Kelly?
Archive for May, 2008
DEUTSCHLAND - CRUCIFIX MODEL NEEDED
CORPORATE SHILLING - IT BEGINS
Just a nagging reminder that tomorrow night kicks off the second series of summer parties we’re putting on for Colt 45. Or rather, we’re kicking them off, the night’s just when it’s happen—look, you know what we mean. Click here to RSVP for one of them or see below for the updated lineup.
STUFFWATCH WITH VICE FASHION EDITOR ANNETTE LAMOTHE-RAMOS - THESE NEW JACKETS BY THIS GUY
Years ago when I was going through this weird acting phase I did a short film with a guy named Yoram Heller. I got to sit naked in a bathtub playing with a dish while he ("The Urban Gentleman") tossed rose petals into the water. It was definitely not as gay as it sounds, but I couldn’t help but think what the fuck is up with this dude? He wasn’t even an actor, just some jewish kid from LA who listened to hip-hop and looked like he went to NYU law school. Sounds awesome, right? But I guess I was a little too quick to judge because that kid turned out to be actually pretty awesome. He and his sister Dania have this new clothing line called The Hellers. Together they’ve created a slew of insane jackets by mixing and matching various dead stock materials from the 70s and 80s, like glittery silver satin combined with vintage Hermes fabric and a leopard print hood. Normally that sort of mash-up would make my eyes hurl, but in their hands I think it’s kinda cool.
ANNETTE LAMOTHE-RAMOS
NEW YORK - NEW BLACK LIPS
The Lips just got into town today for two insanely expensive shows at Terminal 5 and a couple more reasonable events Monday and later next week, and we just got the new video for "It Feels Alright" off their last album. Yep. Looks like everything’s in order here.
LONDON - OLD BLUE LAST IN PLAYBOY
The new edition of French Playboy has a 60-page section dedicated to all the "hot new stuff" coming out of London these days. Amid the expected corny garbage, they somehow managed to identify (correctly) the Old Blue Last, as a bastion of hot, drunken slappers. Of course they did it in Playboy language, which sort of kills the effect: "The young clientele has the best looks in all of London… The girls are very open minded, since they drink a lot."
NEW YORK - BURNING STAR CORE
C. Spencer Yeh is a funny guy from Taiwan who plays violin and was christened with a stage name. He’s also responsible for Burning Star Core, an instrumental “project” that sometimes involves other people and sometimes is just him purling into a microphone that’s plugged into a delay pedal while a keyboard plunks over a racket that could very well be someone throwing a toaster in a bathtub filled with drowning baby opossums. But that’s kind of an unfair description, because a lot of his stuff is really serene and delicate in a way that makes those two words not sound gay. Also, he lives in Cincinnati for some ridiculous reason.
LONDON - RADIO SHOW DOWNLOAD
Two of the Vice UK team, Jaimie Hodgson and James Knight, hosted a show on Diesel-U-Music Radio last week. They played a bunch of good and bad stuff, from Hot
Snakes to Huggy Bear to John Denver. They even managed to slip in a record
from our editor’s secret past in the UK hardcore underground.
Download: Part I / Part II
NEW YORK - NIERATKO VS. REDMAN
Rap interviews generally run a pretty narrow gamut: from shitty and dull to shitty and slightly irritating. Naturally there are exceptions, like that one with DMX from a couple of months ago where he was like "Where that nigga from, Africa or something?," and this meeting of the minds between Redman and Chris Niertako is one such brilliant aberration.
TIDBITS – IRISH FIGHT FLICKS
Real violence in the US has been all over the web for years and now—as shown by the rise of street fighter turned MMA contender Kimbo Slice—even upstreaming to primetime TV. Bare-knuckle fights over there are a hyped-up, pumped-up production set to a high-octane soundtrack of Slipknot and sometimes rap. Filmed fisticuffs in Ireland however are a bit different. Shot on shitty camcorders, they are a gritty, lo-fi affair featuring two big blokes with their shirts off and their dukes up, somewhere in the countryside. The only sounds you hear are fists hitting soft, flabby flesh, the scuffle of trainers on country lanes, and the barks of onlooking men, women and children, as well as the occasional dog.
SCANDINAVIA – TONIGHT! SKINS by GAVIN WATSON IN OSLO
LONDON - WE HEART J.SPACEMAN
Dear people with ears. This is a shameless plug that makes us feel no shame at all. Out this week is Spiritualized’s new record Songs In A&E. We got a copy of it about six months ago and have listened to it almost daily. We’re urging you to buy it because it’s about the only British record for such a long time to have any effect on us. And look out for J.Spaceman’s article about Mississippi Records (online today) and the soon-to-be-aired Spiritualized episode of Practice Space on VBS.
* We’re giving away limited edition double gatefold LPs of Spiritualized’s Songs In A&E (see photo). For a chance to win one, simply email us and we’ll select winners at random.
MELBOURNE/SYDNEY - ‘NEVERNESS, PART 1′ PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
Thomas Jeppe from NowNow has curated a group photography show called ‘Neverness, Part 1′ that will be showing in Melbourne for one night this Friday and opening in Sydney the following Thursday for two weeks. Featuring work by both international and homegrown artists, Linus Bill, Thobias Fäldt, Conor O’Brien, to mention but a few, you would be a fool or a bogan to miss it.
MELBOURNE Friday May 30 6pm-9pm, Right Angle Studios, 6/252 Swanston St, City.
SYDNEY Thursday June 5 opening night 6pm-9pm. June 6-22, Black & Blue Gallery 302/267-271 Cleveland Street, Redfern
MELBOURNE/SYDNEY - ‘NEVERNESS, PART 1′ PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
Thomas Jeppe from NowNow has curated a group photography show called ‘Neverness, Part 1′ that will be showing in Melbourne for one night this Friday and opening in Sydney the following Thursday for two weeks. Featuring work by both international and homegrown artists, Linus Bill, Thobias Fäldt, Conor O’Brien, to mention but a few, you would be a fool or a bogan to miss it.
MELBOURNE Friday May 30 6pm-9pm, Right Angle Studios, 6/252 Swanston St, City.
SYDNEY Thursday June 5 opening night 6pm-9pm. June 6-22, Black & Blue Gallery 302/267-271 Cleveland Street, Redfern
