Volume 14 Issue 8
This Ain't Dad Rock
Blues Control are a two-piece New York entity who, like their music, are slowly and steadily building steam, creating mind-bending music on their own terms. Formed in January 2006 as a tongue-in-cheek side project to Watersports (an improvisational new...
Ain't No Fun
What happened? Last summer it felt like we were on the verge of something great. Bands were being exciting and original and kids were putting on parties in squats. Every weekend was like a holiday you wanted to go on forever. A whole year later and we...
Tidbits
THIRD-WORLD GANG BISCUITS FOR KIDSThese wheat biscuits were made in Mumbai. Guess which coast of India Mumbai is on. That's right. West Si-i-i-i-y-eeeed represent! Thanks to Nana, Kyoto, Japan
We Got Out
I met these three people in a nine-story Christian church for North Korean refugees in Seoul. I don't know the church's name; the reverend told me just to call it Seoul Church.
Vice Pictures - Your Logo Here (and Here, And Here, And Here)
Photos by Deanna TempletonPhotographer Deanna Templeton recently began documenting a trend
The Birth Of Trance-hop
I remember reading a Lil Jon interview a few years ago where he was talking about how ecstasy was seeping into the Dirty South hip-hop scene, mainly through strip clubs. What happened was club owners would give girls pills to keep them dancing all...
Doomsday Metal
The connection between extreme metal and Eddie Meduza, the lewd god of homemade, Swedish slapstick music, is muddy at best. Still, a lot of metalheads secretly worship him, and there are devoted fans in bands like Hypocrisy and Necrophobic. Maybe it's...
Adaptable Band
Four years ago Kill Boogie were called Solar Crete. Back then the three-piece lived in Brisbane, in a house where Kylie Minogue filmed part of The Delinquents. When their original bassist (a trained sax player) left, awesome guitarist Thomas Madden was...
Wankfest Overload
Guitar solos are ruling. No matter how much some old guy in the pub dribbling into his bitter at closing time goes on about how important three-chords and '76 and blah and blah and blah, solos are still a massively important part of guitar rock. That's...