Entering the dark caves of our favorite bands.
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Practice Space: PK 14
Chinese post-punk, addressed to the nation's disaffected youth.
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Practice Space: Atlas Sound
Thomas Morton gets brunch with Bradford Cox, who fronts the Atlanta band Deerhunter and performs as a solo artist under the moniker Atlas Sound.
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Practice Space: Elephant Man
Chrissy Barnes links up with Elephant Man at Bad Boy Studios while the dancehall star is recording a new track featuring Diddy.
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Practice Space: Golden Triangle
Thomas Morton visits Brooklyn band Golden Triangle's artsy practice space fully equipped with space for yoga and religious fish.
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Practice Space: SUBS
The Beijing band formed during the outbreak of the SARS virus.
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Practice Space: Calvin Johnson
Step into Calvin Johnson's musical laboratory in Olympia, Washington.
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Mudhoney
Jordan heads to Seattle to catch up with Mudhoney.
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The Rural Alberta Advantage
Jordan spends the day with The Rural Alberta Advantage.
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Chad Vangaalen
Jordan Redaelli heads to Calgary to hang out at Chad Vangaalen’s backyard studio.
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Harry Merry (NL)
Voor deze Practice Space gingen we langs bij Harry Merry, de obscure superheld uit Rotterdam die weirde, doch fantastische muziek maakt en die bij zijn moeder woont.
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Lullabye Arkestra
VBS visit’s Lullabye Arkestra in their native Toronto.
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The Almighty Defenders
VBS catches up with the Black Lips/King Khan/Mark Sultan super-group while they rehearse for a show in Montreal.
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Obits
Thomas Morton convenes in the bathroom with Obits, a straight-forward rock supergroup from Brooklyn.
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Haunted Grafitti
Ariel Pink talks about the bafflement caused by his group’s name – Haunted Graffiti – and the tour games they play involving the physically handicapped.
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Silk Flowers
Silk Flowers are a drum, key-and-button trio from Brooklyn who write brooding, Europeany electronic music tucked away inside a massive post-industrial labyrinth.
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Blues Control
Queens’ most hospitable experimentalists face their critics.
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Amebix
England’s crust-punk barbarians take refuge in hand-forged swords and mysterious, stone-carved glyphs.
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Bruno S.
The man who played Stroszek busks away our blues.
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The Weight
Picture-perfect Americanan chill music from a quintet of Southern emigres.
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Carbonas
Atlantan punks mix their death-metal metaphors.
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Sian Alice Group
Sian Alice Group is one of the few British bands in recent memory whose music doesn’t make us want to walk into the woods and let nature take its course
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Spiritualized
VBS meets up with Jason Pierce ahead of Spirtualized’s eerily brilliant live show.
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Blood on the Wall
Blood on the Wall give us a night to remember.
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Hong Kong Blood Opera
Hong Kong Blood Opera
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Silverio
Silverio
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Maria Daniela
Electro fuck jams from La Condesa.
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Jessy Bulbo
Hyperkinetic crescendos and epicene yowls from a Mexico City siren.
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Los Dynamite
Mexican dance-punk in Colonia Roma.
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Acrassicauda
Acrassicauda is Iraq’s first and greatest metal band.
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Hot Chip
Hot Chip are suspiciously guarded with their geek pride.
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The Coathangers
The spirit of Raooul lives on in four young gals from Atlanta.
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CPC Gangbangs
Silver-faced hoser rock from Montreal’s East End.
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These Are Powers
Drumming without a stool may seem “cool” and “hard” now, but there’s nothing cool about hyperkyphosis.
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Mark Sultan
aka BBQ, aka the best one-man band in Montreal/anywhere.
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A Place to Bury Strangers
Death By Audio’s house band shows us around their studio/pedal workshop/domicile.
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Late of the Pier
Just a couple middle-class Nottingham kids in the bathtub.
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Mike Bones
Staying in for the evening with New York’s best guitarist.
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Live Fast Die
GG Allin’s musical heirs make plans to bring down the internet.
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No Age
Getting awkward with Randy Randall and Dean Spunt in a woodshop/jam space.
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Despised Icon
Larynx abuse with Quebec’s thrash-metal proteges.
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Brutal Knights
No-frills, near-perfect hardcore from Toronto’s burgeoning scene.
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Barbara
Black Lips’ Jared Swilley interviews Tel Aviv’s finest metal duo.
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I-Voice
Freestyling in a refugee camp with an 18-year-old Palestinian rapper.
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Oath to Vanquish
Oath to Vanquish are to Israel what suburban metal bands are to America.
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Demon's Claws
Rootsy rock ’n’ roll from a bunch of Montreal “liars and scumbags.”
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These New Puritans
Christian Dior’s bashful “house band” keep mum on the details.
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NX2
Tel Aviv’s NX2 digest the last three decades of British music for Israeli consumption.
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O'Death
Breaking the Americana mold with down-home city slickers in Queens.
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Lissy Trullie
Only redheaded musicians who look like Sissy Spacek can pull off the bowler.
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Odio A Botero
Going against the grain with Colombia’s notorious art-punk rabble-rousers.
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Malas Amistades
Experimental folk from a loose collective of Colombian musicians and friends.
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Vampire State
Filipino punks refuse to have the life sucked out of them by Manila’s corrupt leadership.
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Battles
Boozing it up with some of New York’s most proficient.
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Espers
Intricate psychedelic folk from a circle of Philadelphia’s finest plunkers.z
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Sweatheart
Jazzercise and J.J. Fad come together in this band of Philadelphia art freaks.
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The Honorary Title
Saccharine indie rockers prouldy share embarrassing stories about life on the road.
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A-Sides
Refined pop and unabashed voyeurism from Philly’s Fishtown.
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Clockcleaner
The most honest band in Philadelphia shits all over their contemporaries.
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Amps 4 Christ
Henry Barnes shows off his clever noisemakers and equally astute political convictions.
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Grizzly Bear
Quashing the City of Lost Children-soundtrack myth.
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Modrocket
Eating oreos with New York’s best teenage girl group.
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The Walkmen
On the humor of getting wrongfully arrested at SXSW for losing a room key.
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Jack Penate
Britain’s rising pop star is OCD about getting signed.
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1349
Delving further down the rabbit hole of Norwegian black metal.
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White Rabbits
The closest band in Brooklyn give us a tour of their loft.
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Regina Spektor
PRACTICE SPACE HOST RYAN DUFFY ON MEETING…
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Young Love
Dan Keyes is hated in the city and the country.
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El-P
Goofing off, eating shrooms, and donating his services to music-industry science.
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The Bronx
Pissing your pants because you forgot to pull them down is just the way these guys roll.
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Cheeseburger
A trio of Brooklyn dirtbags get tanked before giving it their all.
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The Virgins
Wet-behind-the-ears leisure rockers on opening for Patti Smith at their third show.
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Babyshambles
Opiate inhibitors, laser-sighted BB guns, and underrehearsal with Pete Doherty & Co.
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Monkey Son of a Donkey
Ditching the Israeli army to rock.
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Holy Fuck
Toronto’s mostly analog electronic act show us some of their gear.
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Enslaved
A basement chat with Norway’s Black Metal award winners.
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Growing
The anatomy of making glorious noise from two of Brooklyn’s biggest gearheads.
The Wizard Of The Saddle Rides Again
The dark specter of history in Memphis. 
Sisa: Cocaine Of The Poor
A new drug is tearing through Athens' poor. 
This Is What Winning Looks Like
Chaos and corruption in Afghanistan. 
On The Road With Tony Clifton
A piece of performance art outlived his creator. 
Animal Penises Are Super Weird
But cat penises are the worst. 
The Hatchet-Wielding Hobo Is Wanted For Murder
He says he was drugged and raped. 
