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VICE MUSIC

  • Life Sans Music

    Two Weeks of Voluntary Silence

    As I write this, I am recovering from spending two weeks without hearing music of any sort. Two. Fucking. Weeks. It’s been awful, really awful, and, for the most part, mind-bendingly depressing Full story

    2010 Aug 1 Ben Cohen, Neil Buckingham Music
    5

  • Kara-not-ok

    A Moment of Silence for the Karaoke Bar Employee

    Karaoke rooms are like pressure cookers for bad behavior. Evidently, something about being locked in a confined space with a bunch of overpriced alcohol and a machine that amplifies your warbling brings out the worst in people. I know this because over the past six or so years I&… Full story

    2010 Aug 1 Briony Wright, Natalie Nikitovic Music
    5

  • All Music Is Shit To God

    Music is so embedded in all aspects of culture today that one rarely pauses to question the validity of the form itself. But is music even a legitimate form of art? Is it even possible to discuss without using a single adjective? (An interesting parlor game, as Roland Barthes poi… Full story

    2010 Aug 1 Anthony Berryman, Rick Froberg Music
    5

  • The Boot

    Hey guys! We should all hang out like this more often! Full story

    2010 Aug 1 Sam McPheeters, C. DeWitt Music
    5

  • Nap(ster) Attack!

    Burning Down the Internet’s Original Library of Alexandria

    INTERVIEWS BY ELLIS JONES … Full story

    2010 Aug 1 Ellis Jones Music
    5

  • Bootlegging Inc.

    The Golden Age of Music Piracy

    INTERVIEW BY MILES RAYMER ILLUSTRATION BY JIM KREWSON In 1969, two young hip… Full story

    2010 Aug 1 Miles Raymer, Jim Krewson Music
    5

  • Downloading Some Bullshit

    An Interview With the President of the RIAA

    Many, many people believe that the Recording Industry Association of America is a giant hairy tumor on the neck of the music business. Many people further feel that this disgusting malignancy has slowly spread its cancerous wrath across the public domain in recent years. Over the… Full story

    2010 Aug 1 Rocco Castoro Music
    5

  • Closed Frontier

    Is Rock Over?

    It’s odd to think of the Wild West as something that could be “closed,” like a cardboard box or a failed department store. And yet the 1890 US Census did precisely this, with the audacious announcement that the government would no longer tabulate western migrati… Full story

    2010 Aug 1 Sam McPheeters, Laura Park Music
    5

  • Fear Of Music

    Melophobia Is Real!

    Do you know someone who says they don’t like music? Someone who doesn’t own a single CD or an iPod? Are they always turning the radio down? And when pressed on the subject, do they shrug and say they don’t really “get” music? Never could quite figure… Full story

    2010 Aug 1 Mark Allen, Tara Sinn Music
    5

  • On The Misuse Of Music

    Music in modernity has heretofore been seen not just as an instrument for pleasure but also as a tool for achieving greater social justice (see Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror” or Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land”). Due to these dua… Full story

    2010 Aug 1 Ian F. Svenonius, Nicholas Gazin Music
    5

  • Meet CSS

    Full story

    2010 Jul 27 Music
    5

  • Gonz and Hosoi

    The twin kings of vert- and street-skating trade mutual praise. Full story

    2010 Jul 23 Music
    5

  • Dead Moon

    Fred and Toody Cole are part of the Greatest Generation of Rockers. Full story

    2010 Jul 23 Music
    5

  • Meet Neon Indian

    Sonic revisionist. Full story

    2010 Jul 23 Music
    5