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Guitar Moves - Blake Mills
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Guitar Moves - The Stooges' James Williamson
On the first episode of Guitar Moves, Matt Sweeney heads to Berkeley, CA to meet the Stooges' James Williamson. He learns about the history of the Stooges, the "Nashville Tuning," and how to achieve t…
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Heavy Dicks - Drinking Cough Syrup with Weedeater
This video is the first episode of our new metal show, Heavy Dicks. In it, our valiant hosts Fred Pessaro and Jake Boyle join Weedeater's Dixie Dave to sample a well-curated selection of fine cough sy…
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Parquet Courts - "Light Up Gold Road Trip" (Documentary)
Former Motherboard editor Sean Yeaton used to walk around the VICE offices carrying a Bunsen burner and saying stuff like, "Drones are the future!" Then his band, Parquet Courts, took off and he was l…
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Bot'Ox Featuring Anna Jean - "The Face of Another"
Here's an animated ditty with people wearing masks and humping each other and walking around all dazed and sad. Imagine if the audience at 'Sleep No More' started making out and then boning all over t…
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Style Stage: A Documentary About Hair, Style, and Music
Little Richard's pompadour, Michael Jackson's Jheri curl, whatever is happening on top of Diamond Rings—bands' and fans' personal styles have pushed music and culture forward in a major way. This docu…
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Snoop Lion Ft. Angela Hunte - "Here Comes the King"
We shot this video in the Trident Castle in Port Antonio, Jamaica. VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi took us there over New Year's to get the 'Reincarnated' teams of VICE and Snoop's management company, St…
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Noisey Raps - The Long Live A$AP Tour
For the first episode of 'Noisey Raps,' host Wilbert L. Cooper got unreal access to the LONGLIVEA$AP Tour, featuring performances by A$AP Rocky, Schoolboy Q, and Danny Brown, and interviews with DJ A-…
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Black Lips Tour the Middle East
Black Lips just finished a trailblazing tour of the Middle East that included shows in Lebanon, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, and Cyprus. Noisey sent a camera crew to document the band's international
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The People Vs. Action Bronson
More gorgeous than Rick Ross and apparently an extremely good gymnast, Action Bronson responds to the comments left under his music video for "The Symbol" on YouTube.
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A Christmas Message from Big Boi - The Grinch
Big Boi aka Daddy Fat Sax aka Sir Lucious Left Foot aka one half of the mighty OutKast stopped by the VICE office to entertain all the good little girls and boys with Dr. Seuss's Christmas classic, 'H…
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Danny Brown and Andrew WK's Guide to VICE Parties
VICE UK threw a party to celebrate their 10th birthday last night and it looks like things got a wee bit out of control. Andrew WK and Danny Brown were there and they recorded their very own guide to
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Turbonegro - "I Got a Knife" Music Video Premiere
VICE's own Andy Capper got all stabby with the Norwegian deathpunk psychos, Turbonegro, for the music video of their new single "I Got a Knife." Andy directed the video on the Lower East Side and had
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Music Video Premiere: Leo Justi - "O Homen Mau (Sniper Queen)"
Patrolling the rooftops of Rio de Janeiro, Sniper Queen wears his unmistakable fur coat and shiny wrestling tights, portraying himself as a superhero with a sniper rifle.
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Zombie Toddlers Own the Streets in HEALTH's New Short Film
HEALTH has teamed with directors David Altobelli and Jeff Desom to produce a short film structured around "Tears," a cut off the soundtrack for 'Max Payne 3.' Just in time for Halloween (and Hurricane…
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Die Antwoord - "Fatty Boom Boom"
"Fatty Boom Boom" is a bright and colorful African adventure, complete with wild animals, zef savages singing and dancing in the streets, and a special guest appearance by a sneaky little prawn star.
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One Man Metal
We interviewed three enigmatic solo artists—Leviathan, Striborg, and Xasthur—who produce black metal on the margins of society. These are men who don’t just play the music, but also embody what it ref…
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Do Cute Cats Like Gangnam Style?
The entire Internet is losing its hive mind for K-Pop genius Psy and his breakout hit, "Gangnam Style." But here's the thing: The Internet is like 99% cats. So we decided to ask a bunch of adorable wi…
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24 Hours with Odd Future in NYC
Noisey followed Tyler, the Creator and the Odd Future crew around NYC for a day. The guys heckled tourists in Times Square, raised hell at MTV's studios, and rolled around town on those goddamned skat…
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Tusson - “Oh Gosh / We Run the Road”
Last week we premiered the new video for Vybz Kartel’s 'My Crew,' which is from the Mixpak / VICE release 'Kingston Story.' After we’d finished making that track, one of the guys from Gaza approached…
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Vybz Kartel - "My Crew" (Official Video)
This video was shot by Danilo Parra and VICE Global Editor Andy Capper, who told us they put this thing together on a budget of "like $200." They produced the video way out in the Portmore area of Kin…
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Through the Woods
Watch Radiohead perform "Daily Mail" at Bonnaroo in a video that takes you from the woods outside the festival, right up to the stage during their breathtaking performance.
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Cute Kids Moshing to Black Flag
In maybe the best You Review yet, we gave little kids "beer" and taught them how to smash the state and circle the pit.
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We Got High with Snoop Lion
This week, Snoop Dogg dropped a historic announcement on the world: His new name is Snoop Lion and now he's a reggae star. VICE's Wilbert L. Cooper was there to chat up the crowd, meet the players, an…
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Azealia Banks: Behind-the-Scenes of Her "Liquorice" Video
On the set of her first "expensive-looking" music video, chatting with the 20-year-old about her meteoric rise.
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Pearls of Wisdom with A$AP Rocky and Danny Brown
Danny Brown and A$AP Rocky sat down at Primavera to discuss picking up girls on Facebook, real MDMA, and the hassles of being in the music industry.
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Curren$y Knows His Food in NYC
Noisey caught up with the New Orleans Spitta at Bubby's in NYC, which happens to be his favorite place to eat when he's stoned.
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Killer Mike's "Big Beast" Video Premiere
The anthem for the 2012 zombie apocalypse.
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EL-P - "The Full Retard"
Noisey premiered the video for "Full Retard" from El-P's new album 'Cancer for Cure.'
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A-Trak & Dillon Francis - "Money Makin'"
Get funky, Mr. ATM machine.
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What Do Cute Kids Think About Skrillex?
Despite his trans-continental fame, multiple Grammy wins, and nearly perfect 'do, a lot of people still don't know what to make of Skrillex. With that in mind, we asked our panel of adorable tots, tyk…
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We Talked to NOFX About Raising Children
NOFX has been around for almost 30 years, and they continue to make new punk bands look like they're all trying too hard.
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No Joy
Stacking fuzzed-out guitar upon fuzzed-out guitar, Quebecois grungers No Joy produce the sort of no-frills riffage that the bland nu-gaze establishment sorely needs. We saw No Joy at the Casa Del Popo…
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Dillon
Dominique Dillon de Byington is the German songstress known as Dillon. Blending together a subdued palette of electronica, baroque chamber-pop, and limited orchestration, the 23 year-old has crafted a…
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FIDLAR
You can't take FIDLAR at their word. Like Nathan Williams from Wavves, this LA quartet champions a slacker lifestyle with the fervor of religious zealots; "Wake! Bake! Skate!" howls frontman Zac Carpe…
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Kill For Total Peace
Bands get labeled "psychedelic" for a bunch of different reasons. Sometimes it's because they wear bandanas. Sometimes it's because they smoke weed. For Parisian quintet Kill For Total Peace, it's pro…
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Tom Vek
Tom Vek is back. After a six-year sabbatical from the limelight, the London-based "beat rock" specialist has reemerged with a new album and a new lease on life. Properly tweaked for the 21st century,
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YACHT
YACHT is Jona Bechtold and Claire L. Evans, a power duo that traffics in breathless, upbeat electro-pop. Onstage they channel the vibrant, earnest joy of Stop Making Sense-era Talking Heads, with an a…
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Turbowolf
This British four-piece has blown the cobwebs off the UK rock scene with high-octane shows that trade in crunchy, dinosaur-shaped riffs, the death-or-glory spirit of DFA1979, and the pantomime stage a…
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Meet Lady Chann
Lady Chann, formerly known as Chanelle Williams, got her start in the Suncycle Crew, a North London squad of the best talent around. They built up a serious rep, using dancehall as a reference point i…
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Spoon
No one's gonna mistake Spoon for the Stones, but it's worth remembering that they've been around a while: Telephono, the Austin guitar-pop outfit's first LP, came out in April of 1996, a few months be…
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Soviet Pop
Calling themselves a "sound-based oscillator duo," the members of Soviet Pop shape electrical currents into pulsating anti-hits. Androgynous soulmates Li Qing and Li Weisi formed the band in Beijing i…
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Uncapped - The Rassle
The Rassle show us around their adopted hometown of Brooklyn and tell us what it's like being a band in New York. Then we head to the bar Union Pool where they fire up the audience with their triumpha…
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TV Buddhas
A few years back, Juval and his girlfriend Mickey were living together in Tel Aviv, spending most of their days on the couch, watching TV, gradually lapsing into slack-jawed alienation--the sort of ro…
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Uncapped - Reading Rainbow
The D.I.Y. rockers in Philadelphia's Reading Rainbow took us around their neighborhood of Fishtown to check out The Little Bar, their appropriately named home away from home. After that we headed to J…
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Veronica Falls
Few bands have run with the classic sound of mid-80s British lo-fi indie-pop quite like Veronica Falls. Their doom-laden musical vision meshes romance, tragedy, and energy to C86-era audio stylings. T…
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Male Bonding
Like the best modern rock 'n' roll myths, British punk-pop trio Male Bonding met during a stint working in a record shop. "It was Reckless Records in London," explains guitarist and singer John, "and
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Za!
We know a lot of opinionated people, but we don't know anybody who doesn't like Za! Over the past four years, Papa du Pau and Spazzfrica Ed (best pseudonyms you've ever heard, right?) have been schlep…
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Two Gallants
The title characters in James Joyce's short story "Two Gallants" are a couple of jerks, scam artists cheating an unsuspecting woman out of some change. It's tough to square this portrait with Two Gall…
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Gross Magic
Sam McGarrigle mines the same eccentric territory as Ariel Pink, but with more humor and a lot less baggage.
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Bass Drum of Death
Mississippi's Bass Drum Of Death got the lo-fi treatment at first, but when you listen to their layered recordings you'll hear influences from punk, garage, and rock 'n' roll, combined in a sonic Long…
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Shapes Have Fangs
Live at the Mohawk, Shapes Have Fangs deftly continued that Austin psych tradition.
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Sundress
Sundress transmutes the rain-soaked realities of their canonized shoegaze godfathers into a sound that reflects the Lone Star State.
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Meet Nisennenmondai
Nisennenmondai is to rock music what the 'Y2K' bug was to technological Armageddon.
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The Harlequins
This week Cincinnati's retro garage rockers The Harlequins took us around town to visit their favorite hot spots.
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Meet Theophilus London
Dell & Intel's Special Engagements is a new kind of live music series that brings the best bands on the planet to unique venues all over the world.
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Big Business
Some might have thought that the pair would ditch Big Business and focus on their new gig full-time, but instead, Warren and Willis cemented their identity as a duo, opening for the Melvins on a serie…
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Weakness
Splitting their time between Cincinnati and Columbus, OH, Weakness epitomizes the DIY spirit that has always defined the region.
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Wampire
Wampire showed us around Portland as we crisscrossed the bridges of the northwest indie rock capital. Later that night the psychedelic dance-rock trio turned their hometown crowd into a sweaty, ecstat…
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Criolo
Criolo built his reputation in the São Paulo hip-hop underground. Alongside DJ DanDan, he’s been financing and hosting the Rinha dos MC’s, an infamous local freestyle battle.
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Purple Rhinestone Eagle
On this week’s episode of Uncapped, Purple Rhinestone Eagle, the black clad high volume three-piece coven hailing from Portland, OR, convened at the Woods in their hometown to blast out a potent…
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Theophilus London - Director's Cut
Here it is, the director's cut of Dell & Intel's first ever Special Engagement. Live from the Lustre Pearl in Austin with the Brooklyn-bred hip-hop prodigy Theophilus London, hosted by Telli Federline…
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Meet Young Lovers
The Thermals-tapped Younger Lovers guide us through their creamerie-turned-house/recording studio/practice space/sometimes-DIY-showspace and explain their family history with Eli’s Mile High blu…
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Meet the Offset: Spectacles
The Offset: Spectacles are probably the most stubborn band in Beijing.
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Marvin
To get a good sense of Marvin, try reorienting your thinking to the early 60s, when vocal-less outfits like the Ventures privileged high-energy fun over experimentation.
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Birthday Suits
Twin Cities punk rock duo Birthday Suits take us cruising around town before bringing their high voltage live show to a legendary Minneapolis venue.
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Mannequin Men
Mannequin Men, Chicago’s garage rock fixtures, took us on a tour of the Second City. After a quick peek at their 9-to-5s and favorite local haunts, we made our way to the Viaduct Theater. Packed…
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Mujeres
The Black Lips may be responsoible for kickstarting the garage-rock movement in the US, but Mujeres is spreading that rough-hewn gospel across Spain.
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Das Racist
Unless they've been kicked out of a venue, Das Racist is loved wherever they go, and Seattle is no exception.
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2UP
What started as images of 2UP became images about Sendai, and the devastating effect that the Tohoku earthquake had on the city.
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Mogwai
Mogwai have built a career that's spanned over fifteen years, standing firm as the UK's sonic landscape oscillates from guitars to synths and back again.
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Hedgehog
Hedgehog's jangly, noise-kissed rock descends from grunge and artier elders like the Cure and R.E.M., but trades world-weariness for wide-eyed enthusiasm.
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Averikou
Florida's Averikou is proudly spearheading a new lineage of shoegaze bands.
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Bo Ningen
Bo Ningen has risen up to tear a sonic hole through the heart of live music in the UK capital.
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The Future Now
We capped off our day about town with The Future Now by catching their set at The Atlantic, a cozy venue deep in downtown Gainesville.
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PK 14
P.K. 14, often described as China's most influential band, plays a blend of straight-up punk dosed with a sensible hit of experi-rock play.
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Gross Ghost
At The Cave, a well known rock-and-roll venue in the heart of downtown Chapel Hill, Gross Ghost captivated us with their catchy tunes and charismatic personalities.
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Last Year's Men
In early March of this year, Noisey and vitaminwater took a trip down to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to hang with uber-talented rising band, Last Year's Men.
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Austra
Austra is built around singer and principal songwriter Katie Stelmanis, who career in opera was sidetracked by an obsession with Nine Inch Nails and Bjork records.
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Mannequin Men
Mannequin Men, Chicago's garage rock fixtures, took us on a tour of the Second City.
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Uncapped - Mannequin Men
Mannequin Men, Chicago’s garage rock fixtures, took us on a tour of the Second City.
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Noisey Cheveu
Since coming together in the summer of 2003, the trio has routinely channeled the mundane into something charmingly surreal.
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2UP
What started as images of 2UP became images about Sendai, and the devastating effect that the Tōhoku earthquake had on the city.

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