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Talking About Knives and Fascism with Iceage

Sitting down with Iceage's Johan Surrballe Wieth and Jakob Tvilling Pless, it became clear that they're neither McLaren-esque media manipulators or closeted white supremacists—just a group of talented musicians who don't see the need to engage in critical self-reflection. Full story

Weediquette

Finding Weed on Tour

When I’m not sitting at home in my easy chair, puffing on a corncob pipe and ruminating on what captivating aspect of the marijuana world I’m going to traverse in the next "Weediquette," I indulge in the classic childhood fantasy of being a rock star. Full story

Video Home Syndrome

Advocate of VHS, videographer John Kelley, documents Brooklyn band, Total Slacker. Full story

Glenn Danzig

Most performers have to span a gap between their public image and their private life, but Glenn Danzig has to jump between two distinct public versions of himself. Think of the disconnect between the cheesy camp of his Mother video and the lurid power of the song itself. Full story

We Have The Internet And Planes

Native Cats Are Cool With Being A Tasmanian Band

There's a commonly held belief that Tasmania is a barren landscape. That it's devoid of culture, suitable only for heathen farmhands and sibling fornicators. Hobart's Native Cats play straight forward trance-inducing pop that pretty much shatters this horseshit. Full story

My Brother Was in a Chinese Boy Band

In 2001, my older brother Rich went to Beijing. Once there, he lied about his age, changed his name to Jun (which means handsome in Chinese), and started a pop group. Their biggest hit was a song called "Get On Up and Get Down," which they performed in front of millions. Full story

We Want War

Matthew Stone and These New Puritans Talk About Fashion and Art and Music

Matthew Stone is an artist who was a founder of the south London !WOWOW! collective and has exhibited his work internationally. These New Puritans are so loved by Planet Fashion that Hedi Slimane got them to soundtrack his 2007 Dior Homme show. Full story

Artful Meanderings

A Back and Forth with Jane Badler

Jane Badler is easily best known for her role as Diana in the 80s sci-fi series, V, where she played a villainous alien lizard posing on earth as a friendly, stunning-looking human. The specific scene she's best remembered for is one in which she swallows a whole, live, hamster. Full story

Brix Smith

In the 1980s, Brix Smith was best known as a guitarist in The Fall, and as the wife of its frontman Mark E. Smith, whom she divorced. Brix was one of very few women in British indie at a time when it was still any good. Full story

Dicksplosion!

A Visit With Seminal Band Fuck Me in My Condo

In 1983, three boys from Lindsfield, New Jersey, named Anthony Bazzo, Joey Roach, and Chris "Lil'Chris" Thames formed the postpunk band Fuck Me in My Condo. Their path to success included huge crests and valleys, but thankfully they all lived to tell the tale. Full story