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VICE Presents The Fashion Issue Launch

A little while ago we pledged to throw a party every month. It made perfect sense to shack up in one of our favourite venues, The Liberty Social. But just to keep you on your pretty little toes we’re moving to the Tote Full story

Stories You Won’t Hear While Shopping for Music Online: Kill Bill

Tanya, a manager at a record store, performed in a Blondie cover band, wore hangover sunglasses indoors, and was obsessed with serial killers. So much so that she was convinced her co-worker was one. Full story

Your Scene Is Cashed

All this work and striving and grief is background to a “thing on the internet that rifled around the world and was forgotten forever in a matter of hours,” which is EVERYTHING FROM NOW ON. Full story

We Saw This: Night Spa

When I told my editor that the people behind the Turrbotax parties that regularly provide weird Brooklyn club kids with a place to assemble and look cool were throwing a party at a spa that was to include not only a full bar, but saunas and a hot tub, I could tell she was thinkin… Full story

We Interviewed Yoko Ono on Her 80th Birthday

On Monday, Yoko Ono celebrated her 80th birthday with an art show and two concerts in Germany. We interviewed her about why art is important and what wishes she has left. Full story

Tour Stories

Pocket Sex

Ever have someone pocket dial you? It’s usually one of your female friends, and then you’ll get that callback later like, “Omg! I can’t believe I pocket dialed you! Imagine if I was like having sex or something?” And you both laugh because that would be so unlikely and so absurd… Full story

Britain's Nazi Punk Scene Is Alive and Limping

Bald fascists with guitars are still playing awful, hateful music in Britain's pubs. Full story

Chunklet to Go Go

Best Musical Questions for the 21st Century—Kim Fowley Interviews Chris Darrow

In this revelatory meeting of the minds: two visionaries converge as Kim Fowley quizzes longtime friend Chris Darrow providing a music history lesson and questions galore that run the gamut from Facebook, drug use, alcohol, and fast food. Full story

VICE Premiere: Prism House's "Need You (Part I)"

Prism House is a weird, Brooklyn-based electronic duo. VICE spoke with Prism House member Brian Wenner to discuss the duo’s debut EP 'Reflections,' 8-bit sounds, and how they can't make good music when they're stoned. Full story

We saw the Dead C and HTRK at I’ll Be Your Mirror

The boutique music festival ATP happened this weekend and while you can’t argue that it wasn't a million times more pleasant than the Cronulla Riots with bands that is larger festivals like Big Day Out, it still remains an unsettling experience knowing you’re surrounded by thousa… Full story

A Letter From Chopper to my Sister

Back in the ‘90s my sister was a PR hound for a bunch of of Australian record labels. She worked in converted car-hold office spaces all over Melbourne and when I was 13 she roped me in to pack CDs for her. Most of those bands and labels don’t exist anymore, but one who stuck it… Full story

We Saw This: Psychic Ills

I'm a little disappointed—that 1) I bought and ingested what might have just been FunDip in a plastic cap but moreso 2) that Psychic Ills played such a short set. Just as I, the crowd, and the band sank into a captivating groove, they pulled the plug. Psychic Ills live in Brookly… 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

Scout Niblett Spreads Love and a New Album

It's Valentine's Day, and while that may not mean anything to you, it does mark a perfectly good occasion to announce Scout Niblett's new album, which comes out on May 21st on Drag City. Full story