VICE MUSIC

Fiending To Get Off

In a rap game teeming with hungry MCs fiending to get put on, Invincible's story is all about fiending to get off. At 17 she came to NYC from Ann Arbor, MI, and hung out at the Lyricist Lounge, eventually joining the all-female Anomolies posse. She stayed for the next three years and blew everyone's fucking mind with some of the illest freestyling ever. Full story

Space Crystals 2000

Space Crystals 2000 are from the northern Germany and manage to combine intensity and a tendency towards melancholy. Full story

Electrotrash - The Second Coming

And the Pants are Off!

Is electroclash dead? Has it been reborn as electrotrash? Did a lack of serious musical credibility kill its momentum, or has its lightheartedness given it longevity? Full story

Skate Or Destroy

Aaron Dilloway, John Olson, and Michael Troutman live together in Ann Arbor, skateboard every day, and play in a band aptly named Violent Ramp. Full story

Reign in Hell

Death metal is back. Where the fuck did it go? "It never went anywhere," shrugs Hate Eternal's Jared Anderson. "It's angry music, and it belongs where it is. This way it stays pure. Purity is very important." Full story

Coke, Booze, and Bitches

We're in Dresden, the once beautiful East German city that was flattened by Allied bombers during World War II and later blighted by grimly functional Communist architecture. Full story

Unlimited Edition

To be anything but white in Hungary is to be seriously vexed. Full story

Electric Independence

VICE never made it to to the special CHAPMAN BROS All Tomorrow's Parties down in Camber Sands but we heard good things about it. Everyone who witnessed it says the freakiest incident happened during Peaches' performance when she started crowd-surfing while doing "Fuck The Full story

Get Fucked Then Fuck Shit The Fuck Up

UK Tech House Duo Have Three Meanings For The F-Word

"I'm really fed up with all these people," says Nils Hess, the angry half of London tech-housers Get Fucked. He pauses before continuing, so for a second it seems like a sweeping indictment of everyone, everywhere. "All these people," he finally adds, "who are ruining house music… Full story

Too Drunk To Rock

Crack, Marijuana, Shrooms, Coke, Ecstasy, Mescaline, Anacin and Hennesey Is All The Wu-Tang Clan Got

If crack vials were ghosts, ODB would be Pac-Man. After being caught with a pocket full of marijuana and various other Schedule III narcotics, there's no question where Full story

Don't Call It A Cumback

70s Punk Chicks Kleenex Get Re-released

You know what's really fun? when you think you know everything about something, say a topic like the history of women in punk rock, and you're like "Shit, now I know everything; there's no way I'm ever gonna be pleasantly surprised, let alone completely blown away, ever again. Be… Full story

From Riches To Doo Rags

The Alchemist Turns Gold Into Hot Shit

Growing up in the 90210 can be a struggle... especially if you want to make it in the rap biz. As a fourteen year-old aspiring MC, The Alchemist couldn't share the mic with DJ Quik or MC Ren, so he formed a group with James Caan's son, called The Whooliganz. They didn't exactly i… Full story

Sound Of The Pirates

The War Between Drum and Bass and Garage is Finally Over

Saturday night, February 24. A sweaty underground club in the UK heaves with an impatient crowd waiting for Kosheen, the live/vocal drum and bass act that, like every new talent, has been hailed as "the one that will save drum and bass." A quick scan of the crowd reveals precisel… Full story

The Heart And Soul Of A New Machine

Bogdan Raczynski's Sickeningly Sweet Love Songs

Bogdan Raczynski, whose musical output up to now has been some all-well-and-good skittery techno on Aphex Twin's Rephlex label, has just released a bona fide masterpiece.
If Steven Spielberg had half a brain, he would have hired Bogdan to compose the score for A.I. - Artifi… Full story