VICE Music Specials

The America We Used to Hear

We asked a couple of Kenyan dudes what they thought about their countryman and then-future-president Obama’s shot in the election. Here’s what all they had to say.

A Very, Very Important Q&A With American Idol Judge Kara Dioguardi

We threw the best prank caller in the world on this fucking American Idol call. He only got one question in among the robots and shit stains, but it’s a funny one. Full story

Two Mexican Windshield Washers

Everyone hates fucking windshield washers. Except us. We think they are just the cutest little pariahs we ever did see. Or at least we did until we hung out with a couple of them. Full story

A Semi-transient Expert On Hobos

Filmmaker and photographer Bill Daniel documents the graffiti that hobos write on freight trains. Do you do anything anywhere near as old-timey as that? Full story

An Ex-Bullfighter

A bull named Terciopelo [Velvet] gored the Colombian bullfighter Álvaro Múnera, aka “El Pilarico,” in 1984, confining him to a wheelchair for life. Full story

A Couple Of Hippies Who Think They Can Get Plants To Play Music

Founded in 1975, Damanhur is a self-sufficient and eco-friendly commune located amid the rolling hills and the exclusive rehab clinics in the valley of Val Chiusella, outside Turin, Italy. Full story

An Interview with a Lady Who Is a Urologist

So there's this very cute Italian girl who happens to be a professional urologist, which means that she handles cocks all day, every day. From seven in the morning to seven in the evening, she checks out cocks. Let's talk to her. About cocks. Full story

A Puppet Master

Here’s what you do: You eat yourself some mushrooms and then you go on down to the Bob Baker Marionette Theater in downtown LA and have yourself a magical little experience. Full story

Three Older Kids We Thought Were Cool In High School

Memories of tattoos, hardcore, and breaking into classrooms. Full story

A Woman Who Made A Documentary About Vaginoplasty

Recently, Heather plunged herself headfirst into the murky world of vaginoplasty, or “voluntarily having a plastic surgeon chop off your labia.” Full story

A Guy Who Was A Test-tube Baby

Around 30 years ago, some guy jerked off into a cup and the sperm was frozen until a team of doctors dethawed it and injected it into some lady's egg that was in a petri dish or something. Full story

Terry Jones

You probably think of Monty Python as a symbol of the sad, forced eccentricity your uptight gay British dad used to display when he was in a cheery mood or when he was drunk on schnapps. Full story

An Interview with a Mexican Coke Dealer

Julián is a coke dealer. He’s 44. He’s been working Mexico City for two decades. He agreed to take us on a ride-along as he worked. The phone never stopped ringing, not for a minute. Full story

A Chaos Magician

In the mid-70s two guys named Peter J. Carroll and Ray Sherwin claimed the ability to alter the subatomic interactions of the quantum universe through gnosis and divination. Full story