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Three years ago I had the worst winter of my life. I was sullen and Walkman-addicted, and I wore the same thing every day. I only listened to music I had liked when I was in high school, since it was the only other time I felt that awful. It was all...

We aren’t the first to say this, and we surely won’t be the last, but, goodness, that Italians Do It Better label knows what it’s doing. This is the New Jersey/Portland imprint that’s been getting a ridiculous amount of heat online in all the right...

If you’re a teenager living in a council estate anywhere north of Grimsby, you won’t be spending your weekends at home practicing WCW wrestling moves on your terrified cat, smoking weed, and listening to Ghetto’s new mixtape. No, instead the chances...

Introducing Black Kids, the new “buzz band”. Every couple of months a buzz band pops up, sometimes they’re good, sometimes they’re not. What unites them all is an array of attributes, no matter how trivial, that manage to get people inside the music...

Adelaide’s got a reputation for a few things (good booze, weird murders) but one of them ain’t music. Touring acts can’t be fucked going there and bands from Adelaide move to Melbourne once they’re sick of playing gigs in their grandma’s lounge room...

TWISTAAdrenaline Rush 2007Back in 2002, when Vice was basically an electroclash publication, I remember people walking around with T-shirts that said “rap sucks.” And I used to get really annoyed

It’s a bleak perspective, but most bands these days differ from each other about as much as identical twins do: not very much. It’s like, when you know the twins really well, you notice their unique qualities, but for the first couple of months you...

NINJA—850 milesBrent Todd and his family moved from Farmington, Utah, to Mill Creek, a suburb of Seattle, in April 1996, taking with them their eight-year-old tomcat, Ninja. After a week

IF YOU'RE FEELING SINISTERThis book is a bunch of bullshit. I love Belle and Sebastian more than anybody in the world probably, but here’s the thing about them: They are BORING. Beautiful music

I was going through some CDs t’other day and I found a grime compilation that my friend Matthew made for me at the end of 2003. What a great time for music it truly was. The best of times, the worst of times. Oh sorry, we’re talking about grime here...