The News From All Over Issue
Records
T.I. T.I. vs. T.I.P."Big Things Poppin'" is a great record, but the rest of the album? Meh. Tell you the truth, this guy is overrated. I think people just like him cuz he's light-skinned
Il Duce Bags
Ever heard of a place called Predappio? Wow, it's weird. We came across it by accident when travelling through central Italy on holiday last month.
Streaking in the City
Photos by Jonnie Craig The British weather has been bad all summer so the first sunny day we got I got drunk with some friends and we went streaking in the centre
Drum Dream
On 7/7/07, the Boredoms put on a crazy, already-legendary concert under the Brooklyn Bridge with 77 drummers spiraling out from a humongous guitar gong that Boredoms leader Yamataka Eye struck with a giant trident scepter. It was, according to all who...
This Ain't Dad Rock
Blues Control are a two-piece New York entity who, like their music, are slowly and steadily building steam, creating mind-bending music on their own terms. Formed in January 2006 as a tongue-in-cheek side project to Watersports (an improvisational new...
Adaptable Band
Four years ago Kill Boogie were called Solar Crete. Back then the three-piece lived in Brisbane, in a house where Kylie Minogue filmed part of The Delinquents. When their original bassist (a trained sax player) left, awesome guitarist Thomas Madden was...
Doomsday Metal
The connection between extreme metal and Eddie Meduza, the lewd god of homemade, Swedish slapstick music, is muddy at best. Still, a lot of metalheads secretly worship him, and there are devoted fans in bands like Hypocrisy and Necrophobic. Maybe it's...
The Birth Of Trance-hop
I remember reading a Lil Jon interview a few years ago where he was talking about how ecstasy was seeping into the Dirty South hip-hop scene, mainly through strip clubs. What happened was club owners would give girls pills to keep them dancing all...
Vice Pictures - Your Logo Here (and Here, And Here, And Here)
Photos by Deanna TempletonPhotographer Deanna Templeton recently began documenting a trend
We Got Out
I met these three people in a nine-story Christian church for North Korean refugees in Seoul. I don't know the church's name; the reverend told me just to call it Seoul Church.