The Special Issue
Tidbits
VICE just opened a new store in New York. The address is 255 Lafayette (across from X-Large and down from Supreme) and it's got way more stuff in it than the other stores. Here are nine Tidbits we randomly grabbed from the shelves next to the...
Vice Fashion - Rap Dreams
If you know anything about the working class of Brooklyn, the Bronx, or Queens, you you know their obsession with child rappers. The same way moms in Wisconsin enter their daughters in beauty pageants and help them with their routines, Bushwick moms...
Electric Independence
Even though the hottest Now Wave acts like Fischerspooner and Chicks On Speed are being praised for re-injecting fun into electronic music, some of the best live shit I’ve seen recently wasn’t performed by humans at all. The User is a Montreal duo made...
Dear Diary
I saw Ben and Ryan last night. I think I like Ben better but I'm not sure how he feels about me. Ryan and I were flirting a lot more. Then I had a dream about Christian. I don't know what to do.
Barfing with a Boner
Pornography gets you hard. The New Pornography gets you hard and makes you want to simultaneously vomit and beat someone to a pulp.
Calling All Bitches
Streets hail from Vancouver, the global capital of heroin and acid. They play straight-up skate punk-rad-ass stuff to which you can drink beer, pogo, rip up ramps, or get arrested for trespassing.
Yakuza Noise Terror
Yasumi Okano and Takayuki Shouji are a couple of mysterious music nerds from Oita, Japan, who describe themselves as a "tender, strange, spiritual, violent band." And as Xinlisupreme, they've built a psychosexual robot-whore composed of Merzbow's torso...
Off the Pig
Japanther is one of the hardest fucking bands in Brooklyn right now. They sound like Iron Maiden, Throbbing Gristle, and Lightning Bolt gave birth to a squealing little baby with flaming guitars for arms. Their shows are chaotic and danger-charged...