The Sundaes Issue
New Beginnings
Larry Jon Wilson is the first person you see when you watch Heartworn Highways, the definitive documentary of the outlaw country movement of the mid-70s led by heroes like Townes Van Zandt and Steve Earle.
Oh Shit!
We simply had to know if we could convince a few strangers to put on diapers and swallow a bunch of laxatives and have a contest to see who would shit first (or last).
Four New Grime Kids
Grime is going through a bit of a make-or-break period right now. Most of the better MCs have long given up trying to be grimey and are now doing pop songs with 80s revivalists and covering the Ting Tings (Dizzee) or taking their shirts off in videos...
Literary
CRIME—A SERIES OF EXTRAORDINARY INTERVIEWS EXPOSING THE WORLD OF CRIME—REAL AND IMAGINED As you’d expect of a book designed by the guys who made those Russian
Records
THE FIERY FURNACES Remember Whoa, is this really what this band sounds like? I’d just assumed it was your garden variety, Pitchfork-approved yoghurt music for young adult t-shirt wearers
A-town Rep-razent!
Sorry, jaded white guy who professes to like rap music but can't remember the other guy's name out of Mobb Deep, but we love Soulja Boy. Since when did rap music being fun and goofy again become a bad thing? Ah yes, since out-of-touch old men like Ice...
Chesty Preggos
You want to know what the best part about a dead baby is? No dirty diapers. No diapers at all really. No money spent on formula. No painting bedrooms pink or blue.
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
What happened to Capricorns? Out of that slew of metallic instrumental groups of the last five years they were easily the most interesting, probably by virtue of the fact they played songs that had more than one riff and tempo and didn't have to have...
Vice Mail
You know what? No letters page this month. You know why? Because we aren't receiving enough real letters.