Volume 14 Issue 10
Go With The Flow
Right now, New York bands come in two flavours. There's the Brooklyn groups that all have Neanderthal beards, plaid shirts and want to sound like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Then there's the angel-faced Manhattan pixies that want to sound like The...
Don't Tell A Soul
As some poet guy has surely said at some point, "All women are big piles of secrets on two legs." Or as the dwarf in Twin Peaks told Agent Dale Cooper in reference to Laura Palmer, "She's full of secrets." What that little dwarf meant is that every...
A Girl's Life
Vice recently asked me to become a normal girl for a week and document it. I guess a big reason they asked me to do it is because I take a lot of self-portraits and I can come across as a pretty disgusting person. I have a horrible sense of...
Mystery Blonde
Sometimes you just can't do without shimmery synths, plastic drums and easy melodies that snuggle up in your ear and just won't let go. That's right, the world needs Italo, and everything that comes with it, ie. neon dancefloors, dry ice, puffy sleeves...
Condoms
Fuck a condom. I hate condoms. Always have. I have an allergic reaction to them: The mere sight of them makes me go limp. I think if I cut two of my fingers off with a circular saw I could still count on both hands the number of times I've worn a...
Lingerie Party
You'd imagine those parties where "adult lifestyle" company reps come over to your house to flog frilly knickers and sex toys to be a prudish affair involving frumpy, middle-aged, middle class women mortified by the thought of coming into contact with...
No Girls Allowed
After being rap's number-one media darlings for about three years and releasing two impeccable mixtapes, Clipse put out Hell Hath No Fury, arguably the best album of 2006. So why does it seem like you need a penis to enjoy what they do? Back in high...
Norse Goddess Of Destruction
Anyone backwards enough to still claim that girl vocals have no place in metal never heard Runnhild Gammelsæter. Way back in 1995, at the tender age of 16, she provided ruinous voice to groups like Thorr's Hammer, of which Sunn0)))'s Greg Anderson was...
Vice Mail
PALAHNIUK PAROXYSMRe: Your Fiction Issue. Chuck Palahniuk seems to be using a lot of the tried and true techniques that gained him his career, but it’s time to move on. Think bigger.
Why Girls Go To The Bathroom Together
Mapei moved to Sweden when she was about 10 and ended up getting a total culture shock. Now she's stuck halfway between being a serious adult and a happy-go-lucky Sesame Street kid. The result has turned her into a rapping rainbow with a sound like a...