The Harvester of Sorrow Issue
Fast Times
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...
Vice Mail
Have you ever run anything on Tibetan thighbone trumpets? They’re a ritualistic instrument made from the thighbone of a dead man and are used in Tibetan ceremonies; purportedly the sound they make is of the suffering of the dead in hell. I have
Video Games Killed The Radio Star
CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARELet’s get one thing straight right from the start here: I am a total, utter, disgusting Call of Duty 3 addict. I slip on that Xbox 360 headset, log on to a multiplayer game
Noodle Doodles
In 2005, the pretty famous Glaswegian artist David Shrigley released Worried Noodles (The Empty Sleeve)—a 12-inch record sleeve with no record inside, just a booklet of doodles and lyrics. The doodles were things like a man with a giant bottom...
vice Presents The People's Lists
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
Hyped Up The Ass
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...
Literary
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
Mystery Man
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...
Tramps Like Them
Sprung from cages on Highway 9, Hemi-powered drones screamed down the boulevard making tracks through the blazin' rain from the fire roads to the interstate highways jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive somewhere in the swamps of...
Triple Ecstasy
So I made friends with a porn star. Her name is Kimberly Kane. It’s pretty awesome. She comes over for dinner twice a week and wears nothing but heels.
Chick Magnets
It’s a shitty, raining Thursday outside of the Sydney Entertainment Centre and a bored crowd is milling around on stained concrete. It’s some four hours before The Gallows are due to play alongside Aiden and The Used in the Taste of Chaos tour and the...