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Where the good things live | Quote of the Day, August 10: “Some of the ravers chant for the music to restart”
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Kill Karl, pictured on the sleeve for his 2025 album “Suck on My Album”. This artful combination of language and visual is precisely what curious newcomers can expect to find in his TikTok videos and entire creative output, which taken as a whole can be read as an act of extreme provocation This Guy Makes the Worst Music of All Time
Fusing musical theater with comedy rap metal, Kill Karl is the final boss of “co-worker music,” a genre worse than your job makes you feel.
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All photos by Mattha Busby Why Do People Keep Dying at This Week-Long Psytrance Festival?
A 45-year-old just plunged to his death at Ozora. VICE spoke to bosses, witnesses, and a man who survived a similar fall just two days earlier.
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Pictures by Nick Dove I Went to a ‘Torture Party’ With Polyamorous Bay Area Rationalists
That feeling when you drink too much Everclear to get waterboarded at the San Francisco “Torture Potluck”.
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Sam Quealy DJing at Silencio, one night after news broke of Kavinsky's death. All photos by Alaska Ragenard (@alaska___r) Nights of Solitude and Speed: Paris Remembers Kavinsky
VICE went to Silencio to watch a city pay its respects to the legendary hometown DJ who passed away this week.
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“Glad U Came“ by Liilz Feat. ZieZie has been called “the ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ of UK poo” Stop Getting ‘UK Poo’ Wrong: A Guide to Britain’s Newest (and Worst?) Music Genre
What started as a private joke has exploded into a new scene (albeit not one that many are desperate to be a part of). But what exactly do these viral songs have in common?
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Shanghai on Life: Dean Kissick Hunts Reasons for Cheer in China
There are visions of the future here that are not doomed.
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Photo courtesy of Brandon Burnett Tripsitting the Mega Rich
A cottage industry of professional drug babysitters are getting paid to watch the world’s wealthiest people lose their minds. VICE asked for their secrets.
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Pictures by Nick Dove Sunset on the Dark Enlightenment: Inside Nick Land’s San Francisco ‘Arrival Party’
At an exclusive gathering, Grimes, Curtis Yarvin, and a swarm of Silicon Valley influencers honored the doomsaying father of accelerationist philosophy. VICE was there.
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Drugs. Sex. Controversy. VICE: Members Only is a free city, far from the fussy gaze of Silicon Valley’s prudish AI censor bots.
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This painting, showing North Korean soldiers celebrating with their Russian comrades, was displayed at an exhibition in Moscow last autumn. Jointly organized by the North Korean and Russian ministries of culture, the exhibition was titled Art Exhibition of the DPRK: The Country of Great People and held at the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts to mark the 77th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK. (Credit: In the Same Trench by Kim Chang Yung.) The VICE Propaganda Report 2026
How shady forces all over the world are using images to melt your brain.
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The Last Strip Club in Miami Beach
In a city known for wild nights and barely legal everything, The Madonna’s is the only truly lawless paradise left standing.
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Narco Pilots: Watch Our New Film About Mexico’s Daredevil Drug Smugglers
They fly to earn money for drugs and sex—until they get shot down and die.
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PICTURE BY ARVIDA BYSTRÖM The Optimized Woman
Arvida Byström has teamed up with Emma Stern to design a female perfectly optimized for modern life.
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Clavicular: The ‘Jestermaxxing’ Heart Throb Who Fell Into the Hitler Trap
The streamer’s “beauty routine” includes smoking meth and hitting himself in the face with a hammer. Yet even by his standards, he’s had an eventful week.
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Pictures by Ivar Wigan A Park Despoiled: In LA, Gen Z Goths Are Making Dogging Cool Again
A mysterious cohort of young music lovers is bringing al fresco lovemaking to the hills of Elysian Park.
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THE NOT THE PHOTO ISSUE
The Epstein files. Live-streamed war. An onslaught of generative AI. Across 184 psyche-shattering pages, our special double-length spring 2026 issue asks, which images are most messing with our heads today, and why?
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All images by Dean Kissick How to Escape the 21st Century: Adam Curtis Talks to Dean Kissick
The planet’s most beguiling documentary maker and the world’s least boring art critic discuss the future of everything you ought to care about.
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All images courtesy of Arnold Putra How I Avoided Being Beaten to Death in a Myanmar Prison
Arnold Putra didn’t know blasphemy was such a big deal in Myanmar. Fortunately, he was able to bribe a cop and cover up his Buddha tattoo.
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Pictures by Tanner O’Donnell The Real-Life Replicant Hunter: The Man Who ‘Breaks’ Sex Bots
By night, Tanner O’Donnell stops AI bots ripping off your horny dad. By day, he stops them nuking the world.
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