The Shit Issue
Say Hello To My Little Friend
Staking claim to the home of the original gun clap, Brooklyn's sharp shooting MCs Tek & Steele aren't about to back down on this rap game. They're known for spitting rounds in underground anthems like "Super Brooklyn" and "Get Up" (from Lyricist Lounge...
Sound Of The Pirates
Saturday night, February 24. A sweaty underground club in the UK heaves with an impatient crowd waiting for Kosheen, the live/vocal drum and bass act that, like every new talent, has been hailed as "the one that will save drum and bass." A quick scan...
Vice Comics
KAZ GIRLS, MAMMY SOMBRERO P.H.D., THE STACKS, MAGIC BOY, PIP AND NORTON, CAMPFIRE STORIES
Oh-oh-eye-oh-oh
Yoshimi's the coolest. Besides her already legendary drum/trumpet/howling work with Japanese noise band The Boredoms and the art-rock supergroup Free Kitten, Yoshimi fronts an all-girl band called OOIOO (say it like: "Oh-oh-eye-oh-oh") that started...
Dream Weaver
VICE: When did your studio burn down?Min Kim: Last March. I had been having a lot of fire dreams right before that and they were influencing my work.
Beats And Rhymes
Before we get started, I have to repeat: CDs are lame. Please don't send them to me, it's too much work. All right.Spoon is the sickest rapper in the world. "Anti-Christ" is fucking nuts. Pick it up right now on Mary Joy Records or we'll have to...
The Return Of New York City
Street walkers, street style, street beat, street crime - street life in general - disappeared with the streets.New York City has been without a sound for years now, but just when we'd given up
The Road To Euphoria
There were thirty thousand tabs of Ecstasy in three clear plastic bags on the coffee table between us.
Don't Baise Me, Kill Me
"You must push everything to the absolute limit, or else life will be boring."
Ne Pour Un Petit Pain
Dat Politics brilliantly contravene the European Union directive which states that all music produced in France since 1995 has to be either A: irresistibly camp filtered disco, or B: sound like the classical-synth soundtrack to an epic early 80s...