The Special Issue

  • Tidbits

    VICE just opened a new store in New York. The address is 255 Lafayette (across from X-Large and down from Supreme) and it's got way more stuff in it than the other stores. Here are nine Tidbits we randomly grabbed from the shelves next to the...

  • Electric Independence

    Even though the hottest Now Wave acts like Fischerspooner and Chicks On Speed are being praised for re-injecting fun into electronic music, some of the best live shit I’ve seen recently wasn’t performed by humans at all. The User is a Montreal duo made...

  • Dear Diary

    I saw Ben and Ryan last night. I think I like Ben better but I'm not sure how he feels about me. Ryan and I were flirting a lot more. Then I had a dream about Christian. I don't know what to do.

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  • Barfing with a Boner

    Pornography gets you hard. The New Pornography gets you hard and makes you want to simultaneously vomit and beat someone to a pulp.

  • Calling All Bitches

    Streets hail from Vancouver, the global capital of heroin and acid. They play straight-up skate punk-rad-ass stuff to which you can drink beer, pogo, rip up ramps, or get arrested for trespassing.

  • Hell Is for Sisters

    This one goes out to all the sisters who grew up with brothers.

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  • Yakuza Noise Terror

    Yasumi Okano and Takayuki Shouji are a couple of mysterious music nerds from Oita, Japan, who describe themselves as a "tender, strange, spiritual, violent band." And as Xinlisupreme, they've built a psychosexual robot-whore composed of Merzbow's torso...

  • Off the Pig

    Japanther is one of the hardest fucking bands in Brooklyn right now. They sound like Iron Maiden, Throbbing Gristle, and Lightning Bolt gave birth to a squealing little baby with flaming guitars for arms. Their shows are chaotic and danger-charged...

  • A Note from VICE Media Group

    From the leadership at VMG

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  • Vice Fashion - The Special Issue

    Jeremy Vest, 18, from Maryland is the newest and youngest member of the How's Your News? team. A multi-instrumentalist and avid music fan, he was brought in to play drums.

  • Short Haired Wimps

    Wolfmother are three skinny indie-looking puffs from Australia who look like they can't handle their ale and only get erections every five days, and then only after taking ten Viagra, a bottle of poppers and listening to Kylie Minogue and Erasure while...

  • Sorry Guys

    Midnight Movies look like a Calvin Klein perfume ad, like if Simon Cowell designed a special ultimate post-rock group for your dad so he can relate to you more.