Tidbits

  • Bad Kids

    These first two items pretty much saved my life for a few years back in the day. One's a broken heavy-duty magnet and the other is a dollar bill with some tape on the very tip to stretch it out an extra foot. If you can't figure it out by now, you...

  • Hey Sexy

    Cat 5 cables are high-speed Ethernet cables that audiophiles twist into pretty multi-coloured braids to create sound so delicate you or me would never hear the difference. Cat5, the band, are tech nerds, but they're also girls, so they took their name...

  • Doomsday Metal

    NIFELHEIMNifelheim are planning a mini tour through Finland on January 19 to 21, and a live performance in London on February 4. There is also a split with Brazilian Vulcano, which will be "fucking grim," and a full-length album is planned...

  • Vice Fashion - The Tidbits Issue

    Photos by Taz DarlingStyling by Aldene JohnsonVincent is the lead singer from Vincent Vincent & The Villains. They've got a

  • Lesley Arfin's Tidbits

    Here are some of the volumes that I mine for "Dear Diary" material. These are all the best-looking ones. Most of the others are just marble notebooks with weird scrawlings on them that even I can't read.

  • It's A Racist, Racist World

    A good third of the Tidbits people send us have some kind of racial implications-usually black. Here're the funniest ones.

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  • Tech Nerd

    ZOOM RHYTHMTRAK RT-123This is my favorite cheap drum machine. You can program in your own patterns with not only the many different drum sounds, but also the bass and keyboard sounds. Lots of

  • Electric Independence

    The top six Electric Independence things of 2005. Break it down...VITALICOK Cowboy</bOdd: I played this to death every day up until its April release. Since then I’ve

  • Trash 'n' Treasure

    Darren plays in the band Gerling. You can finally see them again at the Big Day Out in Jan

  • Hotel Life

    APOGEE MINI-METhis is the smallest high-end input channel I can travel with. It has the same components as the big studio I have at home, but it can fit in a suitcase. Look at the knobs on

  • Games

    SHADOW THE HEDGEHOGThe doctor told me to stop playing computer games in 1999 because he said a lot of the games brought on my epilepsy and I’d just blackout if the graphics got too freaky

  • Reading Rainbow

    CRACKERSby Ed Ruscha (Heavy Industry: 1969)Ryan: "This is a rare Ed Ruscha book. It's almost like a photo flipbook. Two men go into a hotel room and make this woman lie down