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The Anti-Music Issue

The VICE Guide to Not Being in a Band - Continued

Here is the URL that we promised you in The Vice Guide to Not Being in A Band. It’s filled to the brim with educational information, tips, and tidbits to help you get out there and do something with yourself. Besides being in a band. Enjoy.
VICE Staff
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

Anarchy And Peace, Litigated

If you pick up some crap book about the history of punk rock, chances are there will be about 90 pages dedicated to Joe Strummer’s jackets but only two sentences about Crass.
Andy Capper
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

Bootlegging Inc.

In 1969, two young hippies named Ken Douglas and Dub Taylor heard some unreleased Dylan material on one of the edgier LA radio stations. The station had acquired a copy of the illicit The Basement Tapes, which were, at that time, circulating...
Miles Raymer, Jim Krewson
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

Employees Of The Month

EMA hails from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a factoid she has a hard time keeping to herself. Next time you talk to her, keep track of how often she says “Mount Rushmore,” “Sturgis,” or “Lieutenant Governor Dennis Daugaard.”
VICE Staff
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

Closed Frontier

It’s odd to think of the Wild West as something that could be “closed,” like a cardboard box or a failed department store. And yet the 1890 US Census did precisely this.
Sam McPheeters, Laura Park
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

Nap(ster) Attack!

Napster 1.0 was one of the best things that ever happened to the internet. It wasn’t just a file-sharing site where college kids stole Snoop Dogg songs. It was more a massive bazaar where anyone could access practically every kind of music ever...
Ellis Jones
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

Records

Back in the day, Saint-Saëns’s contemporaries called his work dull. Now his contemporaries are all like, “Uh...” and Saint-Saëns is all like, “What’s up, bitch?”
VICE Staff
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

Kara-not-ok

Karaoke rooms are like pressure cookers for bad behavior. Evidently, something about being locked in a confined space with a bunch of overpriced alcohol and a machine that amplifies your warbling brings out the worst in people.
Briony Wright, Natalie Nikitovic
8.1.10
The Anti-Music Issue

The Boot

Hey guys! We should all hang out like this more often!
Sam McPheeters, C. DeWitt
8.1.10
Slice of Sneaker

Janet Hansen: Giving Daft Punk, MIA and Kanye that Laser Look

Janet Hansen has sewn her lifelong passions for fashion, art, and technology together into spectacular lighted costumery that's illuminated performers like Daft Punk ...
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
8.1.10
Vice Blog

NORTH KOREAN FOOTBALL TEAM SHAMED BY DEAR LEADER

That North Korean football team just can’t catch a break. First they were caught outsourcing their hooligan needs to China, by paying actors to fill their country’s...
VBS STAFF
7.30.10
Motherboard Blog

First Mission of NASA's Highly Advanced Space Robot: Tweeting

Before NASA sends him to the International Space Station in November on one of the last Shuttle trips, "the first humanoid space traveller, Robonaut 2":http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/4/14/humanoid-space-robot-will-compete-for-jobs-on-the-space-station...
ALEX PASTERNACK
7.30.10
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