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The Russia Issue

Bribing With Blue Jeans

Just how valuable ARE a pair of old black Levi's 550s and a fresh roll of Kleenex-brand two-ply toilet paper to today's deprived Muscovites? I recently hit the fanciest nightclubs in town to see how far I could get on the real cultural currency of...
Mark Ames
4.1.06
The Russia Issue

Grimewatch

With Roll Deep being kicked off Rinse FM, Essentials splitting up and my quest to become grime’s own JT LeRoy moving as swiftly as Sharky Major’s career, I was ready to file this month under “WASTE.”
Lil' Clarence (N7 Soulja)
4.1.06
The Russia Issue

Russian Bra Busters

I never really grasped what they meant when doctors said people who lose a limb often feel a pain where their arm or leg once was. It didn't make any sense to me.
Chris Nieratko
4.1.06
The Russia Issue

Records

You know me and joke rap. I don’t usually fuck with it. That said, if you’ve got enough perseverance to milk a joke for the length of an entire album, I’ll give you daps.
VICE Staff
4.1.06
The Russia Issue

Out There

Everybody likes to jaw on and on about indie rock and indie labels and indie magazines and indie rap (that's the worst indie), but what about indie distros?
June Sprig
4.1.06
The Russia Issue

Dooms Day Metal

Does it make any sense to even try to explain what has gone wrong with Death Metal? I see you scratching your bleached hair going "Huh!? Metal still rawks man!"
Döden
4.1.06
The Russia Issue

Wussian Wabbits

Nathalia Edenmont is a 30-year-old Russian artist who has been bashed by literally everyone for the crime of making of art with dead bunnies. She gets hate mail from militant vegans, Nazis, and even regular people who say things like: "That's not art...
Bjorn Bjork
4.1.06
The Russia Issue

Tidbits

A hundred years ago all Russians wore these primitive-looking straw slippers made by peasants in Belarus. They look like Steve Martin’s “Cruel Shoes,” but holy shit are they comfortable. They feel like you’re putting your feet into vaginas.
VICE Staff
4.1.06
The Russia Issue

Russian Cocktails

“In America, you drink vodka. But in Soviet Russia…vodka drinks you.” —Yakov Smirnoff, comic genius
W.C. Fieldsikov
4.1.06
The Russia Issue

Literary Gulag

Edward Limonov is the leader of the National-Bolsheviks Party, a radical left-wing movement that was outlawed by the Russian Supreme Court, but which has emerged as the leading opposition to President Putin. The NBP’s membership numbers in the...
Edward Liminov
4.1.06
The Russia Issue

Vice Mail

I should start this off by mentioning that I generally consider writing to publications, companies, or other abstract entities the exclusive province of dumbshits and an all-around waste of time.
VICE Staff
4.1.06
The Russia Issue

Vice Pictures - Jerry Hsu Goes To Russia

I flew into Moscow alone. After the 14-hour flight I got to stand in an immigration line for three hours while hundreds of Russians cut in front of me. They are the world’s greatest cutters.
Jerry Hsu
4.1.06
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