Volume 8 Issue 10

Electric Independence

2K1 almost licked my balls. At least musically speaking. As the number of techno tracks selling Fords and deodorant increased, good music, it seemed, got harder to find. In a year marred with overly hyped and, in the end, unspectacular releases from...

Games

LUIGI'S MANSIONI can’t believe the same company responsible for the Super Mario series released this game as a flagship title. A new Nintendo console usually means the release of a new Mario game

Soul Survivor

Somewhere between 36 Chambers and right now, rap became infected. The majority of it went from a great place to go after punk lost its edge to a fucking Sambo jamboree. When you see Jermaine Dupri fall out of the sky and land into a gaggle of...

The Geography Of Hip Hop

THE EAST COASTThere's nothing like good old East Coast rap-gritty lyricism and sample-based music. To this day, East Coast MCs are measured against the meticulously constructed rhymes of legends like

Literary

ALICE DOLL: VOL. II’ve come to the conclusion that Japanese pop culture is inbred. They live on an island and don’t let anyone in, so their fashion and music culture is not an interesting

The Heart And Soul Of A New Machine

Bogdan Raczynski, whose musical output up to now has been some all-well-and-good skittery techno on Aphex Twin's Rephlex label, has just released a bona fide masterpiece.If Steven Spielberg had half a brain, he would have hired Bogdan to compose...

Vice Pictures

Trash Trinkets

AMANDA RAYAmanda was recently talking to Vice about the intersection of art and fashion. We assumed jewelry would be the answer. Ray spends most of her time in a dark basement working

Last Nite

Being a magazine and everything we get a lot of big record companies sending us stuff and offering us all-expenses-paid trips to interview their bands. Unfortunately, they usually want editorial for something that is already too gigantic to say...

Aids Proof

Mention sex, and the average Kenyan blushes.

Astro Boys Unite

"Takashi Murakami is an old man," says painter Tim Evans of the only animé painter/sculptor anyone has ever heard of. "There are so many of us all over the States and Japan that grew up with Astro Boy and have been working with images like these, but...

Heroin Candy

For all ye olde indie rockers jonesing for that Tiger Trap/Tuscadero-esque sound, Freezepop have arrived with your fix. They are the type of band you may want to hate at first like ABBA or The Strokes, but can't resist devouring until you have a...