Piers Martin
Electric Independence
One of the coolest things about Francisco's new Music Business album on Nature-well, the coolest thing by miles, actually-is that the CD and vinyl editions turn into a board game, called Music Business, which is loosely based on Monopoly. The object of...
Electric Independence
If you've got broadband and speakers and you're not permanently masturbating yourself into a frenzy then what are you playing at?
Electric Independence
It's always a treat to hear Aphex Twin DJ, especially in unusual places. He never disappoints.
Electric Independence
All my friends who live in Berlin say you'd have to be nuts to live anywhere else.
Electric Independence
So Sónar was fun this year. Well it always is, in Barcelona. The more times you go, the more people you meet, the more you socialise and the fewer bands and DJs and installations and films and Final Scratch demonstrations you investigate.
Electric Independence
One of the best things about being a teacher is the long paid holidays you get, especially in the summer.
Electric Independence
Well, it seems kind of childish to try to muster any feelings of hate into this column when you're still trying to get your head around the news that John Peel has passed away.
15 Minutes Of Fame
The last time VICE saw Gold Chains was in March. The hairy San Franciscan sex dwarf was scampering around a thickly carpeted VIP lounge with a cordless mic in his hand.
Ne Pour Un Petit Pain
Dat Politics brilliantly contravene the European Union directive which states that all music produced in France since 1995 has to be either A: irresistibly camp filtered disco, or B: sound like the classical-synth soundtrack to an epic early 80s...
Push It Real Good
Tom Jenkinson is 26 years old. As genre-dissolving spaz-jazz drum n' bass hardcore rave-funk pioneer Squarepusher, this broad, bearded man has released something like nine albums. A few are good. A couple are dodgy. The others - including his debut...